He now resides forever in the GAA Hall of Fame but Larry Tompkins came close to obscurity.

Last night Dave Mahedy closed his office door for the final time at the University of Limerick. As Director of Sport and Recreation, Mahedy has been the driving force behind the growth — and importance — of sport at all levels in UL for almost 30 years.

One of the country’s top sports science experts has warned there is a “great danger” rival counties will be unable to compete with Dublin in the years ahead unless they overhaul their development structures.

Tralee is buzzing for hoops. The Complex is gripped by Saturday night fever. Even football people are backing the basketball team in their droves and they’re not just following the Star. First cousins Darren and Fergal O’Sullivan are important figures in the Tralee success story. Ahead of tonight’s National Cup semi-final with Pyrobel Killester at the Mardyke Arena, they explain how a town became united behind the Warriors

Central Council delegates will discover tomorrow if one of Páraic Duffy’s last acts as GAA director general will be a recommended rulebook change to ban testimonials.

The motorist who died in a pile-up in the M7 on Wednesday evening has been named as Padhraic Moran, a well-known figure in the insurance industry and a cousin of former Kerry footballer Ogie Moran.

Matters to be resolved.

Afew simple but evocative lines from Ogie Moran on Mikey Sheehy’s Laochra Gael in 2012 that chime loudest now when considering his old team-mate’s incarnation as a Kerry selector.

A lavish fund-raising effort from Kerry GAA chiefs in New York, Chicago and Boston has helped put a €1 million dent in the cost of the Kingdom’s proposed Centre of Excellence at Currans, near Farranfore.

WHEN Kerry won one of the most dour and tactically conservative All-Ireland finals in recent memory, last September, it would have been easiest to have put it down to tradition. Kerry win All-Irelands because that is what Kerry traditionally do. 

There he is in typical pose, tearing out of defence at full stretch, about to hop the leather from his left hand and God help anyone blocking his path.

Anton Savage and Sheana Keane present new adult literacy series, Get the Numbers Write, on TV3 on Monday.

You have to reach back almost 40 years for Shannon Rangers football fairytales. The division — so far into north Kerry that Clare is closer than Tralee and Limerick is as close as Listowel — have more stories about carping than cups.

Marc Ó Sé says he doesn’t care if Kerry aren’t given the credit they deserve for their latest All-Ireland title because of their heritage.

HE still spins around Killarney on his bike at 55, looking as fresh as paint, uncreased by the stresses of life and Kerry’s roller-coaster ride to Croke Park.

Happiest man in Limerick on Saturday evening?

Longford man Paul Devaney caught the mountaineering bug by accident on a holiday trek to see Mount Everest in 2005. Nine years later he is back in its shadows but this time preparing to climb the highest peak on the planet as part of the seventh and final leg of an amazing journey around the world’s most challenging mountains.

He’s talking like an old pro now.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has praised the determination and resilience shown by young midfielder David Moran in coming back from an awful series of injuries.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan is not convinced by the round robin proposal aimed at raising the standard of the Munster senior football championship.

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KERRY will roll out a number of their football greats to business leaders in New York this week in a bid to drive funding for a state of the art GAA Centre of Excellence in the county.

TO illustrate the most pressing issue currently facing the GAA, Ogie Moran reflects on a photograph of what he describes as a Kerins O’Rahilly’s “dream team” that won the 2006 Kerry minor football championship.

Happy the bride the sun shines on, an old saying goes, and so it was yesterday for a radiant Hilary Stephenson who married Kerry footballer Kieran ‘Star’ Donaghy between the wintry showers in Waterville.

It was the kind of send-off he would have loved — a packed house, music, humour, sporting people, and, most importantly of all, friends from all over the country.

My earliest memory of Páidí Ó Sé is of a young lad in perpetual motion with ball in hand playing against the gable end of his house in Árd a’ Bhothair or soloing up the cosach, that picturesque little byroad to Dunquin.

A Kerry sheep farmer who drove his vintage tractor, Betsy, across America’s famous Route 66 last month has so far raised €25,000 for cancer research.

The late Con Houlihan had “an extraordinary pride of place”.

Former GAA president, Sean Kelly, said Croke Park was missing a great opportunity on All-Ireland final days by not allowing mascots parade with the competing teams.

Kerry footballer David Moran will undergo his second cruciate knee ligament operation in less than 12 months tomorrow.

THE Mayor of Limerick last night called for a boycott of RTE’s Rose of Tralee coverage over the organiser’s repeated “disgraceful snub” to the third city of the Republic.

It has been confirmed that young Kerry midfielder David Moran suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury in yesterday's Division 1 victory over Monaghan in Inniskeen.

AS PHILIP LARKIN once said, there comes a time when you start saying ‘30 years ago’, and it’s a shock to realise you’re talking about your own life.

THE availability of David Moran could be the decisive factor when Kerins O’Rahillys and Kilmurry-Ibrickane face off in tomorrow’s Munster club football final in the Gaelic Grounds.

KERINS O’RAHILLYS have two options ahead of tomorrow’s Munster Club mission against Tipperary champions Moyle Rovers.

Kerins O’Rahillys (Kerry) 1-11 Clonakilty (Cork) 0-10

THEY may be still savouring last month’s 36th All-Ireland football title, but Kerry have suffered an early blow for 2010 with confirmation that Tommy Walsh has agreed a preliminary agreement with AFL outfit St Kilda. His club and inter-county colleague David Moran has also been offered an early trial with the same club.

SO THEY never come back? Well, that might apply generally but there are several examples from Muhammad Ali all the way down to Jack O’Connor, who was installed as the new Kerry manager last night.

IN THEIR curmudgeonly moments, Kerry football supporters like to berate Mick O’Dwyer for his loyalty to the Golden Year greats at the expense of those hoping to prolong the Kingdom’s monopoly of the 70’s and 80’s.

Limerick's footballers got their season off to a winning start when they proved far too strong for Tralee IT in a 2-11 to 1-07 victory at Moyvane this afternoon.

A tiny Kerry club with huge ambition lines out on the GAA’s biggest stage tonight in Croke Park.

Those who point to the new phenomenon of blue collar half-forward should remember that Kerry's Liam Hassett has been toiling in that role for almost a decade. Colm O'Connor spoke to him.

Colm O'Connor looks at the enduring appeal of the last GAA championship final of the year. ON SUNDAY, sports followers of all persuasions will speed past a golfing wonder of the world to get a ringside seat on an hour of local squabbling in Ballybunion.

Kerry 0-13 Cork 1-7

Paul Galvin isn’t the first tough-tackling Kerry forward, but he’s an exception to the rule of thumb for Kingdom attackers. And that’s the way he likes it. Tony Leen reports.

Kerry’s Seamus Moynihan remains ones of the game’s elite - even if the demands increase every season. He spoke to Tony Leen.