Kerry GAA chiefs have agreed to be more flexible in their enforcement of the parish rule so as to assist rural clubs at risk of extinction.

Kerry GAA chairman Tim Murphy has said the main governance challenge facing the association is volunteers being held to account in areas where they may not have sufficient expertise.

While almost €18 million has been announced for road works in Kerry, a row has broken out as the vast bulk of the money has been allocated for improvement works in south and west Kerry.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a local group over its failed challenge to An Bord Pleanala's permission for a €46m wind farm close to the village of Lixnaw in Co Kerry.

Ballydonoghue 5-9 St Senan’s 0-8: Before the start of yesterday’s North Kerry SFC final, Raymond McGibney of the Irish Defence Forces stood underneath the tricolour and read out the 1916 proclamation. The Ballydonoghue rising, joint-manager Denis Lynch would tell us afterwards, was five years in the making and ended with a first divisional title in almost a quarter of a century.

Those in the hinterland of North Kerry are billing it as the game of the year.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan has defended the decision of the board executive not to stage a homecoming for the county’s victorious minor footballers.

Kerry SFC Rd 2B - Kerins O’Rahillys 3-11 Feale Rangers 1-11: Hard to know which of their opening two games in this year’s Kerry SFC Kerins O’Rahillys should use as a reference point going forward to Round 3.

St Kieran’s 1-17 Feale Rangers 1-15: A double substitution midway through the second half turned this game in favour of St Kieran’s in Cordal yesterday.

He’ll still line out when the need requires, as was evidenced by his cameo appearance during St Marys’ Division 2 league game against Gneeveguilla in early December, but for some time now Maurice Fitzgerald has been swayed by the “natural pull” of management.

A leading greenway promoter has called for more joined-up thinking as plans progress for several such walking and cycling trails around the country.

St Kieran’s 2-10 Feale Rangers 0-8: St Kieran’s blew pitiful Feale Rangers aside in this one-sided Kerry Senior Football Championship tie in Cordal on Saturday night.

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.

Brosna 0-15 Glin 2-6

Interviews with managers of sides playing in provincial club finals tend to follow a pattern.

WHAT would Kerry have done if Eamonn Fitzmaurice had said No?

AIB Munster Club JFC: Brosna (Kerry)1-10 Millstreet (Cork) 0-8

Mid Kerry 1-12 Shannon Rangers 0-7

You have to reach back almost 40 years for Shannon Rangers football fairytales. The division — so far into north Kerry that Clare is closer than Tralee and Limerick is as close as Listowel — have more stories about carping than cups.

In early November 1915, on the weekend of the All-Ireland final, the Tralee Republican leader Austin Stack dispatched three men disguised as Kerry football supporters to Dublin.

Listowel Emmets 1-8 C’island Desmonds 0-10

Lixnaw 3-10 Ballyduff 0-07

Feale Rangers 0-19 Mid Kerry 1-15 (aet)

CHRISTY RING FINAL:

AIB ALL-IRELAND CLUB SHC SEMI-FINAL

“I hate to paint a bleak picture,” says Diarmuid Ó Se, “but I don’t have to. It paints itself.”

Duagh 0-9 Beale 0-6

Here’s the conventional viewpoint: these sides are coming into tomorrow’s Munster final from very different backgrounds. Champions, Dr Crokes are in their third consecutive final, while the Cork champions have ended a nine-year wait at county level and are seeking a first provincial win in 15 years.

Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice, inset, will call time on his own playing career if Finuge lose to Cork Premier IFC winners St Vincent’s in tomorrow’s Munster Club intermediate football final.

Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice suffered a fractured jaw in Finuge’s County IFC final victory over Spa on Sunday.

Spa bid to ensure there is no repeat of their dreadful finish to the drawn Kerry IFC final when they face Finuge in tomorrow’s replay (Austin Stack Park, 2.30pm)

No, she’s not related to him. She might be a Galvin, from Finuge, that plays football for Kerry with an astonishing intensity rampaging between the half-back and half-forward lines, so she can understand why you would assume that connection but, as it happens, they’re don’t really know each other.

Dingle 2-12 Feale Rangers 1-13

Tipperary’s greater scoring power was the key factor as they overcame Cork Rebel Óg to capture the Humphrey Kelleher Memorial Cup at Millstreet on Saturday.

A decision by the energy commissioner is threatening hundreds of jobs and €500m project earmarked for north Kerry.

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.

Antrim manager Jerry Wallis has stepped down as manager of Kerry SHC champions Ballyduff.

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

JIMMY DEENIHAN, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and former Kerry All-Ireland-winning captain, launched his book, My Sporting Life, last night in Cork with the aid of a former opponent, Rebel County dual legend Jimmy Barry-Murphy.