Jack O’Connor doesn’t quibble with the idea that this year’s All-Ireland final looked to have mattered a bit more around the county. He supplied the context.
“For whatever reason, this one seemed to mean a bit more to Kerry people than some of the others. From where we were six weeks out from the final, after the Meath game.”
The now five-time winning manager was speaking after being named the Football Personality of the Year by the Gaelic Writers’ Association, supported by Dalata Hotel Group.
It has been a wonderful, redemptive year for O’Connor, who at the start of what looked his final season had difficulty even assembling a management team.
By the end, everything had been achieved: league, Munster, All-Ireland – and the imminent Footballer of the Year award all but secured.
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