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PRO GAA Scene 2nd November 2016
Wednesday 02nd November, 2016
Glenbeigh-Glencar are Junior Premier ChampionsAfter some agonising defeats at Junior level over the years, Glenbeigh-Glencar finally came good when defeating Na Gaeil in the Castleisland Mart Junior Premier Championship Final Replay at a sun drenched Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday afternoon last. The winners laid the ground work for this victory in the first half when they outplayed their Tralee opponents to take an eight points lead to the dressing room and while Na...
PRO GAA Scene 26th October 2016
Wednesday 26th October, 2016
Kerry GAA Scene Wednesday 26th October 2016Kenmare are Intermediate ChampionsKenmare are the Castleisland Mart Intermediate football champions following an easier than expected victory over an injury plagued Templenoe side before a fine attendance of 2,558 at Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday last. Templenoe had first use of the wind but it was Kenmare who settled quicker and were 1-8 to no score to the good before their neighbours finally got on the scoresheet in the 33rd...
PRO GAA Scene 19th October 2016
Wednesday 19th October, 2016
Kerry GAA Scene Wednesday October 19thDr Crokes win 11th SFC TitleDr Crokes are the Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship champions following a thoroughly deserved seven points victory (2-16 to 1-12) over divisional side Kenmare District at a very wet Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney on Sunday last. With experienced players of the calibre of Eoin Brosnan, Ambrose O’Donovan, Colm Copper and Brian Looney in their ranks they had the perfect mix of youth and...
PRO GAA Scene October 12th 2016
Wednesday 12th October, 2016
Dr Crokes and Kenmare District contest the Garvey’s Supervalu Senior Football Championship FinalAll roads lead to Killarney’s Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday next when Dr Crokes and Kenmare District contest the Garvey’s Supervalu Senior County Football Championship Final. It’s a unique pairing in many ways. Dr Crokes, having contested five finals on the trot between 2009 and 2013, winning 4 in-a-row, will feel that is something of an eternity...
PRO GAA Scene October 5th 2016
Wednesday 05th October, 2016
Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship Quarter FinalsThe way is clear for the semi finals of the Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship following the playing of four quarter finals last weekend.Champions South Kerry were sent crashing out of the championship at Tralee’s Austin Stack Park on Saturday afternoon last by a never say die Dingle side who never gave up the ghost despite trailing by four points to the champions early in the second half....
PRO GAA Scene September 28th 2016
Wednesday 28th September, 2016
Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship Quarter Finals down for decision this weekendFootball followers in the county are in for a treat this weekend when the quarter finals of the Garveys SuperValu senior football championship are down for decision with two double bill in Tralee and Killarney.First up on Saturday in Tralee’s Austin Stack Park, is the meeting of Dr Crokes and Kerins O’Rahillys at 1:30pm followed by the meeting of reigning champions...
PRO GAA Scene 21st September 2016
Wednesday 21st September, 2016
Kerry are All Ireland Minor Champions for third year in a rowKerry’s Minor footballers completed a hat trick of All Ireland titles in the grade when overcoming a dogged Galway side in trying conditions at Croke Park on Sunday last. Kerry went into this game as raging favourites, a tag that is often very difficult to live up to, and were up against a side that set out their stall in a very defensive fashion, however, Kerry once again proved that they were the outstanding team...
PRO GAA Scene 14th September 2016
Wednesday 21st September, 2016
Kerry Minor Footballers take on Galway in All Ireland FinalSunday next will see the culmination of a long drawn out championship season for the Kerry Minor team when they take on Galway in Croke Park with a 1:15 throw-in. The road to Croke Park started way back on 13th of April in Dungarvan when Kerry got their season of to a good start with an emphatic victory over the local side. A month later, Kerry had six points to spare over Clare at Milltown-Malbay and they then had to wait...
