Finuge GAA Club has expressed its gratitude for the multiple messages of goodwill and support from other GAA clubs in the wake of a traumatic double injury incident involving two of their players in a Premier JFC game with Tralee side Na Gaeil in Finuge last Sunday.

Finuge GAA Club has expressed its gratitude for the multiple messages of goodwill and support from other GAA clubs in the wake of a traumatic double injury incident involving two of their players.

Waterford manager Tom McGlinchey has received an eight-week sideline ban after he chose not to contest the proposed suspension last night.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has offered a strong endorsement of the GAA’s Super 8 plan for next season — insisting it’s not the brief of a championship to cater for weaker counties.

The secretary always gets the tough jobs. Just ask Mike O’Riordan in Limerick.

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

Stephen O’Brien replaces Johnny Buckley in the only change to the Kerry side for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final with Kildare in Croke Park (2pm).

Austin Stacks 2-9 Dr Crokes 0-13: Goals win matches, they say, and this was well and truly borne out at Connolly Park yesterday evening where Austin Stacks overcame Dr Crokes in the Credit Union Senior Football League Division 1 Final (2014) after a game that went to extra-time.

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final

Dr Crokes enjoyed a facile victory over a decimated Kerins O’Rahilly’s side, 4-19 to 0-8, on Saturday to leapfrog them and reach top spot in the Division 1 table.

The Kerry GAA chairman has described Colm Cooper’s wait for the Player of the Year award as “mind-boggling”.

Kilcummin 0-13 Finuge 0-08

Owen Mulligan has stoked the flames of the sometimes bitter Tyrone-Kerry rivalry in his newly-released autobiography, Mugsy — My Story.

Kerins O’Rahillys set up a winner-takes-all clash with Austin Stacks in Division 1 of the county league thanks to a 0-12 to 1-9 draw with Killarney Legion on Saturday.

Champagne was flowing and there were pints on the house in a Kerry pub last night to celebrate a stylish off-course victory at Listowel Races.

Finuge 0-10 Rathmore 0-17

St Michael’s/Foilmore 1-11 Finuge 1-05

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.

Cookstown and Finuge are still awaiting word on whether they face any sanctions arising from February’s All-Ireland club intermediate final.

Tyrone defender Aidan McCrory has ramped up the rivalry between the Red Hands and Kerry ahead of the counties' Allianz Football League clash in Omagh on Sunday.

Seamus Scanlon insists Kerry are too experienced to be distracted from their mission of beating Tyrone in Omagh this Sunday.

ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 1: Kerry v Down

Cookstown and Finuge have been asked by the GAA to submit their video footage of last month’s All-Ireland intermediate club final as they investigate a spitting offence against Paul Galvin.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has said he feels problems with spitting in the association stem from a wider issue in society.

The GAA have confirmed they are investigating a possible spitting offence on Paul Galvin in last month’s All-Ireland intermediate club final between Finuge and Fr Rock’s, Cookstown.

Oisín McConville doesn’t subscribe to the theory that Kerry will have a long wait for another All-Ireland senior title win.

Finuge (Kerry) 0-9 Monasterevan (Kildare) 0-5

Kerry’s team for tomorrow’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary at Seán Treacy Park in Tipperary town shows four changes from the side that defeated Limerick in last week’s semi-final.

It’s going to be a busy weekend for Kerry senior football manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice.

Tipperary 1-12 Waterford 2-8 (After extra-time)

Damien Cahalane is the most notable inclusion in the Cork football side for Sunday’s McGrath Cup game with Cork IT.

Attendances at county championship games in Kerry can only be ‘maximised’ if they are played on Sundays, treasurer John Joe Carroll said at last night’s convention.

Finuge 1-05 St Vincent’s 0-05

Finuge (Kerry) 2-9 Pallasgreen (Limerick) 1-9

Finuge 0-08 Spa 0-08

Before he filled any one of the myriad of roles he has played for Kerry these past five years, Eamonn Fitzmaurice was a club footballer.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s new Kerry management team was formally unveiled last night, and will feature leading physical trainer Cian O’Neill as a selector.

After just one season in charge of the under-21’s, Eamonn Fitzmaurice was last night formally ratified as Kerry senior football manager for a three-year term in succession to Jack O’Connor.

Kerry 2-22 Clare 1-6

Limerick boss Maurice Horan has made two changes for Saturday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Clare while he is also able to call upon talisman John Galvin after the star midfielder reported fit following a cruciate ligament injury.

Kerry face Cork in Sunday’s Munster semi-final with 11 of the team that beat Tipperary last Sunday week. Bryan Sheehan has been ruled out with a knee injury, while there’s a recall for Kieran Donaghy, a used substitute in Thurles.

IN the decade since they last claimed the north Kerry senior football crown, Finuge have been repeatedly schooled in hard knocks.

KERRY star Paul Galvin and Kingdom U21 football boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice bid to fire Finuge to their first North Kerry SFC title since 2001 when they face Beale in tomorrow’s decider (Ballylongford, 2pm).