Kerry’s hopes of reaching the All-Ireland SFC final have suffered a double blow with the news that Tom O’Sullivan and Diarmuid O’Connor will miss Saturday’s semi-final against Tyrone through injury.

All-Star defender O’Sullivan has failed to recover from the calf muscle injury he sustained in the first half of the Kingdom’s sensational quarter-final win over Armagh, while midfielder O’Connor is ruled out with a shoulder problem. Kerry are also planning without ACL victim Barry Dan O’Sullivan for the remainder of the season.

“Barry Dan obviously is gone for the season, and Diarmuid is unavailable as well. Tom won’t be available for this game either. It’s a calf injury. They’re all losses,” Kerry manager Jack O’Connor told a press briefing yesterday.

“I think all the others are on their way back in some shape or form. Tony Brosnan is back training, that’s all I’ll say, and any fella back training has a chance.

“We’ve had a bad run with injuries. It was only afterwards that I was thinking about it, but we were down anything up to seven starters the last day. I don’t think any team in the country could ship that kind of attrition and try and survive.”

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