Dr Crokes pummeled Kilcummin 4-17 to 0-7 in the opening round of the Kerry senior club championship on Saturday night.

Irish Volunteers were trailed around Cork by Royal Irish Constabulary on a miserably wet Easter Sunday 1916, writes Niall Murray

Kerry’s James O’Donoghue has undergone surgery on a shoulder problem, and is set for an extensive period of rehabilitation before being available to the beaten All-Ireland finalists in 2016.

Kilmoyley 3-15 St Brendan’s, Ardfert 1-13: Kilmoyley overwhelmed a lethargic St Brendan’s to claim their 23rd Kerry SHC title - and move one behind table toppers Ballyduff in the roll of hour - at Abbeydorney yesterday.

Kilmoyley boss John Meyler insists tomorrow’s county hurling final with St Brendan’s (Abbeydorney, 2.30pm) is too close to call.

Stephen Wallace holds only fond memories of Croke Park.

All-Ireland JFC final

Feale Rangers 3-9 Ardfert 1-11:

Munster JFC semi-final

Kerry 1-20 Derry 0-12: They perhaps left their best hurling behind them in Newbridge a week earlier but when you’ve also left two Christy Ring Cup finals behind you, winning is all that matters.

West Kerry Board chairman Muiris Ó Fiannachta has accused Kerry GAA decision-makers of lacking common sense in their handling of the county’s senior football championship round 2 fixtures.

Dr Crokes and Austin Stacks join Rathmore in the Kerry Senior Club Championship semi-finals after wins over Killarney Legion and Ardfert respectively.

Sean Kelly thinks it would be "a disaster" for the GAA to run off all its fixtures in the one calendar year.

AIB All-Ireland Club IFC Final: Ardfert (Kerry) 1-14 St Croan’s (Roscommon) 0-9: David Griffin recalls sitting in the Hogan Stand as a 13-year old boy, a proud spectator as Ardfert’s claimed the All-Ireland Club intermediate title in 2007.

Pat O’Driscoll pointed to David Griffin’s first-half goal as the decisive score in Ardfert’s latest All-Ireland intermediate triumph.

Ardfert celebrated a third All-Ireland club football crown this evening, the North Kerry club easing past the challenge of St Croan’s to secure the intermediate title at GAA HQ.

Ardfert (Kerry) 1-8 St Peter’s, Warrenpoint (Down) 0-10: AIB All-Ireland Club IFC semi-final: Pat O’Driscoll spent most of January watching videos of Warrenpoint’s Ulster club championship campaign.

Kerry County Board chairman Patrick O’Sullivan believes that this year’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay showed that big championship games can be held outside Croke Park.

Ardfert 1-12 Spa 0-10 (after extra time)

Ballina (Tipperary) 3-19 St Brendan’s Ardfert (Kerry) 0-15

St Brendan’s 0-13 Lixnaw 0-08

Dr Crokes, despite the absence of Colm Cooper, secured their second win of the County League Division One campaign with a 1-15 to 0-8 defeat of Rathmore yesterday.

LIT Tipperary 1-25 IT Tralee 2-09

HE was described as “a very hard bas***d” last night by his Kerry colleague Paul Galvin, but one of the toughest calls Seamus Scanlon had to make was the weekend decision to walk away from inter-county football at 30.

Kerry defeated Sligo in a senior football challenge at Rathkeale on Saturday, with Bryan Sheehan featuring for the first time since the Kingdom’s Munster championship victory over Tipperary.

Austin Stacks remain top of Kerry Senior Football League Division 1 after a derby victory (2-12 to 2-9) over Tralee rivals Kerins O’Rahillys on Saturday.

Defending Kerry senior club champions Rathmore withstood a late Killarney Legion onslaught before winning their quarter-final, 1-10 to 0-12, on Saturday night with Legion missing two goal chances late on.

All-Ireland intermediate football champions Milltown/Castlemaine had plenty of reasons to celebrate after their latest Kerry SFL victory.

He may have lost his unbeaten tag but Milldean Panther remains the talk of the greyhound world and he will attempt to get back on the winning rails when he contests the final of the €30,000 SIS Live Shelbourne Gold Cup on Saturday night.

HE has accumulated plenty honours at divisional and county level but it has taken 26 championship seasons before Joe Daly has realised that dream in the provincial arena.

TIPPERARY senior hurler Paul Curran will miss his club Mullinahone’s Munster IFC final against Kerry outfit Milltown/Castlemaine next Sunday as he is away on his honeymoon.

A selection of starter homes from around the country

TOMMY WALSH will not make a sensational return to Kerry football next season as he is set to sign a new contract with his AFL club St Kilda.

CORK

KILCUMMIN just about survived one of the most dramatic comebacks witnessed in the Kerry SFC over the last few years when they edged out Ardfert in a second round thriller last night.

EOIN BROSNAN offers a revealing insight into Dr Crokes’ Munster Club SFC final opponents, Nemo Rangers, by way of club colleague and former Kerry coach, Pat O’Shea.

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl allegedly brain damaged at birth secured €2 million in part settlement of her claim in the High Court yesterday. The settlement was without admission of liability by the Health Service Executive (HSE).

FORMER Kerry star forward Mike Frank Russell scored 1-4 as Laune Rangers booked their place in the third round of the AIB Kerry SFC at the expense of Spa.

MARC O SÉ is a fresh injury concern for Kerry coach Jack O’Connor as the Kingdom finalise preparations for Sunday’s Munster SFC clash with Tipperary in Thurles.