The allure of silverware will always be enough to motivate Kerry, but today’s Munster SFC final showdown against Cork carries a bit more weight.<\/p>\n
The provincial championship’s cup has been named after the late, great P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9, who won 11 Munster titles in his playing days.<\/p>\n
For captain Paul Geaney, who is married to P\u00e1id\u00ed’s daughter Si\u00fan, it undeniably adds more weight to the occasion.<\/p>\n
“It’s a huge privilege for the \u00d3 S\u00e9 family and P\u00e1id\u00ed,” he told RT\u00c9 Sport.<\/p>\n
“Would you give up 11 medals to get your name on the cup forevermore? Immortalised.<\/p>\n
“It just speaks to the volumes of the character that he was and the player that he was and the manager he was and what he brought to the GAA as a whole.<\/p>\n
“We’ve always wanted to take care of the back yard and I don’t think it’s any extra incentive, but it’s a nice touch.”<\/p>\n
As for the challenge Cork will pose, Geaney is on alert.<\/p>\n
“It’s very exciting,” he said. “Cork are going well and yeah, we’re going well enough as such but probably a little bit disjointed over the last while. We haven’t really had a settled team so it’s made it a little bit difficult in that sense, but we still have enough quality there to hopefully get over the line.<\/p>\n
“It won’t be easy and Cork are coming up with the tails up, no doubt, having got back into Division 1 and they’ll definitely fancy their chances so we’ll have to be at our peak.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be nice, there’s no doubt about that. I love Munster finals, I love playing against Cork as well so I’m really looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n
Marc \u00d3 S\u00e9, a nephew of P\u00e1id\u00ed’s, has 10 Muster winners’ medals to his name.<\/p>\n
He’ll be watching the action at Fitzgerald Stadium with a sense of anticipation and pride.<\/p>\n
“We’re chuffed as a family, hugely proud of what P\u00e1id\u00ed achieved and it’s nice now that he’s being remembered with the Munster Championship Cup being named after him,” said \u00d3 S\u00e9.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, your thoughts would go to P\u00e1id\u00ed himself – I’d say P\u00e1id\u00ed would probably think the Sam Maguire Cup should be named after him! But it’s a lovely moment and it’s something that we as a family, as I say again, are very proud of.”<\/p>\n
\u00d3 S\u00e9 is hopeful the opportunity to lift the newly named cup will drive Kerry to deliver a big performance today as the impact of one of the county’s favourite sons continues to resonate.<\/p>\n
“Every player has their own angle that they use and you’d like to think that maybe they might use that angle to get them over the line,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately, it’s Kerry and Cork and I think both teams bring out the best in each other anyway. So, I don’t think you need any extra motivation to get up for this game, I think it will be a game where it will really go down to the wire.<\/p>\n
“Cork are really coming and I think Kerry have a few injuries so I think we’ll have a real tight affair, maybe like the old Munster Championship games used to be played, especially when P\u00e1id\u00ed was playing them.<\/p>\n
“Cork always like to travel to Killarney so hopefully we’ll have a good day and hopefully a Kerry victory.”<\/p>\n
Watch Kerry v Cork in the Munster Football final (1.45pm) and Roscommon v Galway in the Connacht Football final (4.15pm) on Sunday from 1.15pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app and listen to Sunday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1.<\/p>\n
Watch The Saturday Game and The Sunday Game from 9.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on all matches on the RT\u00c9 News app and on rte.ie\/sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The allure of silverware will always be enough to motivate Kerry, but today’s Munster SFC final showdown against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-441528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}