Post Tagged with: "Kerry GAA"

THIS year’s Allianz National Football League has thrown up four away fixtures for the Kingdom. That means the travelling Kerry support will clock up some serious mileage. 2,576km to be exact and 30 hours on the road in total. Continued below… It’s a good job petrol and diesel prices are […]

  JUST eight of Kerry’s 2015 All-Ireland Final side are named in the starting 15 for Kerry’s Allianz National League opener against Dublin in Croke Park this Saturday at 7pm. Three Kerins O’Rahilly’s men feature in the team that will look to get one back on Dublin after the disappointment […]

WITH the opening match of the Allianz National League against Dublin in Croke Park now only days away, Kerry GAA, has unveiled new training gear the football and hurling teams will wear throughout the league campaign. Standing out from previous years, Kerry have gone for a luminous green as the most […]

THE draws for the Castleisland Mart Club Championship took place last night at the County Committee meeting held in Austin Stack Park. Recent championship clashes would suggest Kerins O’Rahilly’s would have preferred to avoid Legion. The Killarney side have knocked O’Rahilly’s out of the 2015 Senior Championship and the two […]

FOR the first time in over a decade three Tralee clubs will compete in Division 1 of the Credit Union Senior Football County League. John Mitchels will join defending champions Austin Stacks and Kerins O’Rahilly’s in the top flight throwing up a couple of more town derby days. Once again, […]

KERRY GAA stars from all codes were honoured at the Kerry GAA Supporters Club social in the Ballygarry House Hotel on Saturday night. A crowd of around 200 loyal GAA supporters reviewed the year gone by and speculated on Kerry’s chances for 2016 in the company of the football and hurling All-Stars. […]

KERRY will go to Croke Park next Saturday for their Allianz National League opener and the GAA are offering a deal that runs throughout the football and hurling campaigns that will save you a few bob. Tickets at the gate cost €15, but if you buy online, by midnight on […]

RECENTLY retired from football, Declan O’Sullivan will, like so many greats of the game, get the ‘Laochra Gael’ treatment on TG4. The show is the third of the series and will air at 5.55pm on Sunday, March 6. The long running GAA documentary series looks at the careers of legends of […]

DID you notice something missing this morning as you were travelling on Rock Street or Pembroke Street this morning? The painting which adorned the side of The Corner House, where the two streets meet, was absent. Based on the famous photo of Sean Walsh rising into the sky over Brian Mullins […]

AS part of long term plans to upgrade all facilities at Tralee’s Austin Stack Park, the second phase of renovations have commenced at the grounds over the last week or so according to the Kerry GAA website. The second phase of development involves the following… • The levelling and concreting […]

THERE has been a change of date for Kerry’s next Munster Hurling League match with Kerry to play Waterford in Fitzgerald Stadium this coming Saturday at 2pm, rather than Sunday. This will be Kerry’s final match in the competition which has been a baptism of fire for Ciaran Carey and his charges. […]

THIS is GAA ‘silly season’ with the National League weeks away and the All-Ireland Club Championships on a break until February. Well the national GAA journalists have a bit of downtime these days, so one of them has picked his top 50 full-backs of the last 50 years. Martin Breheny of […]

THE Kerry team to face Tipperary on Sunday will see David Moran and Tommy Walsh pair up in midfield with their club mate Barry John Keane in the forward line. Killian Young will captain the side which features eleven of the match day squad for last year’s All Ireland Final in […]

THE inaugural Kerry GAA Gala Fundraising Dinner will be held at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel, Dublin, on Friday, January 29. This black-tie event, with a table for ten costing €2,000, will take place on the eve of the opening game in the Allianz Football League in which Dublin and Kerry will […]

A T-SHIRT has popped up online that might get blood boiling Leeside and could be the perfect item to adorn yourself with on the walk up to Fitzgerald Stadium on Munster Final Day. The amusing shirt proclaims that “On the 8th day God created Kerry people because even Cork people need […]

