In the days that followed their final success over Galway at Croke Park on Sunday, August 4th, Anna Galvin and her Kingdom colleagues were able to get a full sense of what winning this year’s TG4 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship has truly meant to the people of Kerry.
The day after ending their 31-year wait to collect the Brendan Martin Cup for the 12th time, the Kerry squad embarked on a prolonged tour of the Kingdom’s various towns, villages and clubs.
The likes of Knocknagoshel (home of veteran midfielder Lorraine Scanlon), Castleisland and Killarney were amongst the spots that the team called to at the beginning of the week, but it was never going to be possible to fit every place into a single journey.
Following a trip to North Kerry on Tuesday to give winning captain Niamh Carmody of Finuge/St Senan's a fitting homecoming, the squad eventually found themselves passing through a number of locations in West Kerry on Wednesday.