NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

Okunbor: I don’t miss life Down Under.. all I want to do is get fit and healthy come January then nail down a place in the Kerry team

- PAT NOLAN

STEFAN OKUNBOR says it'll be full steam ahead in 2023 after a stop-start first season with Kerry.

It emerged in September of last year that Okunbor was parking his AFL ambitions with Geelong after three years as he returned home for a reunion with newly-appointed Kerry senior boss Jack O'Connor (inset), who had worked with him at underage level.

But, while he was part of the squad as they completed a clean sweep of League, Munster and All-Ireland titles, he only saw game time in the McGrath Cup as injuries dogged him.

It was all too familiar after his stint in Australia.

"Well, out of the three years I'd say I spent two of them on the physio table," he says of his time Down Under. "I was three years in and let's say I wasn't exactly kicking the lights out.