John Fogarty previews Division 1 of the Allianz Football League.

A full 118 days on from losing the All-Ireland to Dublin, and 15 from facing them all over again at Croke Park in the Allianz League, Stephen O’Brien is over the deepest of the heartache but is still regretful.

Dr Crokes will play East Kerry in next Sunday’s Kerry SFC final after getting the better of South Kerry in today’s semi-final replay.

The Kerry squad’s last link to their 2006 and 2007 All-Ireland successes has been broken with the retirement of Killian Young.

The Kingdom's longest-serving player ends his inter-county career after 14 years in the green and gold.

Seventeen Kerry players are in line to make their All-Ireland senior final debut on Sunday afternoon.

Amazing the things you pick up while out and about.

Kerry manager Peter Keane has dampened any speculation that star Kerry attacker James O’Donoghue, who missed the Munster final win over Cork, might miss Kerry’s crucial Super 8s meeting with Mayo on Sunday, revealing that the Legion clubman is suffering no ill-effects in training.

Five years ago, it wasn’t indifference that stopped Kerry supporters from travelling to Páirc Uí Chaoimh, it was dread.

Kerry manager Peter Keane had mixed news regarding the county’s walking wounded as they prepare to face Mayo in a crucial Allianz NFL clash at a sold out Austin Stack Park on Saturday night.

Seán O’Shea may only be 20 but he’s clued in enough to know what’s expected of Kerry this year irrespective of them losing so many veterans.

It was hardly the most glamorous of stages on which to take your last bow: A wet and windswept Lispole providing the backdrop for Marc Ó Sé’s final outing in a Gaeltacht jersey, his final outing full stop.

Kerry football is experiencing one of their greatest exoduses as Darran O’Sullivan yesterday became the fourth player in five weeks to retire from the inter-county scene.

"I can definitely see him successfully managing Kerry teams in the future," said Éamonn Fitzmaurice.

In the end, it was all too comfortable for Kerry. But it mattered little, the result they needed from Pearse Stadium didn't materialise.

In the build-up to yesterday, Éamonn Fitzmaurice spoke about the lack of nuance among those commentating on the game of Gaelic football right now.

What an amazing spectacle in Thurles yesterday and James McGrath can believe he contributed to it, writes Brian Gavin.

Five Munster finals, four wins and one draw; Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s championship managerial record against Cork is almost as good as it gets.

Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice may be giving youth its fling this summer, but he’s still looking to the old guard to help shape the Kingdom’s Championship destiny.

The Dublin footballers are every bit as defensive as Galway, Tribes captain Damien Comer has insisted.

A fractured relationship exists between the Kerry football management and supporters of the team, Kingdom boss Éamonn Fitzmaurice has admitted.

The interview with Éamonn Fitzmaurice wasn’t 40 seconds old when the Kerry manager first made reference to a “three-year plan”.

I’ll ask the question: How much have Kerry actually progressed in 12 months? Have they found senior-ready players? No.

What is it with Mayo and their management? They continue to display an incredible propensity for making things as difficult as they can for themselves.

John Fogarty considers the selection issues facing the Kerry and Mayo management teams ahead of Sunday’s All -Ireland SFC semi-final.

Killian Young has been ambushed before. And the experienced defender insists Kerry will travel to Croke Park on Sunday on high alert for a Galway heist.

Too many games is never a bad complaint but this past weekend’s inter-county GAA action and affairs takes a lot of digesting.

Kieran Donaghy has been selected at full-forward for Sunday’s Munster SFC final against Cork in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

A league final like no other. A league final so pregnant with significance that it was bound to deliver.

Our writers tackle the talking points for a busy weekend of Allianz League action in hurling and football.

It didn’t require a trained lip-reader to decipher the sentiments of the Kerry players at the final whistle in Tralee, two words repeated and rhyming with book it.

Kerry defender Killian Young has defended the decision to host Saturday’s blockbuster Allianz football league tie with Dublin at Austin Stack Park in Tralee and not Killarney.

Roscommon 1-13 Kerry 1-19: Panic over for Kerry. For now, anyway. Lose this and Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s men would have spent the two weeks to Dublin’s visit to Tralee entrenched in the Division 1 relegation zone.

Kerry, who travel to Dr Hyde Park to face Roscommon in Division 1 of the Allianz FL tomorrow (2pm), have two changes in personnel, as well as a number of positional switches, following their loss to Monaghan.

Allianz FL Division 1

Kerry’s dreadful early home league record continued in Tralee this evening when they were reeled in by a more purposeful Mayo effort.

An American passport holder, Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan was entitled to vote in Tuesday’s Presidential Election but chose not to.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Kerry defender Killian Young has revealed his deep frustration with the ongoing targeting of the county’s best young players by Australian Rules clubs.

Kerry captain Killian Young has called on the GPA to use their guaranteed motion next February to try and change the structure of the All-Ireland senior football championship.