Dublin 0-11 Kerry 1-14
Kerry took the Spring Series spoils at Croke Park with a convincing Allianz Football League Division 1 win over All-Ireland champions Dublin.
A crowd of 45,838 turned up to watch a repeat of last September's dramatic All-Ireland final, and this time it was the Kingdom who triumphed, despite a first-half horror show which saw them shoot 12 wides.
Darran O'Sullivan's 55th minute goal was the crucial score, while Brian Sheehan's eight points tally also made a massive contribution.
Dublin manager Pat Gilroy will want to get the Brogan brothers back on board as soon as possible for his side lacked a cutting edge up front, with only Kevin McManamon and Tomas Quinn making an appreciable impact.
It was in the second half that Kerry pushed for home, having turned around at the break trailing by two points and badly needing some inspiration.
That came from the right boot of Sheehan, who found the range from frees and play to guide his side to a positive start to their Division One campaign.
Kerry got into their stride with familiar comfort in the early stages, opening up a three-point lead, with two Bryan Sheehan efforts and a neat point from James O'Donoghue.
Kevin McManamon led the Dublin charge, thumping over his side's opener in the ninth minute, before Mossie Quinn followed up with a converted free.
The men from the Kingdom were always able to keep their noses in front, with O'Donoghue clipping over a free, and Barry John Keane angling over a neat score to cancel out Bryan Cullen's 17th minute score.
But Kerry lost their scoring touch and squandered a succession of opportunities with some wayward shooting, hitting a dozen wides in the first half alone.
Quinn claimed his second free, and a superb McManamon score from wide on the left lifted Dublin spirits as the sides went level in the 23rd minute.
Kerry's finishing went from bad to worse as the wides count slipped into double figures.
And Pat Gilroy's side capitalised late on when Quinn launched a superb effort from distance, before All-Ireland final hero Stephen Cluxton stepped forward to send a '45 sailing between the posts for a 0-07 to 0-05 first half lead.
Diarmuid Connolly's superb pass sent up a goal chance for McManamon, but he couldn't keep his shot down as he brought his tally to three.
Kerry rediscovered the scoring touch with Sheehan powering through the middle to pop over a point, and he leveled it up at 0-08 each on 47 minutes after Michael Fitzsimons then picked up a booking by illegally halting a spectacular Darran O'Sullivan run.
Sheehan's accuracy from play and placed balls provided a stark contrast to his colleague's first half profligacy as he steered over another free to regain the lead on 49 minutes.
And Darran O'Sullivan grabbed the goal he had been threatening in the 55th minute, arriving at pace to collect Patrick Curtin's perfectly timed pass to finish superbly past Cluxton.
With Tomás O Sé probing from the back, the Kingdom moved with purpose, putting together some slick moves, with Barry John Keane stretching their advantage with a neat point from a tight angle.
Eamon Fennell had been on the field for just a couple of minutes when he received a straight red card for a high challenge on Sheehan.
Dublin scorers: T Quinn 0-04 (3f), K McManamon 0-03, S Cluxton 0-02 (1f, 1 '45), D Connolly, B Cullen 0-01 each.
Kerry scorers: D O'Sullivan 1-00, B Sheehan 0-08 (5f), J O'Donoghue (2f), BJ Keane 0-03 each.
Dublin: S Cluxton, M Fitzsimons, Rory O'Carroll, P McMahon, J McCarthy, G Brennan, C Dyas, P Brogan, K McManamon, B Cullen, D Connolly, E O'Gara, T Quinn.
Subs: P Flynn for Brogan, K Nolan for Fitzsimons, E Fennell for Ross McConnell, D Kelly for O'Gara, S Murray for Macauley
Kerry: B Kealy, S Enright, M O Se, P Crowley, T O Se, K Young, B Maguire, S Scanlon, B Sheehan, P Galvin, D O'Sullivan, S O'Sullivan, J O'Donoghue, K Donaghy, BJ Keane.
Subs: A Maher for Scanlon, P Curtin for S O'Sullivan, D O'Callaghan for D O'Sullivan, A O'Mahony for Crowley, D Bohan for Keane
Referee: M Deegan (Laois)
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