Tom O’Sullivan has regained fitness ahead of Kerry’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Dublin on Sunday.

The Dingle defender has resumed full training after coming off with a calf injury in the Kingdom’s Munster SFC semi-final win over Clare at the end of April. However, All-Star goalkeeper Shane Ryan looks set to miss out once again after suffering a setback in his recovery from a quad problem.

“Tom is fine. He’s back training fully,” Kerry manager Jack O’Connor told reporters at this week’s press event.

“Shane Ryan is doing bits. He’s not fully at it yet so we’ll see how he’s going this coming week. Shane aggravated it a bit, so that’s why he was out of the panel the last day.”

O’Connor is refusing to underestimate a Dublin team whose fortunes have been transformed since Ger Brennan returned to the sideline after serving a controversial 12-week ban.

“They still have huge quality in that team, those players didn’t become bad players overnight,” he maintained.

“They still have lads with five or six All-Ireland medals. Kilkenny, Con O’Callaghan, Scully, Paddy Small, Costello, Basquel, Bugler, Howard, Davy Byrne and these fellas — they still have huge experience in that group.

“They obviously struggled with injuries and the suspension to Ger Brennan obviously didn’t help. So I always felt that if they got their men back and got on a bit of a run, they were going to be highly dangerous. You don’t lose that quality. The store of experience and know-how is in their DNA. You don’t lose that.”

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