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WHILE the weather wreaks havoc outside today, a different kind of storm hit Austin Stack Park on Sunday when the Rockies and the Narries met. The first all-Tralee Kerry SFC final in decades was a tense affair with Austin Stacks emerging as deserving winners in the end. We were there […]

“OH to be a, oh to be a Rockie!” Stacks fans woke up this morning with the sweetest feeling in the world…a winning one. It was a truly memorable afternoon for all involved in Austin Stacks GAA Club as everything went right for them on county final day. Watch a short […]

THERE were no chants or colourful parades, but Kerins O’Rahillys fans showed up in their droves yesterday for the county final to support their team. It was a hugely disappointing afternoon for them though, as they saw their side defeated to their rivals Austin Stacks on a day little went […]

AUSTIN Stacks fans will be ‘walking in a Rockie wonderland’ this winter after the club won its 13th senior county championship this afternoon in Austin Stack Park. They deservedly beat arch-rivals Kerins O’Rahillys by 0-13 to 0-10 to spark wild celebrations among their colourful supporters who ran onto the field […]

NOISE levels reached eardrum-worrying levels at Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn on Friday as the school held a club colours day in anticipation of a weekend of finals involving Tralee clubs. While Na Gaeil looked like they just about shaded it in numbers, they were matched in volume by a sizeable Rockie […]

IF you love your football and for some reason, you can’t go to the game in Tralee on Sunday, then you’re in luck. Kerry GAA in association with Atlantic Oils and Horgan’s Centre Ardfert, is streaming  the all-Tralee clash between Austin Stacks and Kerins O’Rahillys on Sunday and the Na […]

ONLY a few days to go now before the biggest club game the town has seen in decades. The town has been buzzing in anticipation of the final between Austin Stacks and Kerins O’Rahillys this Sunday and Tralee Chamber has captured that excitement in a new video made by John […]

IT’S been a long time since Kerins O’Rahillys saw their blue and white ribbons hanging from the handles of the Bishop Moynihan Cup, but the Chairman of the Strand Road club is hopeful and says it’s anyone’s game on Sunday. Haulie Kerins is wishing they can overcome Austin Stacks to […]

SUNDAY will be a proud day for Billy Ryle. A Rockie all his life, Billy is Chairman of the Austin Stacks Club for a Kerry SFC county final against their greatest rivals Kerins O’Rahillys, something that hasn’t happened since 1936 when the black and amber triumphed. It’s an exciting time […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

THEY come in their hundreds. They’re noisy and colourful. They are The Rockies fan club. We caught up with one of the Austin Stacks fan club’s chief organisers, Kevin O’Carroll, to get a sense of the mood ahead of the hotly anticipated county final this Sunday against Mid Kerry. “There […]

FROM the Brogue to St Brendan’s Church, Rock Street is decked out in black and amber. While there is bunting aplenty and flags hanging from every pole, businesses on the ‘Street Of Champions’ are also passionate in showing their support. We all know about the Kirby family’s passion for the Rock club, […]

WITH excitement building ahead of this Sunday’s county final, the Austin Stacks contingent in CBS Primary went all out on Tuesday to show their colours. Austin Stacks face Mid Kerry this Sunday in Austin Stacks Park and will be bidding for their first county championship in 20 years, long before the […]