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  TICKET information has been released for Kerry’s All-Ireland Semi-Final against Tyrone in Croke Park on August 23. Prices as follows… Hogan Stand (No Concession) – €40 Cusack Stand – €40 Hill 16 – €25 Tickets  go on public sale at Austin Stack Park next Tuesday, August 18 at 2pm. […]

  CURRENTLY embroiled in a bit of controversy, the Tyrone senior team showed their lighter side by supporting the Kentucky Rose who has strong Tyrone connections. Midfielder Colm Kavanagh tweeted a team photo showing their support for Kentucky Rose, Emily Hughes, who is the daughter of 70’s Tyrone player, Micky Hughes. […]

  IN what has become regular feature of Darragh Ó Sé’s articles in the Irish Times, he has made another statement this week that that will have you cracking up. While analysing Joe Brolly’, character he conjures up an image involving the Dalai Lama and the Derry man, that hits the nail […]

Gavin O’Connor describes how Kerins O’Rahilly’s won last night’s Acorn Life Kerry Under 21 County Championship Final against East Kerry in Castleisland (plus loads of action photos below)… Kerins O’Rahillys 2-15 East Kerry 2-9 KERINS O’RAHILLY’s upset the odds with barnstorming performance in U21 county championship final to defeat hot favorites […]

  Mike O’Halloran looks forward to the Garveys Supervalu Kerry SHC clash between St Brendan’s and Causeway in Kilmoyley this Sunday at 6.30pm… St Brendan’s will take on Causeway in the quarter final in Kilmoyley on Sunday evening. This is a game which will see the battle of the cousins […]

  KERINS O’Rahilly’s are celebrating tonight after beating East Kerry in the Acorn Life Kerry Under 21 Championship Final. If you weren’t there, then the people at Sideline Eye have uploaded highlights of the match to the Kerry GAA website via the Sideline Eye YouTube Channel so you can watch the […]

Gavin O’Connor was in Castleisland this evening to see Kerins O’Rahillys win the Acorn Life Kerry U21 County Championship Final… Kerins O’Rahilly’s  2-15 (21) East Kerry 2-9 (15) It was an evening to savour for the blue side of Tralee with their side putting in an incredible performance against a hotly fancied […]

Gavin O’Connor looks ahead to this evening’s Acorn Life Kerry U21 County Championship, Kerins O’Rahilly’s v East Kerry, Castleisland, 6.30pm… KERINS O’RAHILLY’S will attempt to win their first U21 County Championship in the club’s long and storied history. The competition is notoriously difficult to win for club sides and it’s no […]

TWO old foes will face off again in Croke Park once more to renew a once bitter rivalry. When Tyrone defeated, Monaghan, on Saturday it threw up an August 23 semi-final meeting with Kerry. Not surprisingly the rivalry that defined football in the last decade was the talk of Twitter… Kerry v […]

  Stephen Brosnan has a Q&A session with John Mitchels Clubman, Declan Connolly, about his involvement in the club and his memories of playing… Declan Connolly Role: Manager, John Mitchel’s Under 10 Boy’s Playing Career: Juvenile Player to under 16. (Q): Which players/club personality did you look up to as a […]

  A MITCHELS man captained Kerry to a 16th All-Ireland Junior title after they gave a masterclass of football in Croke Park this afternoon to beat Mayo by 2-18 to 0-10. Alan O’Donoghue, who had a stormer of a game for the Kingdom, lifted the cup to the cheers of […]

  The Kerry Junior Football Team that will face Mayo in the All Ireland Junior Football final in Croke Park on Saturday at 2pm has been named. There team, which will be led out by captain Alan O’Donoghue of John Mitchels , shows three changes from the side that started in […]

YOU may have noticed the weather has been particularly bad this summer. Well, Met Eireann have gone and confirmed it by declaring July “cold, wet and windy everywhere” and the worst in 22 years. There was precious time to work on a colour in this part of the country with […]

A TRALEE gold medal winner got a hero’s welcome home last night. There were joyous scenes when Oakview man, Brendan O’Connell, returned home with the gold medal and 4th place ribbon he won at the Special Olympics in Los Angeles. The Kerry Stars Special Olympics Club member, landed gold in the 800m […]

IN the aftermath of Kerry’s 27 point demolition job of Kildare on Sunday, even Darragh Ó Sé is finding it hard to throw cold water on the expectations that have arisen from the win. Writing in his Irish Times column  today, he agonises over how the hell Kerry people are going to […]

