Post Tagged with: "Kerry GAA"

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 […]

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, […]

TWO working days was all it took for the business community in Tralee to achieve their target contribution figure within the overall one million euro fund to develop Austin Stack Park Tralee. A five year All-Ireland Final ticket-scheme, costing €1,000 a year for five years, was created to encourage businesses in […]

CBS THE GREEN showed off its colour and the strong links with the Kerry teams aiming for ‘Double, Double’ glory in the All-Ireland Senior and Minor finals, on Monday morning. Between the two finals, The GreeN will have a teacher and eight past and present pupils involved in Croke Park. Story […]

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 […]

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 […]

KERRY footballer Darran O’Sullivan, took time out from his preparation for the All-Ireland Final against Dublin in two weeks to drop into students at Coláiste Gleann Lí on Tuesday morning. Story continued below… The player delivered a workshop with the students on developing life skills through sport. The workshop is […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘Get fresh at the weekend’ sang upbeat pop duo Mel & Kim on their 1986 hit ‘Showing Out’. We recommend you do the same by checking out these events around town over the next few days… Friday 1. Tips for top style The Manor West Hotel is hosting the ‘Fashion Soirée at Manor […]

THE venue has been announced for the All-Ireland Final post match function so get your tickets quick. The Ballsbridge Hotel (formerly Jury’s) will host what green and gold followers hope are the ‘double, double’ celebrations on the night of September 20. This is the second year in a row the […]

IT has emerged that, former Kerry Senior Hurling Manager, Eamonn Kelly, will become the new Offaly manager, he is set to be ratified at the next County Board meeting on Tuesday night. During his two years in charge, the Tipp man, won two Division 2A titles and negotiated Kerry’s promotion to […]

TWO current Kerry GAA stars with strong ties to Tralee CBS, helped launch the secondary school’s inaugural 5k and 3k fun run in aid of a new astro turf facility on the school grounds. The fun run will take place on Sunday, September 27 at 1pm sharp. Story continued below… Barry John […]

THIS may be the greatest Kerry All-Ireland song we’ve seen and heard since Noel Nash’s ‘The Kerry Victory Song’ in 1978. The children at Thai Tim’s school over in Thailand have put together a song to cheer on the lads later this month. Thai Tim’s is a school in rural Thailand which […]

  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 […]

Gavin O’Connor talks to Kerry ladies football team manager, Alan O’Neill, about the All-Ireland semi-final against the Rebels on Saturday… LAST Sunday the Kerry senior team managed to get a monkey off their back in beating Tyrone at Croke Park. This weekend it’s the turn of the ladies to try […]

  FORMER Meath player, Anthony Moyles, has come out with some interesting comments about the quality of the Kerry attack and how the side stacks up compared with the other two remaining teams in the championship. Moyles feels Kerry are not at the same level as Dublin and Mayo, despite being […]

ONE Kerry mother certainly experienced every emotion under the sun as she watched the team take on the old enemy Tyrone in the All Ireland Semi-Final this past Sunday afternoon. Maureen Fleming and her son Tadhg – well known for his Facebook videos – from Ballymac, did the same as most Kerry […]

Gavin O’Connor on the All-Ireland SFC semi-final, Kerry v Tyrone, Sunday, 3.30pm, Croke Park… WHEN Kerry lost to Tyrone in the 2008 All-Ireland Final, 10 of the current panel were involved in that game, while with Tyrone, only three remain. Sean Cavanagh, who gave one of the great All-Ireland final performances […]

Gavin O’Connor talks to Tyrone native and Gaelic Life journalist, Ciaran Woods, about what the feeling is like in the Red Hand county in the run-up to tomorrow’s match… So, what has been the mood been like all week up in Tyrone?  To be the honest the mood up here has been […]

Former Kerry star, Barry O’Shea, says the game on Sunday will be tight and not easy on the eye… THE players and management might say it’s just another game, but we all know it’s not. The game has an edge to it, there’s an undertone to this game. It’s not an […]

REMEMBER the guy who helped Rory Gallagher sing ‘Jimmy’s Winning Matches’ back in 2012 when Donegal won Sam? Well the good news is he’s switched allegiances to Kerry in the run-up to Sunday’s semi-final. In a YouTube video (below) uploaded by SportsJoe.ie, the Lanzarote resident, who became a sensation for Donegal […]

THE big rivalry between Kerry and Tyrone has generated huge interest in Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final in Croke Park with Kingdom fans expected to be well represented in the capital at the weekend. Kerry supporters have been picking up tickets and packing out buses all week in the hope we’ll finally get one over on […]

CAPTAIN Kieran Donaghy returns to the Kerry team to face Tyrone this Sunday in a team which shows three changes from the team that started against Kildare in the quarter-final. In other changes for the All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park, Peter Crowley replaces newly-wed Aidan O’Mahony while Johnny Buckley returns to the […]

The greatest rivalry of the Noughties will be renewed again on Sunday and Kerry fans will be praying they’ll finally get the better of Tyrone in Croke Park for the first time since 1986. Gavin O’Connor looks at why a win over the Red Hand county means so much… 1. They’ve […]