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IT’S been a long time coming, but Causeway fulfilled their potential on Sunday to become Kerry Senior Hurling Champions for the first time since 1998. They beat Lixnaw by 2-13 to 1-13 in front of 2,618 hurling fans in Austin Stack Park, sparking celebrations not seen in the venue for […]

Mike O’Halloran watched the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship double-header in Austin Stack Park on Saturday… Causeway overcame St Brendan’s on a scoreline of 1-16 to 0-12 in the opener in Tralee on Saturday. Causeway led at halftime 1-05 to 0-03, the Causeway goal coming from a beautiful one […]

Mike O’Halloran on the Keane’s SuperValu Kerry Minor Hurling semi-final between Ballyduff and Causeway/Kilmoyley… Ballyduff 1-14 Causeway/Kilmoyley 1-12 How Causeway/Kilmoyley must regret the three goal chances they spurned in the first twelve minutes of the Keane’s SuperValu Kerry Minor Hurling Semifinal played in Lixnaw on Monday night. Because on thirteen […]

Causeway showed they are real contenders after a convincing victory over Ballyduff in Austin Stack Park yesterday. Mike O’Halloran reports… Causeway 0-19 Ballyduff 0-08 Causeway have qualified for the semi final of the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship against St Brendan’s next weekend, with a complete demolition of Ballyduff. […]

Mike O’Halloran saw Kilmoyley advance to the semi-finals of the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SHC after a hard fought win over Crotta O’Neills yesterday in Austin Stack Park… Kilmoyley 1-19 Crotta O’Neills 1-11 (after extra time) Kilmoyley overcame Crotta O’Neills in a dour struggle in extra time. It ended 1-10 each […]

Mike O’Halloran looks at the two knock-out games in the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship this Saturday evening in Austin Stack Park… There are two games down for decision on Saturday evening, Ballyduff take on Causeway at 5pm with Kilmoyley pitting their wits against Crotta O’Neills at 7pm. The […]

Mike O’Halloran watched St Brendan’s just get over the line against Crotta in the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SHC Round 2 replay yesterday in Austin Stack Park… St Brendans 2-11 Crotta O’Neills 1-13 Crotta O’Neills haven’t exited the championship with this one point loss today but it must surely put a […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Austin Stack Park on Sunday to see Kilmoyley and Lixnaw advance in the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship… Kilmoyley 3-21 Abbeydorney 1-16 Kilmoyley progressed to the next round of the Kerry SHC with an eleven point win over Abbeydorney. Abbeydorney opened the brighter and led by one […]

Mike O’Halloran was at the two Kerry Senior Hurling Championship games in Austin Stack Park on Saturday… Ballyduff 4-30 Ballyheigue 0-07 An easy win for Ballyduff in their game with Ballyheigue. Ballyheigue battled away until the end, but the game was over after about 20 minutes when Ballyduff led by […]

Mike O’Halloran watched the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship First Round replay between Crotta and Ballyduff at Austin Stack Park on Friday evening… Crotta O’Neills 1-16 Ballyduff 0-10 A comprehensive and well deserved win for Crotta over Ballyduff last night at Austin Stack Park. Crotta blitzed Ballyduff in the […]

AFTER a hectic first weekend of games in the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship, the draw for the next round of matches was made this afternoon live on Radio Kerry. In the Round 2 (winners),  St Brendans will take on the winners of the Ballyduff/Crotta replay, while Lixnaw will face […]

Mike O’Halloran looks back on the weekend’s hurling action and what it could mean for the rest of the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship… IN round one of the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship, Ballyduff pulled off a draw (1-20 each) against Crotta when it looked like Crotta were going […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Mullingar on Saturday to witness a gutsy Kerry defeat Westmeath in the Joe McDonagh Cup Round 2 game… Kerry 1-21 Westmeath 2-16 What a day in Mullingar! Kerry banished the ghost of the defeat to Antrim with a brilliant win over Westmeath in their home ground. […]

Mike O’Halloran was in London to see Kerry record a facile win against the home side in the Allianz National League Division 2A game… Kerry 3-27 London 1-11 An easy enough win for Kerry in Ruislip where they overcame London by 22 points. Sean Weir captained the side, Jason Diggins […]

THE Kerry Team to play London in Round 4 of the Allianz Hurling League on Saturday at 2pm in McGovern Park, Ruislip is as follows: 1. (GK) John B O’Halloran, Kilmoyley 2. Seán Weir, Crotta O’Neill’s 3. Bryan Murphy, Causeway 4. Eric Leen, St Brendan’s 5. James O’Connor, Abbeydorney 6. Michael Boyle, Ballyduff. 7. Tomás O’Connor, Crotta O’Neill’s 8. Daniel Collins, Kilmoyley 9. Brandon […]