  FIVE time All-Ireland winner, Bryan Sheehan, has been nominated as the Kerry captain for 2016. The county champions, South Kerry, have nominated the St Mary’s man and this will be ratified at the next meeting of the Kerry county board. Sheehan previously captained Kerry in 2010. In 2005 he made his championship debut, since […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Limerick on Sunday for the Kerry senior hurling team’s first outing of the year… Limerick 2-23 Kerry 0-18 The Kerry hurlers began their 2016 season with a trip to the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Sunday, to play in round one of Munster Senior League. Kerry came […]

YESTERDAY we brought you some of the stand-out photos we took at Kerry GAA games during the year with our own cameras. Here’s the second part, featuring memorable moments of action, joy and heartbreak.            

THROUGHOUT 2015, we brought our cameras to Kerry games around the country and to see how Tralee teams fared in various competitions. We took loads of photos and here, in no particular order, is a selection of some which stood out (we’ll have more tomorrow)…  

THE hurt after an All-Ireland defeat ripples long into the winter, even more so when it comes against your greatest rival. The ‘double double’ was scuppered by a deserving Dublin, but that crushing loss should not banish all memories of 2015 from the memory bank. There was controversy, craic and an […]

KERRY legend Declan O’Sullivan has announced he will no longer be playing football. After undergoing knee surgery this morning the three-time All-Star made the announcement on Twitter, stating “After my op this morning sadly my football journey is over”. The five time All-Ireland winner hung up his boots with Kerry […]

THE year ends on a high note for David Moran who has been named as Munster Player of The Year for his performances for Kerry in the Munster championship this year. The O’Rahilly’s man starred in Kerry’s Munster Final Replay against Cork. Under torrential rain, Moran stood out, conducting the orchestra […]

IN the depths of winter and the championship far behind us, some people just can’t let things lie and get on with it. According to Tyrone GAA county secretary Dominic McCaughey – who was writing in his annual report – in this year’s All-Ireland semi-final referee, Maurice Deegan, denied Tyrone a second […]

KERRY star, Colm Cooper, is to have a minor operation on his shoulder next week. The Dr Crokes man will have the procedure in Santry and it is hoped he will be back on the playing fields in January, at the earliest. He is the latest in a long line of Kerry players […]

TEN Kerry GAA stars in total have been picked to represent Munster Football and Hurling team’s in the GAA Interprovincial Championship 2015 over the weekend. Aidan O’Mahony is captain of the Munster footballers who will face Leinster in Newry tomorrow. Shane Nolan, will be the sole Kerry representative on the hurling panel […]

JAMES O’Donoghue will go for surgery on a troublesome shoulder which will put him out of Kerry’s entire league campaign. The star forward, dislocated his shoulder while playing for Legion in the County Final replay against South Kerry two weeks ago. This will be O’Donoghue’s second shoulder surgery in just […]

PLANS of the new Kerry Sports Academy look pretty impressive, as the artist’s impression of the completed building reveals. Today, Joan Burton visited IT Tralee with Deputy Arthur Spring, to take a look at the site of the new development which received €7 million of capital funding from the government. The €15 million centre […]

IT looks like Kerry Senior Hurling Championship games could be played again in North Kerry. In 2015, due to the unavailability of Austin Stack Park because of redevelopment work, all rounds of the senior championship were played in the heartland of Kerry hurling. The Secretary of County Committee, Peter Twiss, has said […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the Austin Stacks v St Michaels/Foilmore, SFC Relegation Play-off Round 2 match in Lewis Road, Killarney, Saturday 2pm… ONE week shy of a year since Austin Stacks claimed Munster honours, Austin Stacks are faced once again with relegation after their deserved defeat to Milltown/Castlemaine in Round 1 of […]

WINTERS are colder and longer in Kerry when Sam hasn’t be claimed in September. This unwelcome occurrence brings with it a time of introspection among Kerry football people and Colm Cooper is no different. The Gooch, coming back from injury, admits he was slow to get moving, but was happy with […]