Victory for Kerry in Sunday's TG4 All-Ireland football final will see them move top of the roll of honours list on 12 titles.
And yet, the women from the Kingdom are in the middle of a prolonged period where the game's ultimate prize has eluded them.
You have to go back to 1993 for their last All-Ireland, and in the mean time neighbours Cork have become a dominant force, claiming 11 titles of their own to join Kerry at the top of the roll of honour.
"It's been 30 years and that's a very long time down in Kerry when you see the success the men have had and the success the ladies had before that," says captain Siofra O'Shea.
"You see some of those players around that had success 30 years ago like Mary Jo Curran and Mary Lane and them. They'd be at all our games.
"Geraldine O'Shea is in our management team and has her All-Ireland medal in the back pocket. They're a great inspiration for us but we've been working for the last four years with our management team and we're trying to write our own bit of history and win for our group"
How does O'Shea explain it?
"I can't really speak for the few years after when I wasn't even born myself," the 21-year-old reasonably points out.
"But in the last 10 years or so there hasn't been the right stability and structures in place. They had multiple managers from the 2012 All-Ireland. They got to that All-Ireland and lost and they've had so many managers since then.
"I don't think you could even count it on one hand how many managers they had in that spell. When you don't have that structure you don't have the same style of play year in, year out.
"Girls are probably stepping away from the team and there's no hope there for them and they don't think they can achieve success. But then to see Darragh [Long] and Declan [Quill] come in and the new approach they brought and the positivity and belief they brought into the team.
"From the start we believed and I suppose they probably knew it was going to take a few years but they always had that belief in us that they would get there so I think that's the difference. Everyone now believes and we go into each game believing we can win."
And it's that progress that has them back where Kerry football followers would feel the team should be - going into an All-Ireland final with a strong chance.
They face a Dublin side they've beaten twice in 2023 - in league and in championship - and while Sunday's game will be a different kettle, that belief and confidence is in the players once more.
And they will look to build on the experience gained in making it all the way to the final last year, before ultimately coming up short against Meath, to get the job done at Croke Park.
"I suppose we had a great start to that final but we faded towards the end of it," O'Shea adds.
"We were disappointed with ourselves. We watched that game back at the start of this year and we've parked it, but it's been in the back of our minds since as a motivating factor.
"We've parked the disappointment but our goal at the start of the year was to get back there and to go one step further and that's what our aim is."
It's a bittersweet build up for O'Shea.
She did her ACL in training before the victory over Mayo in the All-Ireland semi-final. It's the second such injury she has suffered in three years, although this time it was her left knee, having done the right one in a league game against Wexford in 2021.
As captain though the Caherdaniel woman is trying to contribute in whatever way she can on Sunday.
"I wasn't expecting to hear that it was a cruciate," she admits.
"The next morning I got the news. It’s gutting. I was very disappointed when I heard it. But your focus turns then to the team.
"I told the girls but I wanted full focus to be on the Mayo game because we couldn’t lack any focus or any distractions for that game might have caused disruption.
"For the semi-final I was in the dressing room beforehand, then just out with the extended girls on the panel. We have 36 players on the team so we're all looking forward to the game whether you on the team, the subs or the extended panel, we all have some bit of a role.
"I felt I was going good but we've built such a strong panel over the last four years, you saw the impact Danielle O’Leary had in the semi-final Against Mayo, she was unbelievable. We have players who can step up to the mark. Hopefully they can do the job the next day."