Mike O’Halloran was  in Austin Stack Park to see Kerry beat Mayo convincingly this afternoon… Kerry 3-18 Mayo 0-9 A PRETTY easy win for a much changed Kerry hurling team over Mayo in Tralee in this Division 2A league game. Kerry lined out without their scorer-in-chief Shane Conway and ended […]

Mike O’Halloran reflects on how Kerry lost against Westmeath on Sunday in Austin Stack Park… Kerry 2-17 Westmeath 4-13 With 52 minutes on the clock Kerry were six points ahead and looking like they would gather another two points from the lakesiders. They led on a scoreline of Kerry 1-14 […]

KERRY take on Antrim on Saturday in the Allianz Hurling League Division 2A opening game at 2pm in Corrigan Park in Belfast. The team is as follows; 1. Martin Stackpoole capt (Lixnaw) 2. Sean Weir (Crotta O’Neills) 3. Bryan Murphy (Causeway) 4. Eric Leen (St Brendan’s) 5. Jason Diggins (Causeway) 6. […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Austin Stack Park on Thursday night to see Kerry take on the All-Ireland champions in the The C0-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League… Limerick 4-14 Kerry 0-11 The All Ireland Hurling champions came to Tralee last night to take on Kerry in The C0-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League. […]

Mike O’Halloran watched Lixnaw in the Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Semi-Final yesterday… Lixnaw 0-11 Charleville 1-17 There was to be no yellow brick road to the Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Final for Lixnaw when the went down to Charleville in Hermitage Park on Saturday. Lixnaw led by four points after nine […]

Mike O’Halloran reports on Austin Stacks win in the South Kerry Junior Hurling Championship… Austin Stacks 0-13 Duagh 0-12 Austin Stacks are the 2018 South Kerry Junior Hurling Champions, they had a one point win over Duagh in the manicured sod of Abbeydorney GAA grounds. In a game which had […]

THE Kerry Hurling All Stars Presentation which was postponed as a mark of respect to the family of the Lixnaw G.A.A Chairman Paul Wallace has been rescheduled, and will now take place on this Friday night, October 19, in the Abbeydorney G.A.A Complex, with proceedings commencing at 8pm. The concept […]

Mike O’Halloran reports on the Acorn Life County Under 21 Hurling Championship semi-final on Sunday at Austin Stack Park… Crotta O’Neill 3-16 Kenmare/Kilgarvan 2-18 Kenmare/Kilgarvan came within a whisker of bringing this game to extra time as Donal O’Sullivan who was most impressive all day missed two frees at the […]

Michael O’Halloran watched Ballyheigue become Junior Hurling County Champions last night… Ballyheigue 3-8 Duagh 1-9 Ballyheigue are the 2018 Garvey’s SuperValu Junior Hurling Champions after defeating Duagh on the perfect sod that is Abbeydorney GAA grounds. A foul on Ger Guerin presented him with a point from the free. Michael Boxer […]

TRALEE is set to host two big Saturday night games in the Allianz National Football League according to a provisional list of fixtures released today. The fixtures are not finalised but have been distributed as part of a consultation process to counties. It sees Kerry footballers play four home league […]

LIXNAW and Kilmoyley battled it out yesterday in the county senior hurling final and it was a tense affair. Deep into injury-time Kilmoyley were two points down but were awarded a penalty. However, the penalty was saved and the referee immediately blew his whistle for full-time before a Kilmoyley player […]

Mike O’Halloran reports on today’s Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship Final at Austin Stack Park… Lixnaw 1-16 Kilmoyley 2-11 IT was heartache for Kilmoyley as a saved penalty by Martin Stackpoole denied them victory with the final puck of the game. Well according to the referee it was the […]

Mike O’Halloran gives his verdict on the biggest day in Kerry hurling this Sunday at 3.15pm in Austin Stack Park… Kilmoyley take on Lixnaw on Sunday in the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry senior hurling final. Kilmoyley just got passed Ballyduff in the semi-final and have been building steadily under the influence of […]

Mike O’Halloran watched the two Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SHC semi-finals in Austin Stack Park… Lixnaw 1-17 Causeway 0-15 Lixnaw overcame a highly fancied Causeway team by five points in a game where Lixnaw backs were in no mood top allow the inside line any room or any time on the […]

IAN Brick has decided to step down as Kerry Under 21 hurling manager and selector with the senior team. The Kilmoyley clubman had worked with this squad since Under 14 level, winning 2 All-Ireland Minor titles along the way and leaves a squad with excellent talent and potential, many of […]