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AUSTIN Stacks and Kerins O’Rahillys will know their opposition for the quarter finals of the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SFC on Saturday afternoon. The quarter final draw will be made live on Radio Kerry at 2:30pm with the eight remaining teams going into the hat. The winners from last weekend’s Round […]

STAND OUT performances by young Kerins O’Rahillys players in the Senior County Championship have earned them a call up for Kerry sides. After impressing for O’Rahillys and the Kerry U21s this year, Jack Savage has been called into the Kerry senior training panel as they prepare for an All-Ireland quarter […]

THE memory of a former Austin Stacks player was to the fore on Saturday for the Trevor Barrett Memorial Hurling Tournament. Despite the late withdrawal of the Laochra Og team from Cork and the shortage of some players on the Dr. Crokes and Causeway teams due to other commitments, the […]

Crotta came a cropper yesterday at the hands of Lixnaw in the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SHC game watched by Mike O’Halloran… Lixnaw 4-8 Crotta O’Neills 1-8  Lixnaw overcame the challenge of their near neighbours in the rain and wind swept arena that was Austin Stack Park on Sunday afternoon. Goals […]

Mike O’Halloran was at an entertaining Kerry SHC tie in Austin Stack Park on Sunday between Abbeydorney and champions Kilmoyley… Abbeydorney 0-20 Kilmoyley 0-16 Abbeydorney dispatched the champions Kilmoyley to the quarter-finals – where they will play Lixnaw – with a well deserved four point victory after extra time. This […]

Gavin O’Connor saw Kerins O’Rahillys give a dominant performance in the Kerry SFC match against Killarney Legion in Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday afternoon… Kerins O’Rahillys 3-12 Killarney Legion 2-12 A LATE Legion goal at the death put a different reflection on this match  that had looked to be over as contest early […]

Ballyduff’s late flourish put an end to Ballyheigue’s valiant efforts in the Kerry SHC tie at Lerrig yesterday, watched by Mike O’Halloran… Ballyheigue 0-14 Ballyduff 2-13 Round 2B of The Garveys Supervalu Senior Hurling Championship ended in a win for Ballyduff, but the real story of this game was the great […]

Mike O’Halloran saw St Brendan’s show their title contending credentials against Causeway in Lerrig yesterday… St Brendan’s Ardfert 3-19 Causeway 1-16 A complete display of hurling at its finest saw St Brendan’s advance in Round 2A of the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship. St Brendan’s who played into a […]

Gavin O’Connor reports on Austin Stacks’ win over West Kerry at Austin Stack Park tonight… Austin Stacks 0-21 West Kerry 1-13 (16) AUSTIN STACKS made into the quarter-finals of the Garveys Supervalu Senior Football County Championship after an open encounter with West Kerry in Austin Stack Park on Saturday evening. […]

OVER 70 boys and girls took part in the GAA Cúl Camp in Kerins O’Rahillys over this week. Young footballers between the ages of 6 and 12 honed their skills at the camp where the kids learned the basics of the games with the standard high among many of the […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the do or die clash between Kerins O’Rahillys and Killarney Legion in Round 3 of the Garveys Supervalu Kerry SFC  in Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday (3.30pm)…  WHEN the draw was made for Round 3, Kerins O’Rahilly’s were pitted against the last team they might have wanted […]

THIS week the GAA’s Cúl Camp came to Connolly Park bringing with it a Kerry star. The numbers attending are up on last year with around 130 boys and girls taking part in the camp which ran all the way from Monday through to Friday. The camp provides kids with a tracksuit top, a […]

THIS afternoon it was confirmed that Colm Cooper damaged shoulder ligaments in last Sunday’s Munster Final victory over Tipperary, meaning he’s a doubt for Kerry’s All-Ireland quarter final on August bank holiday weekend. A lot will be made of the battle with time Cooper will face in the coming weeks, […]

Gavin O’Connor look at the Austin Stacks v West Kerry, Garveys Supervalu Senior Football County Championship Round 3 match at Austin Stack Park, Saturday 6:45pm AFTER a poor performance against South Kerry in the Round 2 replay in Connolly Park in May, the Round 3 draw was kind to Austin […]

THE Kerry minors made it three in a row Munster titles yesterday in a sun-drenched Fitzgerald Stadium. Six points was the difference in the end as the Kingdom beat Cork  3-14 to 3-8 with David Clifford the star of the show, netting one and setting up goals for Bryan Sweeney […]

