Post Tagged with: "All-Ireland Final 2015"

FANS welcomed back the two Kerry teams to Tralee last night with mixed emotions on stage as the minors revelled in their success and the seniors reflected on what might have been. The teams were paraded down Denny Street in an open top bus, eventually taking the stage outside the Ashe Memorial Hall […]

SO the result didn’t go our way in the senior game on Sunday, but the fans turned out in their tens of thousands to support Kerry in the capital. We caught up with many of them before the game. Scroll down for photos (we’ll have many more later)…

SO how are you this morning? I’ve woken up with a constrictor knot in my stomach that won’t unravel until around 5pm this afternoon. Whether it’s replaced by joy and relief, or despair, is irrelevant. It matters that ‘the knot’ is there. I am, after all, from Kerry. Don’t worry, this article isn’t going […]

  HOMES and businesses have been making a huge effort to show their support for the Kerry team by decking their properties in green and gold. Some readers have sent in a few photos of their homes in the Kerry colours, while we took  more images of businesses displaying their support. […]

Former Kerry star, Barry O’Shea, says Kerry’s class up front could be enough to bring home title No.38… ONE of the main talking points all week has been if Kerry get on top of Stephen Cluxton’s kick-outs it will go a long way in winning the match. But people have to remember the […]

Gavin O’Connor says it will be close, but Kerry’s belief, guile and taking the right options at crucial times, can prevail on Sunday… IT’s getting very close now isn’t it? In a lot of ways it’s the build up to an All-Ireland Final that can be the most enjoyable, despite the […]

KERRY and Dublin encounters have thrown up so many memorable moments over the years. While the ‘city slickers’ versus the ‘country bumpkins’ stereotype has existed for over 100 years, the real rivalry kicked off in earnest in the 1970s and the golden age for both counties. But what were the moments that […]

SO now we know. The Kerry senior team has been named for Sunday and Kieran Donaghy will have to settle for a place on the bench with Paul Geaney coming in at full forward for the decider against Dublin. Elsewhere, Fionn Fitzgerald and Aidan O’Mahony come into the full back line […]

THE Kerry faithful turned up at the Fels Point Hotel last night for the live broadcast of ‘Mad For Sam’. The Irish TV production, hosted by Brian Hurley and Síle Ní Dheargáin, had a great atmosphere with some Kerry legends giving their views on the match while Kerry GAA officials […]

YOU can nearly, always count on a Darragh O’Se article in The Irish Times, to give you at least one decent chuckle. This week, while lamenting the sadness of an All-Ireland Final loss around the county he uses the sight of a lonely flag in Glenbeigh to humorous to effect, […]

AND the songs keep on coming… With just days to go until the All-Ireland final, schoolchildren from all over Tralee have been wearing the green and gold and singing their support for the Kerry team. The kids at St John’s Parochial School have made a great video to the tune of […]

WITH skills like this, you’d definitely know that this young man has some Kerry blood in him! Daniel Dennehy is a 3x Irish freestyle champion who was raised in Dublin, but who spent three years living here in Kerry with his Kingdom-born father. With the All-Ireland Final now fast approaching, […]

IT’S getting close. We’re coming into All-Ireland final week now so expect to see changes around the county in the next seven days. Fingernails will be gnawed shorter, animals will get a lick of paint and the mood will be a mixture of euphoria and dread as the days go by. […]

SURE everyone knows the All-Blacks are the Kerry of the rugby world so it’s only natural that one of the all-time greats of the sport would come to the Kingdom. In an interview in today’s Irish Independent, Jonah Lomu, says he’s on his way to Kerry in the coming weeks during the World […]

YOU wait a year for a Tralee primary school-related music video cheering on Kerry and then two come on the same day! Are they doing any lessons this week in our primary schools? First we had the two CBS pupils expertly grilling Darragh Ó Sé on his career, then the […]

YOU know we’re well and truly into All-Ireland final countdown when the schools are recording songs to support the lads. Last year, Moyderwell pupils told Kerry to ‘shake’ off the challenge of Donegal, this year it’s the kids from across town in Scoil Eoin, Balloonagh, who have recorded  a video encouraging Kerry […]

  WHO was Darragh Ó Sé’s most difficult opponent? What does he think of Joe Brolly? Who’d win in a fight between himself, Marc and Tomás? Expert interviewers from Tralee CBS Primary School, Enda and David, got the midfield legend into the Radio Kerry’s studios recently, to ask him about Kerry’s […]

A MAJOR fundraising scheme to ensure Austin Stack Park will continue to host Kerry league games and enhance the facilities at the iconic Tralee landmark has been launched. A five year All-Ireland Final ticket-scheme, costing €1,000 a year for the next five years, has been created to encourage the business and wider […]

IT really was a special day in Killarney on Sunday for Kerry fans. A huge crowd of fans gathered in glorious sunshine at Fitzgerald Stadium to meet the Kerry players in advance of the All-Ireland final in two weeks time. Star players Colm Cooper, Kieran Donaghy and others spent over an […]

NO sooner had referee Maurice Deegan blown his whistle for the end of the match yesterday, than you could almost here people typing away on their various devices trying to book transport and a place to stay for the All-Ireland final weekend. The scramble is on and looking through a […]