DARRAGH HAMMERS SEAGULLS - AND US

I'VE LOST my voice screaming at the television here trying to find out what on earth was going on all through the second half at Croker.

- BY DEREK FOLEY

We had RTÉ here for the locals, yer man from Laois, your wan' from Liverpool and the guy with the baseball cap from Hong Kong.

All of us wondering were Kerry and Donegal playing different rules?

Kerry were kicking two-pointers through the first half, indeed Darragh Maloney was in thrall as David Clifford pulled successive triggers.

"This is the first two-pointer in an All-Ireland final," he noted just before the 10th minute.

And then as the next score was another: "This is for two again, that's great from David Clifford, it is just what you'd expect.”

A little later he was even more cryptic about it: "Who said 'Hammer the Hammer?'" before Clifford, taking his time, executed a perfect two-pointer on halftime, the poise, the timing, the patience... the beauty.