We felt it would take a great side to beat us and that's the way it worked out.

I think it???s clear that there is an obvious difference between colleges football and inter-county football, and Cork will certainly be a far tougher test than what we have met so far, even a good deal tougher than Waterford.

When a team gets to a final, victory is more important than performance, ... But we want to extend the Kerry tradition of playing quality football and winning with style.

West Hartford has a very good team. If you're a bad guy you probably want to move over to Hartford.

It's just like any sport or any skill - once you've been in the business a while, you've gone to the same range doing the same skill over and over, they grow stale.

I've absolutely no doubt that it will be a very difficult negotiation.

We did our best in training to recreate that sense of intensity, but you couldn't replicate the battle out there, nor the ones that Tyrone had already been through against Armagh and Dublin.

We turned over ball a few times which cost us scores, but the goal gave them the momentum that we could never quite get back, ... A seriously important moment.

It does appear that progress is being made, that the possibility of pay talks is beginning to feature on the horizon again.