Kerry manager Mark Bourke relieved after ‘topsy-turvy' win over Cork, as Emma Costello re-joins squad
Emma Costello, a 2023 All Star nominee who took time out in 2024, has re-joined the Kerry panel, with manager Mark Bourke describing the Firies woman as 'a Rolls Royce of a player'
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Mark Bourke might have donned Arthur Daley's best sheepskin coat and trilby at half time and puffed on a Cuban cigar before strolling into the dressing room and declaring - 'easy, innit?'
He didn't of course. The Na Gaeil man is the polar opposite to the George Cole car salesman character in the old TV series Mindar (older readers will remember), but he would have been forgiven if he had done so as throughout the first half of the Munster LGFA SFC round one game in Cloughduv, Kerry played the type of football that Bourke wants them to. And had run up a handsome 11-point lead at the interval.
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