When Mick O’Dwyer made his championship debut for Kerry in 1957, some said he drove to the game in a Buick. Others who were part of the South Kerry contingent heading to the game in Dungarvan insisted it was a Baby Ford. “Micko was a man for the Babys,” Ned Fitzgerald would tell the authors of Princes of Pigskin, Joe Ó Muircheartaigh and TJ Flynn.  There was something fitting in these recollections of O’Dwyer’s Kerry debut centring around cars.   After he left the Kerry role, the image of O’Dwyer driving across the country from Waterville to Kildare, Laois or Wicklow…

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