Post Tagged with: "All-Ireland Championship 2015"

        I MET an old friend while waiting in Heuston for the train back to Tralee, who described the victory as “like an exorcism”. That pretty much sums it up. Every generation of Kerry fan has its Tyrone. Back in the 60s we had two of them! […]

CAPTAIN Kieran Donaghy returns to the Kerry team to face Tyrone this Sunday in a team which shows three changes from the team that started against Kildare in the quarter-final. In other changes for the All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park, Peter Crowley replaces newly-wed Aidan O’Mahony while Johnny Buckley returns to the […]

The greatest rivalry of the Noughties will be renewed again on Sunday and Kerry fans will be praying they’ll finally get the better of Tyrone in Croke Park for the first time since 1986. Gavin O’Connor looks at why a win over the Red Hand county means so much… 1. They’ve […]

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 […]

Gavin O’Connor on Kerry v Kildare in tomorrow’s All-Ireland Quarter-Final against Kildare at Croke Park… MORE often than not there is sense of a procession about quarter-finals with Kerry involved. The record is pretty good; Kerry have competed in the quarter-final every year since it came in back in 2001 […]

Barry O’Shea played for Kerry in 1998 when the Lilywhites got the better of us, but he reckons Sunday will have an altogether different outcome… BACK in 1998, I was played in an All-Ireland semi-final against Kildare, my cousin Karl and his father Micko, were also involved that day, though on […]

THERE is just one change on the Kerry team from the Munster final replay two weeks ago, for their clash against Kildare on Sunday in Croke Park. Stephen O’Brien, introduced in the Munster Final, is named in the half forward line in place of Johnny Buckley. Colm Cooper remains on […]

  JAMES O’Donoghue says Colm Cooper, will be back to his best in no time and that the Croke Park venue may well be the catalyst to ignite the Gooch’s season. “The Gooch is The Gooch. You just look forward to getting on the field with him. I am sure the Gooch’s form will […]

  IT’S been confirmed by the GAA that Kerry will play their All-Ireland Quarter Final against Kildare at 2pm on Sunday in Croke Park. The other quarter-final involving Dublin v Fermanagh will throw-in at 4pm. Meanwhile the Kerry minors will be involved in another double-header, this time in Tullamore the following […]