Football legend Larry Tompkins spent two days in a coma as a 20-year-old after a foul blow in a championship game in Kildare with his home club, Eadestown.

As a loyal Kildare servant, Damien Hendy has become accustomed to criticism.

THE Kildare IFC quarter-finals are unlikely to take place this weekend as Monasterevin prepare to appeal a result to the Leinster Council.

Top-scoring forward and captain John Doyle is back in training with Kildare ahead of Sunday week's Leinster SFC quarter-final with Offaly.