Jack O’Connor has hit out at the rule preventing David Clifford and Seán O’Shea from playing with the Kerry U20s this year.

It’s what the younger generation call FOMO (fear of missing out).

When 23-year-old Ballyduff man Pat Joe Connolly is asked to reflect on where his hurling career is about to take him, he momentarily pauses to search for the appropriate words.

Kerry captain Bryan Sheehan believes the All-Ireland SFC is in “dire need” of a revamp, calling for a condensed summer schedule.

Easter Saturday, Macroom; the shifting of a collective mindset.

Hastings Cup

Munster MFC Final:

Pat Spillane fears Kerry may already be close to halfway into another 11-year spell without an All-Ireland title.

Kerry U21 football selector Harry O’Neill believes the Kingdom have fallen behind Cork in the underage stakes.

Seamus Moynihan believes the possibility of Kerry playing Paul Galvin centre-back could “re-energise” the Finuge man.

“Don’t let the game pass you by. Don’t worry about the outcome, worry about the job at hand. What are you going to do? Thinking about winning doesn’t mean you are going to win. Don’t sit back and wait for it.”

Though originally from Cloughduv in Cork, Mike Leahy is now undeniably a St Brendan’s man, having taught in the Killarney college for 30 years.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice doesn’t do public rage. In fact, he’s impossibly and unfailingly polite.

Jack O’Connor has coaxed Eamonn Fitzmaurice back into Kerry’s management set-up for the championship.

JOHN KENNEDY is back on a familiar journey. During the three years that spanned his spell as Clare senior football manager earlier this decade, Kennedy was well-accustomed to the trip from his north Kerry home to the west coast of the Banner County.

WHEN Ballyduff take to the field this Sunday in the Munster IHC final they will be rounding off a memorable year for hurling fans in the Kingdom.

DR CROKES will attempt to complete a three in a row of Kerry senior titles next year, a feat the club previously achieved between 1912 and 1914, yet the man at the helm of their recent triumphs is unlikely to be guiding them.

IT’S been the most frequent fixture in the football championship over the last decade but there will not be too many survivors from Cork and Kerry’s summer clashes on show at a chilly Austin Stack Park tonight in the McGrath Cup.

HE’D been there already, pacing the line as Kerry hurling manager, and there had been spells afterwards as a Cork selector, and as Wexford manager. When John Meyler was asked earlier this year to take the Kerry U21s for a few sessions, he saw green shoots for the Kingdom seniors. He went back.

NEW Kerry goalkeeper Brendan Kealy believes the county have to look at “the bigger picture” this season as their new-look squad comes to terms with a number of absentees from last year’s campaign.

EIGHTEEN years after his first incarnation as Kerry hurling supremo, John Meyler returns to familiar ground this weekend.

YOU KNOW you’re getting old when the policemen start looking young. But what about a footballer who’s practically a veteran after just two seasons of senior intercounty action?

THE great imponderable. Will it be holders Kerry after their five games, or Tyrone in their tenth, who will benefit most in Croke Park on Sunday from their different routes to the All-Ireland SFC final.

A year ago, few had heard of Paul Galvin. Now, the Kerry Allstar is facing a new set of challenges. He spoke to Jim O'Sullivan.

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.

PRIOR to 2002, it was easy for Limerick football supporters to recall the good days, simply because there were so few of them!