GARDAI in Tralee unearthed a cannabis growhouse at Riverwalk, Oakpark last Thursday. A man of Eastern European extraction was arrested at the scene after cannabis plants worth €21,000 were discovered. The man is being held in custody at Cork prison and will appear at a sitting of Tralee District Court […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at some of the talking points from yesterday’s match, plus some of our action photos from the game… 1. Appetite for football is massive among Kerry fans Despite the absence of traditional rivals Cork, Kerry fans were not deterred from travelling for another sunny Munster Final in […]

WELL that was unexpected. Not the result of the senior game, we’re talking about the fine weather which no doubt provided a huge boost to the attendance yesterday in Killarney. Cloud and showers were predicted, but Killarney was bathed in sunshine and they’ll be a few red heads around today among […]

Mike O’Halloran watched the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SHC First Round replay at Austin Stack Park on Sunday evening… Abbeydorney 3-13 Crotta O’Neills 0-10 AT the launch of the Garvey’s SuperValu sponsored Kerry Senior Hurling Championship a few weeks ago Abbeydorney were tipped, along with Causeway to be potential winners of the […]

Gavin O’Connor says the build-up to tomorrow’s Munster Final between Kerry and Tipperary has been flat and it’s difficult to see where the fizz will come from on the field of play… IT’S hard to remember a more flat build-up for a Munster Final. In the midst of Euro 2016 action, […]

  THE Kerry Senior Football Team to play Tipperary in the Munster Senior Football Final at Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday is unchanged from the side that started against Clare in the semi final. In the subs, Aidan O’Mahony returns after suspension and James O’Donoghue returns to the match day squad […]

THE Kerry minor team to face Cork this Sunday in the Munster Final has been announced and features two players from the Tralee area on the starting line-up. The game is the opening game of the day at at Fitzgerald Stadium at 12 noon and the team shows one change from the […]

Gavin O’Connor watched Kerry win three in a row Munster Junior football titles at Austin Stack Park last night… Kerry 0-14 Cork 0-13 THEY were made sweat a little, but a one point victory over Cork was enough to ensure three-in-a-row Munster Juinor titles for Kerry at Austin Stack Park on […]

TRALEE area clubs are well represented on the Kerry Junior Football team to face Cork in the Munster Championship Final this Wednesday evening in Austin Stack Park (7.30pm). There are four changes in personnel from the side that defeated Limerick in the semi final. Na Gaeil’s Andrew Barry starts in the […]

Mike O’Halloran watched Kilmoyley easily get the better of Ballyduff in the Garveys Supervalu Kerry SHC first round game at Abbeydorney on Sunday… Kilmoyley 2-18 Ballyduff 0-18 I SAID in my preview that it had to be “now or not for a while” for Ballyduff and after their efforts against the […]

Ballyheigue were trounced by a rampant St Brendans side yesterday in Abbeydorney. Mike O’Halloran reports on the Kerry SHC first round clash… St Brendan’s 5-20 Ballyheigue 0-7 St Brendan’s were four points up after 50 seconds when Nicky O’Sullivan goaled from an error by the Ballyheigue keeper. Ten minutes later they […]

Mike O’Halloran watched a tough Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry SHC first round match in Kilmoyley last night… Causeway 2-8 Lixnaw 0-12 Causeway – who lined out without their star man Colum Harty, who hasn’t played since the game against Westmeath in the league – made a winning start to this years Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Ballyduff for the Garveys Supervalu Kerry SHC first round match between Abbeydorney and Crotta O’Neills on Saturday night… Abbeydorney 2-16 Crotta O’Neills 0-22 (after extra time) Extra time was the last thing most neutrals wanted to see in this game played in Ballyduff, such was the […]

THE  remarkable power of the GAA is showing its strength all over the county this weekend with the Féile na nÓg tournament. The games are reaching their climax today but last night it was a time to get together for a parade of the clubs through some of the host […]

Causeway will have to be at their best to overcome Lixnaw in the Garveys Supervalu Kerry SHC first round game on Sunday says Mike O’Halloran… Causeway and Lixnaw play the twilight game on Sunday in Lerrig, Causeway have come off a win in the 2015 County League where they defeated […]