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THE incredible story of Austin Stacks in 2014 is coming a screen near you! Yes, the Rockies have decided to commemorate the incredible year they’ve had by releasing a DVD of their story in ‘2014 – A Rockumentary’, which will be premiered in Siamsa Tire on Wednesday, December 10. This […]

THE Austin Stacks Club have announced that they are putting on special buses for the fans to travel to the Munster Club Championship Final in Cork and are charging just €5 return. The subsidised buses will take the Rockie hordes to Pairc Ui Rinn, Cork for the  2pm throw-in on […]

WE’VE already put up the videos of the Austin Stacks fans, but TraleeToday.ie was also there to take photos of the fans on that sunny Sunday morning. Rockie fans gathered at the Connolly Park headquarters before the game against Ballincollig and what a colourful lot they were. No doubt they’ll gather early on Sunday […]

Gavin O’Connor analyses the Austin Stacks game on Sunday and picks out the main talking points… 1. The slow start The Rock had to endure a very nervy opening first 20 minutes. Ballincollig, outscored Stacks by a score 1-4 to 0-1 and on balance, you had to say the Kerry […]

THE date and venue has been set for the Munster Club Championship Final between Austin Stacks and The Nire from Waterford. The match will take place at Pairc Ui Rinn, Cork city on Sunday, November 30 at 2pm. Expect a big crowd to travel from The Rock for that one! […]

WE’VE already shown you the Austin Stacks and Ballincollig fans creating fun on the streets of Tralee yesterday. But TraleeToday.ie was also at the clubhouse on Sunday morning with the fans and we followed them on their journey to the stadium, on the terraces, right through to the final whistle. […]

AUSTIN Stacks booked their place in this year’s Munster Club Final yesterday, but not after an incredibly tough contest against the Cork champions, Ballincollig. Here is a selection of how it all went down on the ‘Twittersphere’… The Irish Examiner’s Tony Leen was setting the record straight in the buildup […]

Gavin O’Connor (who correctly predicted a three point win for Stacks in our preview on Saturday) reports on an epic Munster semi-final clash yesterday in Austin Stack Park. Photos from the match at the end of report… Austin Stacks 0-15 Ballincollig 1-9 AUSTIN STACKS have booked their place in the […]

THE GAA seems to bring out the best in people and Sunday was no different in Tralee. The Austin Stacks fans paraded through town and came upon the Ballincollig supporters, who came out from Turner’s and The Sportsfield Bar to witness the colourful carnival. Both sets of fans greeted  and wished […]

IT wasn’t the greatest of games, but it was certainly an epic! Austin Stacks booked their place in the Munster Club Championship final after a three point win, 0-15 to 1-9, over Ballincollig at a sunny Austin Stack Park on Sunday afternoon. They become the first Tralee team to contest […]

Gavin O’Connor previews the Austin Stacks v Ballincollig Munster Club Championship semi-final at Austin Stack Park on Sunday (2pm) THIS is a weird one for Stephen Stack and his band of champions to prepare for. The celebrations and good vibes that spread across the town when Stacks won the county final would […]

THE Stacks fans are getting ready. This poster (click on image to enlarge) which was sent to TraleeToday.ie,  issues a rallying cry to all Rockie fans for Sunday’s Munster semi-final clash with Ballincollig at Austin Stack Park. Kieran Donaghy is in full Lord Kitchener pose to ask for the black […]

IT’s been a crazy last few days for the newly crowned county champions, Austin Stacks. On Wednesday, members of the team visited schools in town with the Bishop Moynihan Cup. The first port of call, was CBS Clounalour, where a number of players were past pupils. Next up was Holy […]

IF people were worried that the county final atmosphere generated by Rockie fans in Tralee would be lost in the vastness of Fitzgerald Stadium, they were sorely mistaken! Fans availed of the seven free buses to Killarney where the black and amber army marched up to the Lewis Road to the […]

WANT to relive the best moments from Sunday’s County Final between Austin Stacks and Mid Kerry? KerryGAA TV have uploaded the highlights to YouTube. Watch goals from Kieran Donaghy, Pa McCarthy, Gavin O’Grady and the final point of the game from Darragh Long here.