Mike ‘Masterchef’ O’Halloran has been sampling the delights of north Kerry hospitality while covering the county hurling championship for TraleeToday.ie over the past month. So whose buns have impressed him…  SINCE the games in this year’s Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior hurling championship were moved to the five North Kerry clubs of […]

Mike O’Halloran reports on an exciting Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SFC clash between Ballyduff and Crotta O’Neill’s in Lixnaw last night… Ballyduff 2-20 Crotta O’Neill’s 1-17 Crotta have played nearly four hours of hurling in the 2015 championship between draws, extra time and added time. Tonight again, in Lixnaw, they lost […]

  Kerry will have a pep in their step in training after Sunday, but there’s a lot more work to do says Barry O’Shea… IT WAS a 27 point win, but I’d bet if you spoke to Eamonn Fitzmaurice, he’ll find plenty of things the team can still work on. […]

  AFTER Kerry showed flashes of genius in their demolition of Kildare it’s worth recalling this, the greatest point in Kerry football history. It happened 14 years ago today, August 4, 2001. Kerry, losing by a point to Dublin in the closing stages of the All-Ireland Quarter Final in Thurles, […]

As the dust settles on Kerry defeat of Kildare, Gavin O’Connor looks at what we learnt from the victory, plus our own action photos from the game… 1. The Gooch is back  James O’Donoghue had hinted in the build-up that Cooper is a different man as soon he hits Croker. Kerry followers […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Ballyduff yesterday to see Kilmoyley play Abbeydorney in the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SHC clash… Kilmoyley 2-10 Abbeydorney 0-6 Kilmoyley had a very facile victory over a very poor outfit from Abbeydorney in the wind and rain in Ballyduff. Kilmoyley played with a significant wind in the […]

KERRY GAA have issued an update on the injury to James O’Donoghue sustained yesterday. The Kerry star injured his shoulder when he fell following a tackle by the goalkeeper in yesterday’s All Ireland Football Quarter final tie with Kildare. According to the statement: “The Kerry Medical Team immediately realigned the shoulder […]

  THE Kerry County Board has launched a new initiative to raise funds for the new Kerry GAA Centre of Excellence. The Kerry GAA Centre of Excellence incorporates two locations, a co-hosted GAA facility at the Institute of Technology, Tralee, and six playing fields with a training facility at Currans near […]

EARLIER we brought you photos of the Kerry fans in Dublin for the match (click here for previous story). In recent years, the support for Kerry in quarter and semi-finals has been very impressive and despite the lack of glamour about the fixture, there was still a great showing of […]

  YOU really had to feel sorry for Kildare by the end yesterday. Sitting in the crowd, when Colm Cooper advanced on goal with a few minutes to go, a few Kerry fans behind me implored him to punch it over and he duly did that. It was a plea for […]

FROM a spectator’s point of view, it fell somewhere between the Christians v The Lions circa 90AD and a Harlem Globetrotters exhibition game, but Kerry fans didn’t mind. They turned up in their thousands again at our spiritual home and roared their approval as the Kerry forwards ran riot in […]

Gavin O’Connor reports from Croke Park on Kerry’s rout of Kildare… Kerry 7-16 Kildare 0-10 IT was total domination as Kerry destroyed Kildare by 27 points this afternoon. Seven second half goals helped equal the all-time winning margin in championship football. Ruthlessness, driven by competition for places was the catalyst for […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Newbridge to see the Kerry minor hurlers beat Kildare in the  All-Ireland Minor B Hurling Championship Quarter-Final… Kerry 2-19 Kildare 0-13 KERRY minor hurlers took the first step towards a treble for Kerry teams as they strolled past Kildare in Newbridge on a scoreline of 2-19 points […]

Stephen Brosnan talks to Kevin McMahon about his time in the John Mitchels Club… Name: Kevin Mc Mahon Role: John Mitchel’s RefereeTralee GAA Board Member. John Mitchel’s Minor player from/to: 1976-1979 Player Position: Right Corner Back (Q): Which player/club member would you have looked up to as a player? (A): “Sylvie Mason was […]

  Mike O’Halloran looks at the Garveys SuperValu Kerry senior hurling championship games on Monday and Tuesday… Abbeydorney will take on Kilmoyley at 6.30pm in Ballyduff with the winners heading to the semi-final, while on Tuesday, Ballyduff will take on fellow losers from the last round Crotta ONeills in Lixnaw also […]