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.

All-Ireland football semi-final day. Home in front of the telly.

Seamus Darby, scorer of the most famous goal in GAA history, has paid tribute to the man who supplied him with the decisive pass in the 1982 All-Ireland SFC final.

The Kingdom, the power of Dublin and Mayo.

The rulebook will have done nothing these past 36 hours to shield James McGrath from the torrent of abuse he’s received for sending off Pa Horgan on Sunday.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice fired a thinly veiled broadside at Kerry legend Eoin Liston last night for Twitter comments that forced the Kingdom into announcing their Munster final team earlier than planned.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan is not convinced by the round robin proposal aimed at raising the standard of the Munster senior football championship.

KERRY will roll out a number of their football greats to business leaders in New York this week in a bid to drive funding for a state of the art GAA Centre of Excellence in the county.

Happy the bride the sun shines on, an old saying goes, and so it was yesterday for a radiant Hilary Stephenson who married Kerry footballer Kieran ‘Star’ Donaghy between the wintry showers in Waterville.

It was the kind of send-off he would have loved — a packed house, music, humour, sporting people, and, most importantly of all, friends from all over the country.

Kerry minor hurling manager Seanie O’Shea has stepped down from his post midway through his two-year term.

The GAA’s greatest and most enduring All Star was never selected as an All Star!

TADHG KENNELLY has admitted ‘it really got up my nose’ that his heavy hit on Nicholas Murphy in the 2009 All-Ireland final was labelled a pre-meditated, cynical act.

DON’T rush to judgment on the future for Kerry football following the weekend failure to end Down’s significant record against the Kingdom in the All-Ireland football championship.

TWO of the men entrusted with leading the Ireland team in this year’s International Rules Series believe many inter-county players lack the basic skills required to play Gaelic football at the top level.

The Irish Daily Mail and TG4 will sponsor the 2010 International Rules Series and the Ireland panel respectively, it was announced today.

FORMER Cork All-Ireland-winning captain Larry Tompkins believes a victory for Cork in next Sunday’s NFL Division 1 decider against Mayo in Croke Park would be a huge boost after the championship victories they have suffered at the venue in recent years.

WHEN you’re six ft six, the view over the horizon is as good as the one over your shoulder. Mike Quirke appears an unlikely weathervane for the state of Kerry football, but he has an unique perspective of the Kingdom’s pasts, present and its future.

A passionate Sean Boylan reminisced about Ireland's last victory on foreign soil and the legacy of the late Cormac McAnallen when speaking following his side's International Rules series win over Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground earlier today.

Ireland International Rules captain Sean Cavanagh believes his Tyrone manager Mickey Harte will be secretly delighted following Ireland's series success over Australia - this despite Harte having major reservations about the hybrid game.

THE sanctions in place to deal with violent play will ensure “a clean series” between Ireland and Australia this time, according to Kerry great Eoin Liston.

Ireland manager Sean Boylan has confirmed his backroom team for next month's International Rules Series, which will see the Irish take on Australia in Perth (October 24) and Melbourne (October 31).

KERRY legend Eoin Liston believes the GAA should adopt the disciplinary system operated by their AFL counterparts.

THE death occurred yesterday of former Fianna Fáil TD for Kerry North, Kit Ahern (née Liston).

NEW Irish manager Sean Boylan has no wish to see the competitive nature of the International Rules Series with Australia being diluted — once the games are played in the “proper spirit” and, more importantly, as long as the refereeing is fair.

THURSDAY night’s howling gale from the south-west wasn’t propelled just by meteorological forces; it was augmented by a collective wave of relief coming from those charged with retaining the good name of football in the Kingdom.

IT’S DINNER, for God’s sake. It’s not the Last Supper.

Sean Boylan, Ireland's manager for the 2006 International Rules series, has confirmed his provisional training panel for the autumn encounters with Australia.

ALAN QUIRKE is set to make a small bit of history in Killarney on Sunday by becoming only the fifth Cork goalkeeper to play in a Munster football final in 40 years.

THE GAA's link with Irish-based charity Self Help Development International could help up to a million people in Africa gain self-sufficiency in food production, it was pointed out at a press briefing in Croke Park yesterday.

BIRR manager John Goode will be praying that Brian Whelahan has not aggravated a groin strain after taking part in a charity walk with other GAA legends Eoin Liston, Jack O’Shea and Henry Shefflin in Malawi.

LARRY TOMPKINS finally met his match at the weekend, as his long-time partner Orla Fegan joined Cork’s All-Ireland-winning football captain at the altar.

KERRY manager Jack O’Connor isn’t yet prepared to rule Darragh Ó Sé out of contention for the All-Ireland SFC final against Mayo on September 26.

ST. FACHTNAS will be without David Limrick for tomorrow’s Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí opening round against Críost Rí at Newcestown (2.30pm).

LOSING the five-in-row opportunity to Offaly in the 1982 All-Ireland final was not Mick O’Dwyer’s biggest disappointment in football.

SELDOM has a starting fifteen been awaited with such apprehension in Kerry.

KERRY midfielder Darragh O Sé is facing up to eight weeks on the sideline after chipping a bone in his ankle in a trial game in Killarney.