Yes, this was a kick in the teeth for Barrs .. but every team must learn from it

GARRY DOYLE

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JIM GAVIN is associated, in the public mind, with glory and humiliation.

The former came in waves - five in a row, a dynasty, an era. The latter arrived in a single soundbite, a sitting Taoiseach effectively flinging a coach under a political bus.

Yet what may prove to be his most enduring legacy lies not in Sam Maguires or soundbites but in a quiet revolution - a rewriting of Gaelic football's rulebook, an attempt to rescue a sport that was edging towards tactical suffocation.

And then came Sunday's Munster SFC club final.

A game of scale and promise reduced, in the end, to a whistle and a judgement. St Finbarr's chasing air, Dingle gifted oxygen. Referee Chris Maguire adjudged that Dylan White had illegally prevented the taking of a quick free.