Regardless of the time of year, there is something compelling when old rivals Dublin and Kerry cross paths.
A bitterly cold and wet week in February will be illuminated by the latest instalment of the GAA’s most prestigious fixture.
Even the all-consuming talk around the new rules are likely to be parked for a little while in Tralee tonight. Very little tangible is on the line, yet the post-mortems will be thorough, with conclusions drawn and evidence to be used right up until the business end of the season.
There is a growing sense, through a combination of a huge changing of the guard in Dublin and Kerry’s failure to land more than one All-Ireland title in the last decade, that this game has been…