PRO GAA Scene September 7th 2016
Wednesday 07th September, 2016
Eamonn Fitzmaurice reappointed as Kerry ManagerEamonn Fitzmaurice was re-appointed as Kerry senior football team manager for a further two year period at Tuesday evening’s County Committee meeting.The Finuge man was first appointed to take charge of the team for the 2013 season and following defeat by Dublin in last year’s All Ireland final he committed to stay on for a further year. This latest appointment will see him at the helm for a fifth year having led...
PRO GAA Scene August 31st 2016
Wednesday 31st August, 2016
Kerry come up short against DublinDespite a heroic performance from a Kerry team that many had predicted would be unable to compete with the All Ireland champions, the Kingdom still had to give best to Dublin at the end of a thrilling game at Croke Park on Sunday last. It took the challengers a long time to get into the game but when they did, approaching the break, they took a five point lead to the half time dressing room. Again in the third quarter Kerry were under severe pressure...
PRO GAA Scene August 24th 2016
Wednesday 24th August, 2016
Kerry face Dublin in Semi Final showdownNext Sunday’s much anticipated All Ireland semi final showdown between Kerry and Dublin in Croke Park is certainly a season defining game for both sides. It goes without saying that, when it comes to championship fare, Dublin have certainly turned the tables on Kerry in recent years and if losses to the Metropolitans in two All Ireland Finals and a semi final is not enough, just last April Kerry were also handed a drubbing in the...
PRO GAA Scene August 17th 2016
Wednesday 17th August, 2016
Scramble for semi final tickets hots upWith a Croke Park full house of over 82,000 spectators guaranteed, the scramble for tickets for the much anticipated All Ireland semi final meeting between Kerry and Dublin on August 28th is well and truly underway. On line tickets have been sold out and there has been a huge demand for tickets allocated through the county Board/Clubs. Kerry and Dublin have never failed to grab the imagination of their rival supporters and when you add in...
PRO GAA Scene August 10th 2016
Wednesday 10th August, 2016
Back to Back All Irelands for Kerry JuniorsKerry became the third team along with London and Cork, to record back to back Junior All Irelands titles following a comprehensive victory over Mayo at Croke Park on Saturday last (2-18 to 2-11). The victory of course was noteworthy in that it was achieved with a completely new panel of players this year, as per the rules of the competition, and the Kerry team management of Stephen Wallace, who has since indicated that he is stepping...
PRO GAA Scene August 3rd 2016
Wednesday 03rd August, 2016
Kerry await their semi final opponents following victory over ClareKerry are through to their fourth All Ireland semi final on the trot following an eleven points victory over a gallant Clare side in the quarter finals at Croke Park on Sunday last (2-16 to 0-11). Once Donnchadh Walsh struck for their first goal after twenty minutes or so, Kerry were on their way to victory and that superb goal by Darran O’Sullivan six minutes into the third quarter cemented that...
PRO GAA Scene July 27th 2016
Wednesday 27th July, 2016
Kerry Seniors take on Clare in All Ireland Quarter FinalKerry and Clare cross swords in the championship for the second time this year when they meet in the All Ireland Quarter Final on Sunday in Croke Park in the second game of a treble header that throws in at 2pm. It will be recalled that the sides met in the semi finals of the Munster championship on June 12th when Kerry had a nine points victory, 2-23 to 0-17 a game that saw Clare stunned by a goal in the first minute when Colm...
PRO GAA Scene July 20th 2016
Wednesday 20th July, 2016
Kerry Seniors and Minors in Croke Park Double BillThe Kerry Senior and Minor football teams will be doubly engaged in All Ireland Quarter finals in Croke Park on Sunday July 31st. Provincial winners, both Kerry and Galway, both of whom will be part of a treble bill at HQ on that day, still await their opponents in the Senior Quarter Finals. Kerry and Galway will be paired against the winners of the final two games in Round 4A of the Qualifiers. Those games go ahead this Saturday as...
PRO GAA Scene July 13th 2016
Wednesday 13th July, 2016
Garveys Supervalu Senior Football ChampionshipFollowing last weekend’s four Round 3 games, the way is clear for the quarter finals of the Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship. Paul Geaney continued his rich vein of goal scoring form when finding the net twice as Dingle disposed of the stubborn challenge of Milltown-Castlemaine in the opening game of a double bill at Austin Stack Park on Saturday last. The final score of 2-13 to 1-11 was probably a fair...