STEPHEN Stack, may describe himself as an outsider, but as the man that has steered Austin Stacks to their first senior county title in 20 years, he will forever have a special place on “the street of champions”. In two short years since the Listowel man took the reins at […]

Gavin O’Connor dissects yesterday’s Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SFC final and looks at the reasons the Rockies prevailed… Hunger I had mentioned in the run up to the first game that Mid Kerry wouldn’t come near Stacks when it came to hunger. This was most evident again in the second encounter. Perhaps the […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL Austin Stacks 2-13; Mid Kerry 1-7 We had a blistering start to this Co. Final replay played at an overcast but mainly dry (light shower at start of play and a little rain in the closing few minutes) Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday afternoon (2ndNov) and led by 1-3 […]

YESTERDAY was an incredible day for Austin Stacks players, many of whom had been toiling for years to get their hands on a Kerry senior county championship medal. We caught up with a few of them at The Brogue Inn and the Austin Stacks Clubhouse on Sunday night. TraleeToday.ie’s Gavin […]

ON a day when the Austin Stacks team rose to the occasion to win their first senior championship county title since 1994, so did the famous Rockies’ support. Stacks beat Mid Kerry by 2-13 to 1-7 in a replay of the senior county championship final in Killarney and hundreds of Rock […]

TWENTY years. Kerry football was still in the famine years the last time the Rock won a county title. Back then, a young Pa Laide was instrumental in bringing the Bishop Moynihan Cup back to Connolly Park. William Kirby was still a Na Gaeil player, moving to the Stacks in […]

Gavin O’Connor on a momentous day for Austin Stacks… Austin Stacks 2-13 Mid Kerry 1-7 AUSTIN Stacks ended a 20 year barren spell without a senior county championship title in emphatic style against Mid Kerry in Killarney on  Sunday.. With the light dimming, captain Barry Shanahan lifted the Bishop Moynihan […]

  AUSTIN Stacks talisman, Kieran Donaghy, is calling for more of the same from Rockie fans this Sunday as they attempt to win their first county title in 20 years. The Kerry star spoke to TraleeToday.ie at the ‘Be A Star Dominos Basketball Camp’ on Thursday (click here for more […]

AROUND 700 Austin Stacks fans are expected to board free coaches to Killarney next week thanks to the club. But the change of venue for this Sunday’s county final replay has forced Rockies to abandon their famous march to the stadium before big matches. Because the replay between Austin Stacks and Mid Kerry […]

Gavin O’Connor trawls through Twitter and finds out what people were saying and what photos they were posting on Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SFC Final day… There were signs early on that we were in for a good day when Dermot Mahony spotted this rainbow over Austin Stack Park. Rainbow in Tralee for […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the main features of Sunday’s Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SFC final at Austin Stack Park from a Rockie point of view… 1. Austin Stacks’ Point-Scoring  Some of the scores by Stacks were of an extremely high calibre and that’s not even taking the weather into account. The […]

SOME of the most fanatical Rockies congregated in the Austin Stacks clubhouse ahead of the County Final On Sunday and TraleeToday.ie captured some of the colour. Fans began to gather early and by 12.30pm the clubhouse was packed with fans anticipating the big match. The thrilling encounter finished in a draw, 1-13 […]

AUSTIN STACKS and Mid-Kerry played out a draw in Tralee yesterday, taking the county championship into November when the replay takes place next Sunday. Killarney photographer, Don MacMonagle, captured the atmosphere in a video he posted to YouTube after the game. Watch goals from Kieran Donaghy and Donnchadh Walsh and […]

THE Rock was well and truly out in force today when they took to the streets of the town ahead of today’s County Final against Mid Kerry. Out on the pitch the game ended in a draw, but on the terraces there was no doubt who was victorious. The scenes […]

Austin Stacks 1-13 Mid Kerry 2-10 BOTH sides will feel they left this game after them in what was a thrilling, Garvey’s Super Valu Senior Football Championship Final, in Austin Stack Park. Next Sunday is the date for the replay, but the venue is as yet to be decided. It […]