ALL-Ireland winner and former Kerry selector Diarmuid Murphy admitted Sunday that both Dingle and East Kerry would be “out of their minds” trying to get to a Kerry SFC final - but insisted that the scenes which married the semi final replay between the teams in Tralee had not come from managerial instruction.

Perhaps we could cut straight to the last 15 minutes or so.

The Dublin County Board may have to embark on a charm offensive if they want Mattie Kenny to take over from Pat Gilroy as their senior hurling manager.

The prospect of a compromise management team taking over the reins of Kerry senior football reins has become a possibility.

On the basis that former manager Pat O’Shea and Laois boss John Sugrue are unavailable or not interested and potential candidates for the future like Declan O’Sullivan and Seamus Moynihan aren’t ready, the shortlist to be the next Kerry football manager is just that — short.

Irish people spend two and a half months of their lives queuing for lunch or coffee.

The Offaly banter is nothing new to Brendan Kealy — he’s been hearing it for years at this stage.

Promo Pads founder Diarmuid Murphy is hugely excited about the prospects for the Dine tabletop system, writes Trish Dromey.

The chronology of Tadhg Morley, the Kerry footballer, runs in predictably straight lines.

Kieran Donaghy has admitted that the prospect of sharing the Kerry dressing room with Maurice Fitzgerald could convince him to give it one more year in the green and gold.

The name of Maurice Fitzgerald was ratified as Diarmuid Murphy’s replacement as a Kerry senior selector at last night’s County Committee meeting held at IT Tralee.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has tipped his former Kerry selector Diarmuid Murphy for a future in management after the Dingle man stepped down from his role yesterday.

If Éamonn Fitzmaurice thought Kerry’s backroom team was getting too friendly, he knew there was one addition who wouldn’t be slow to throw in a scud or two in the dressing room. In Liam Hassett’s lexicon, ‘beaten’ doesn’t exist...

Country came to town last Sunday as a tourist town celebrated its new streetscape after months of upheaval due to resurfacing and drainage works.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice will continue as Kerry senior football manager into 2016.

So, what do the All Blacks who departed Auckland airport a few days ago for Rugby World Cup 2015 and the Kerry footballers who will set off for Dublin on Saturday for this year’s All Ireland Football Final have in common?

Just moments before the senior semi-final throw-in last Sunday, the winning Kerry minor squad appeared from under the Hogan Stand and walked up past the senior subs to take their position close by. They had been the appetiser, a tasty one at that. Now they had ringside seats to get a full appreciation of what their future may hold.

Ulster champion Thomas Mackle beat Christy Mullins on Sunday in the feature score of the benefit festival for the cancer unit at Cork University Hospital in Shannonvale.

Afew simple but evocative lines from Ogie Moran on Mikey Sheehy’s Laochra Gael in 2012 that chime loudest now when considering his old team-mate’s incarnation as a Kerry selector.

We can thank US sport for “The Big Mo”. Kildare have it and Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice is well aware of it as Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final joust with the Lilywhites in Croke Park looms.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice insists too much is being made of his selection policy.

It’s either the worst view of the field or the best.

It was just last month that Ciaran Whelan highlighted the ‘new’ kick-out phenomenon. Well, not all that new.

Colman Corrigan says Tomás Ó Sé’s damning comments about Cork will be more unwelcome in Kerry and should add a couple of points to Brian Cuthbert’s team’s score in next month’s Munster final.

For some reason, I was never overly fond of the word ‘mobility’. 

Paul Galvin’s former Kerry team-mate Sean O’Sullivan has questioned why the 35-year-old has surprisingly chosen to revive his inter-county career.

The great revival is well underway in West Kerry schools football. 

It would be one for any coach’s curriculum vitae: managing All-Ireland champions Kerry in their first outing since September’s success against Donegal.

Hastings Cup

By Cóilín Duffy

"Those lads may play with Kerry for another dozen years, and they will never experience something like that again," says Kerry keeper-turned-selector Diarmuid Murphy.

Before Kerry faced Galway in Croke Park, their coach was scraped up, stretched out, then eased across the back seat of a car.

Inter-gaeltacht friendly rivalries will be aired as Kerry face Donegal, writes Donal Hickey

This was a mad game of Gaelic football.

Cork 0-12 Kerry 0-24