In January 2003, the then Kerry manager, Páidí Ó Sé described his job from the point of view of the expectations of his supporters. “Being a Kerry manager is probably the hardest job in the world because Kerry people, I’d say, are the roughest type of fucking animals you could ever deal with.”  It was a famous moment of plain speaking, a moment so brilliantly captured by Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh as nothing more than “winter talk”. Paidi would subsequently explain what he meant in language which was a little bit, I suppose, more corporate than the original. “What I meant…

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