There have been a lot of Kerry accents heard on Monday mornings in the environs of Capel Street in Dublin these past six months.

Dingle today followed in the footsteps of West Kerry neighbours An Ghaeltacht (last week) and the Kerry senior team (last July) this Monday morning.

All three made Hugh Hourican’s establishment on Capel Street the first pitstop on the pilgrimage home to the Kingdom.

That great Kerry tradition started by Páidí Ó Sé of visiting the Boar’s Head has become a regular occurrence with these new Gaelic football rules.

Some Dingle heads looked frazzled this morning but the euphoria of winning one of the most memorable club finals of all time hadn’t abated. All of Dingle had been in Copper Face Jack’s the previous night, or so it seemed.

There were rousing renditions of ‘Pink Pony Club’, James Blunt’s ‘1973’, Apollo 440’s ‘Stop The Rock’

One of the topics of conversation was the surreal final moments of the game, where the officials ushered the celebrating Dingle players off the pitch because of an infraction.

Referee Martin McNally had pinged St Brigid’s for an infraction on the kickout that followed Mikey Geaney’s winner.

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The result seemed to be a formality but Dingle still had a scoreable free to kick.

Regardless, Paul Geaney was taking no risks.

A number of Dingle players said their captain kicked the free well wide of the goalposts in order to avoid the ball hitting the posts and coming back into play.

It’s proof of just how savvy Dingle’s game management was, even in the endgame.

Mark O’Connor’s ‘full circle’ moment

We spoke to Mark O’Connor about meeting up with former Geelong teammate Zach Tuohy, as well as his other three teammates after the win. O’Connor said the occasion was bittersweet for Tuohy, who also chased the Andy Merrigan Cup with Portlaoise.

“It was bittersweet for Zach but he was very much a Dingle man yesterday.”

He also described winning the club All-Ireland with his teammates as “full-circle” moment.

O’Connor heads back to Melbourne on Wednesday with memories from this club campaign that will last a lifetime.

With his comments after the march suggesting a return to Kerry some time in the future, perhaps we’ll see Mark O’Connor outside the Boars Head again in the not too distant future.