London's Chris Farley hoping to finish with a flourish

London's Chris Farley is in the fairly unique position of knowing that his county career is over before he’s even played his final game.

Those sort of decisions are usually taken on the back of a championship exit, but Farley has three games minimum left with the Exiles in the Tailteann Cup over the coming weeks and then he’s checking out.

The Kerry native is heading back to Ireland and he’s not expecting a call from fellow Dromid Pearses man and current Kingdom boss Jack O’Connor - so that will be that.

It’s been a relatively short inter-county career for Farley having spent just two years in Michael Maher’s panel, but it’s been an experience he will cherish as he prepares to finish out his playing days with his club.

"I actually didn’t have aspirations of county football I took it season by season and ended up in London and got the call and I said 'you know you have to try it like'," he said.

The 30-year-old actually headed off to England to escape the rigours of football, but life has a way of working out differently than planned.

"I moved over to London to take a break from football and it’s after turning into the opposite, but once I got the call I said I couldn’t pass up the chance to play county football, especially with London because it is so different.

"You’re playing with lads from all over the country and you have the London born lads as well. I’m sure it’s the same with New York, there is something different about it."

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"I was living in South Kerry, not much going on,