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THIS time on Sunday we’ll know if Kerry will be celebrating a 38th All-Ireland victory, but right now we know the starting 15 tasked with beating the Tribesmen. Kerry and Galway will face each other in the All-Ireland Final for the first time since 2000 — when a replay was […]

  A TRALEE man finds himself poised to win a small fortune if the final piece of this long-term bet comes to fruition over the weekend. Ballybeggan’s David Culloty placed the the €100 bet close to 10 months ago and is now just under 48 hours away from finding if he will […]

IF you hadn’t already guessed it, there’s a bit of a match coming up this weekend in Croke Park. Local businesses have been out and about putting the last touches on their displays as they show their support for the Kerry team, with excitement and hype surrounding the final clash […]

  THROUGHOUT the year, they walk among us, but in the lead up to an All-Ireland final against Dublin, the presence of those neighbours who’ve swapped City life for the Kingdom is more keenly felt. Marcus Howlett, is well known to the running fraternity in Tralee, having set up the […]

THERE is a great sense of excitement all around the town as the day of the All Ireland Final clash with Dublin approaches with local businesses keen to show their support to the team ahead of the match. TraleeToday.ie were out and about yesterday afternoon capturing a selection of the […]

TRALEE band Rouge, featuring Paudie Hobbert, have recorded quite a catchy song ahead of the upcoming All-Ireland Final clash with Dublin. Entitled ‘The Gooch & His Boots’, it tells the tale of Kerry’s trip through this year’s championship where they beat Tipperary Cork, Kildare and Tyrone along the way. There are a […]

THREE bona fide legends of Kerry football met up on a couch in Waterville to discuss games gone by and this Sunday’s Kerry v Dublin, final. Along with the football talk, Mick O’Dwyer, Maurice Fitzgerald and Darragh, attempt to out-rogue each other and talk Dublin up a bit at times, […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at three key areas where Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s tactical guile will prove invaluable if Kerry are to win title No.38… ONE of the main buzzwords you’ll hear in the run up to the All-Ireland Final is ‘versatility’. Eamonn Fitzmaurice has shown this in spades so far in his […]

IT’S fair to say that spare tickets for the upcoming All Ireland Final between Kerry and Dublin are few and far between at the moment. The clash of the two heavyweights has left those GAA fans lucky enough to have secured a ticket, salivating at the thought of the match […]

ONE Kerry man is certainly getting into the swing of things in the build up to the upcoming All Ireland Final after he penned quite a catchy ‘tune’ about what he predicts will happen in our showdown with the ‘mighty dubs’. Killorglin’s James Flynn recently put pen to paper on […]

AS everyone knows there’s no love lost between Kerry and Dublin in football, but the same can be said for the Dubs when it comes to their closest neighbours in the Royal County. A photo of a car in Navan decked out in green and gold with ‘Up Kerry’ written […]

TWO Meath men will take charge of Kerry’s All-Ireland senior and minor finals on September 20. David Coldrick will officiate the senior final between Kerry and Dublin, while his county man, David Gough, will be blowing the whistle for the minor final between Kerry and Tipperary. It’s a good omen for […]

IRISH TV will broadcast a special show on the All-Ireland Football Final from the Fels Point Hotel during a week where match fever will have taken hold of the county. Taking place on Tuesday September 15 from 8pm to 10pm, ‘Mad For Sam’ will showcase the wonderful passion for football here in the […]

  THE Kerry Team Open Day, which had been scheduled for Saturday, has now been changed to the following day. It makes sense as Kerry boss, Eamonn Fitzmaurice, would obviously have to be in Croke Park on Saturday evening for the Dublin v Mayo All-Ireland semi-final replay. Instead it will […]

Click on above ad for great offer Nobody expected it so why are Kerry champions again. Gavin O’Connor tries to make sense of it… New blood With Tomas O’Sé, Paul Galvin and Eoin Brosnan exiting the camp, one of the main reasons Kerry were written off at the start of championship […]

THE Ardfert man who became an internet sensation on Tuesday when the video of him earning €2,000 for his club in an AIB challenge, has spoken to TraleeToday.ie about the experience. When, John Dowling, a teacher at Mercy Mounthawk, was faced with the difficult decision of ripping up his All-Ireland final ticket in […]

By Gavin O’Connor A KERRY final defeat can live long in the memory, but their path to a final can be often thrown to one side. Whatever happens this Sunday, 2014 will be a year that won’t be easily forgotten. Back in February, Kerry’s odds of winning the All-Ireland went from […]

Our football columnist, Barry O’Shea, tips Kerry to just shade it on Sunday… THE week before the All-Ireland Final is not the easiest thing in the world to deal with. It was the worst part of the whole thing for me. I was always a bit edgy, I didn’t want […]

Player Profile – By Gavin O’Connor THERE was a sense of deja-vu when Kieran Donaghy caught his first ball of many over Mayo’s Ger Cafferkey in the drawn semi-final. It was almost a decade ago, in a qualifier match in 2006 against Longford in Killarney, when Donaghy announced himself with a […]

MARC O Sé is back in the starting line-up for Sunday’s All-Ireland final along with Stephen O’Brien. These are the two personnel changes in the Kerry Senior Football Team to play Donegal in the All Ireland Senior Football Championship Final on Sunday, from the side that started the semi final replay […]

  WITH the Kerry team to play the All-Ireland set to be announced later this evening, Traleetoday.ie caught up with two legends of the game, Eoin ‘Bomber’ Liston and Ger Power, who between them in their careers collected 15 senior Celtic crosses. We spoke to the Kerry greats about  Sunday’s game […]

Player Profile – By Gavin O’Connor HAS there been a player in the Championship this year who has emerged from the shadows to the extent David Moran has? The Strand Road club man has already received recognition of his performances when he was awarded the GAA/GPA Player of the month for […]

A QUICK run around to sports shops in the town centre revealed jersey sales have been brisk in the run-up to the All-Ireland final on Sunday week with the blue jersey proving a big hit in one outlet. There’s a great feel good factor around town with the glorious weather […]