PRO GAA Scene July 6th 2016
Wednesday 06th July, 2016
Hat-trick of Munster Football titles for KerryThe last week was a good one for Kerry football sides when they claimed three Munster titles in vive days. Kerry Juniors set the ball rolling on Wednesday evening last when they defeated old rivals Cork and then on Sunday, the Kerry seniors and Minors completed the treble with victories over Tipperary and Cork respectively.Kerry Claim 78th Munster Senior Football titleKerry senior footballers claimed their 78th Munster...
PRO GAA Scene June 29th 2016
Wednesday 29th June, 2016
Kerry and Tipperary meet in the Munster FinalFew would have predicted at the start of the championship that Tipperary would be Kerry’s opponents in the Munster Football Championship final but that is exactly the way it has panned out with the Premier county upsetting the applecart when handing Cork a two points defeat in the semi final. The standout factor from that surprise victory by the Tipp men was the fact that they recovered at the death after surrendering a nine...
PRO GAA Scene June 22nd 2016
Wednesday 22nd June, 2016
Fitzgerald Stadium launches Development SchemeThe Fitzgerald Stadium Finance Committee has launched a new Development Scheme on the eve of yet another Munster Football final at the iconic Killarney venue. The new scheme, the 4th of it’s kind, aims to further enhance facilities at the Stadium on big match day bringing it right into contention as a host venue for the 2023 Rugby World Cup.The current Stadium capacity is 39,000 and it is fully compliant with all health...
PRO GAA Scene June 15th 2016
Wednesday 15th June, 2016
Kerry advance to another Munster FinalThe Kerry senior footballers comfortably advanced to another Munster final when disposing rather easily of the Clare challenge to win by an eleven points margin at sunny Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday afternoon last (2-22 to 0-17) before a fine attendance of 11,500. From the moment Colm Cooper’s speculative shot went all the way to the Clare net within a minute of the throw-in, there was never any doubt as to who the winner would be...
PRO GAA Scene June 8th 2016
Wednesday 08th June, 2016
Kerry play Clare in Munster GAA Football Championship semi finalKerry senior Footballers open their Munster and All Ireland senior football campaign on Sunday next with a Munster semi final meeting with Clare in Fitzgerald Stadium (3:30pm). It is hard to believe that nine months have gone by since that painful All Ireland defeat to Dublin and indeed, more psychological damage was inflicted on the Kerry players by the Dubs at the end of April when the Metropolitans repeated...
PRO GAA Scene June 1st 2016
Wednesday 01st June, 2016
Champions South Kerry Advance to quarter finals of Senior Football ChampionshipGoals either side of half time by Sean Cournane gave South Kerry a deserved victory in the Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship Round 2A Replay at Connolly Park on Saturday evening last. The winners led by 1-6 to 0-6 at the break with Cournane goaling with the last action of the first half and the same player effectively closed the game out scoring his second major with the first score of...
PRO GAA Scene May 25th 2016
Wednesday 25th May, 2016
A weekend of come backs in Round 2 of the Garvey’s Supervalu Senior Football ChampionshipWell after a rather mundane opening round of the Garveys Supervalu senior football championship, the competition certainly sprang to life in Round 2 last weekend where three of the eight games went to extra time and the standout fixture of the weekend, the meeting of the champions of the past two years South Kerry and Austin Stacks, ended in stalemate in Cahersiveen.An Ian Galvin...
PRO GAA Scene 18th May 2016
Wednesday 18th May, 2016
Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship is underwayThe Garveys Supervalu Senior Football Championship got underway last weekend in brilliant sunshine. As usual, the eight games played were a mixture ranging from the excellent fare served up by the likes of South Kerry and Kerins O’Rahillys to one or two disappointingly one sided games. The club teams, coming off four or five weeks of League and Club Championship action, do of course have a decided...
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