Premier League basketball will return to Kerry later this year, with Basketball Ireland confirming four new franchises for the national leagues, including Tralee Town BC.

Irish men with prostate cancer now have a four-in-five chance of being alive in 10 years’ time but new research shows they worry about feeling ill and intimacy problems.

In North Kerry, they like to pull wins from their bootlaces, so Eamonn Fitzmaurice must have enjoyed yesterday.

No matter how many games you go to, you’re sure to see something different every time - but not always on the pitch.

Grass-roots members have overwhelmingly rejected plans to sell the State’s “jewel in the crown”, Aer Lingus, unless IAG agrees to an independent valuation of the firm alongside further regional connectivity and jobs guarantees.

The Labour party national conference has passed a motion calling on the Government to obtain certain guarantees around employment and other issues at Aer Lingus if it is to accept any future offer from IAG.

John Dowling came to national attention in September when he made the agonising decision to

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Ardfert 1-12 Spa 0-10 (after extra time)

Kerryman makes the ultimate sacrifice.

Spectacular conditions on Roaringwater Bay rewarded the 76 boats competing in Cork Dry Gin Calves Week yesterday as the race committee opted to bring forward the long race around the Fastnet lighthouse from today’s original schedule.

Kerry SFC: Rangers 1-15 St Brendan’s 0-12

St Brendan’s 1-17 Killarney Legion 2-07

Milltown/Castlemaine 3-14 St Brendan’s 2-13 (aet)

Fittingly, one of the warmest rounds of applause at the Munster GAA awards was reserved for a man who has clapped and cheered on club and county teams for over half a century.

Former Kerry minor and U21 star Paul Geaney’s rich vein of form has helped fire Dingle clear at the top of the county senior football league.

June 12, 1988.

THE Great Southern Trail promises to be one of the finest long-distance waymarked walks in Ireland.

AS a player, he had the unfortunate experience of being on the losing side in All-Ireland football and hurling finals in the space of six years.

FOR the seventh successive summer the principal of Kilkenny City Vocational School saw off her Leaving Certificate students under a dark cloud.

The GAA will today formalise Liam O’Neill’s election as GAA president after all other candidates pulled out for the first time in the modern era, Jim O’Sullivan looks into how it happened.

GAA chiefs cross-channel have yet to conclude their inquiries into allegations a player had his ear bitten in a Warwickshire senior football league game last week.

A GAA player could lose part of his ear after allegedly being bitten during a melee at an abandoned Warwickshire SFL game in Coventry.

THE VOICE was arresting people. We were in an alcove in a Cork hotel, killing a pot of tea, and those hurrying past kept slowing down and peering in when they heard the soft tone drifting out.

IN James L. Brooks’ feted romcom, As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicholson offends his date Helen Hunt so grievously that she’s walking out of the restaurant unless he pays her an immediate compliment.

THEIR recent county championship exit may have brought dejection for Kerins O’Rahilly’s, but the Tralee club salvaged something from their season with victory in yesterday’s Kerry Senior Club Championship final at Austin Stack Park.

YOU are not in Kerry long before being reminded of football, as Enda Kenny, who is himself steeped in the GAA, quickly learnt yesterday.

Ardfert 1-8 Erin’s Own 0-10

Whitbread Prize-winning poet Bernard O’Donoghue from Cork pauses from his work at Wadham College, Oxford to tell Michael Moynihan his memories of Cork-Kerry Munster finals.

CHRISTY COONEY is set to become the next president of the GAA, and the campaign to alter Rule 42 looks likely to be successful.

GOVERNMENT funding, which accounted for almost a third of the overall expenditure was crucial in expediting the €225m redevelopment of Croke Park, outgoing President Sean McCague admitted yesterday.

MAYBE it was just a coincidence, but each of the two All-Ireland football titles won in replays by Meath under the management of Sean Boylan proved highly controversial.

BARRY O’Shea won’t dismiss out of hand the idea of being the next Kerry captain but he has experienced enough of the ups and downs of inter-county football to realise the talk may amount to nothing more than media speculation.

THE Leinster Council may consider making contributions to the Dublin and Kildare holiday funds following the massive financial boost gained from the 78,000 attendance at Sunday's provincial football final in Croke Park.

Today's planned Division 1A NFL game between Cork and Offaly has been postponed as a mark of respect to the former Offaly player and GAA President, John Dowling, who died yesterday.

The former President of the GAA, John Dowling, has died at the age of 71.