Dr Crokes, even without Colm Cooper, Fionn Fitzgerald, Chris Brady and Ambrose O’Donovan, proved too strong for intermediate champions Currow in yesterday’s East Kerry SFC semi-final.

Dr Crokes 3-9 Rathmore 2-10

Dr Crokes 1-13 Austin Stacks 0-8

BRIAN LOONEY was Dr Crokes’ hero as the Munster senior club champions won the East Kerry (O’Donoghue Cup) senior championship for the sixth year in-a-row yesterday.

RATHMORE’S victory in the East Kerry senior championship (O’Donoghue Cup) semi-final replay over Currow yesterday came at a cost with Aidan O’Mahony suspended for the district final against Dr Crokes.

MUNSTER senior club champions Dr Crokes are on course for a sixth East Kerry (O’Donoghue Cup) championship in a row after a terrific second-half performance ended Glenflesk’s hopes of a shock semi-final upset at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney yesterday.

BACK when he was still coaching both Kerry and Dr Crokes, Pat O’Shea recommended a book on Michael Jordan to his Kerry players.

KINGDOM great Seamus Moynihan is making a shock return to Kerry SFC action on Saturday.

KILMACUD CROKES star Ross O’Carroll has admitted his brother, All-Star nominee Rory, will miss the crucial Leinster club semi-final against Garrycastle on Sunday week.

DR Crokes midfielder Ambrose O’Donovan has been ruled out of next Sunday’s Munster Club SFC quarter-final against Limerick champions Monaleen after sustaining a back injury in a car crash last Friday night.

DISAPPOINTMENT, like charity, starts at home. Sunday was a wicked, raw day, the kind of day you wouldn’t put a dog out. Well whatever about dogs, the club footballers and hurlers were out in their thousands on the playing fields of Ireland.

WHAT nonsense was coming from Croke Park about the proposed game to mark the 150th anniversary of St Colman’s College?

MICHAEL CUSSEN looks set to feature for Munster in Saturday night’s Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Senior Football final in Portlaoise against Connacht, despite being involved with Sarsfields in the first round of the Munster Club SHC on Sunday.

The Story of the O’Donoghue Cup, 1954-2003 is published this week to mark the golden jubilee of the trophy presented annually to the winners of the East Kerry senior football championship.