If there is bad blood between Kerry and Tyrone, then it does not fester between Paul Galvin and Peter Canavan.
Ahead of Tyrone's Ulster Championship with Derry, Galvin used his Sunday Times column to recall his own experiences of the county whose adamantine backbone formed the greatest Gaelic football rivalry of the 2000s.
Galvin reveals in the column that Peter Canavan played a massive role in developing Galvin's career:
Tyrone have played a central part in my own career for better or worse. I've won more than lost against them but the losses were sore. The first time I played against a Tyrone team was at schools under-16 level and after the game Peter Canavan sought me out to tell me one day I would play for my county.
At the time I had no ambition to play for Kerry but I never forgot that.
A nice gesture from Canavan, although not all of his Tyrone teammates have been as kind to the Kerryman:
You can read Galvin's full column in today's Sunday Times.
