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

Austin Stacks 2-10 Laune Rangers 1-6: Austin Stacks retained their place in the Kerry senior football championship for 2016 and consigned Laune Rangers to the intermediate grade for the first time since 1969.

Rathmore 2-15 Dr Crokes 1-13: A third victory for Rathmore over Dr Crokes in the last two years, but without question the most significant as they ended the Killarney side’s Kerry SFC aspirations for 2015 yesterday in Killarney. They also qualified for the semi- finals of the SFC for the first time in the club’s history.

Rathmore 2-8 Kerins O’Rahillys 2-5: John Moynihan’s goal two minutes from time was the gamebreaker as Rathmore edged out Kerins O’Rahillys in a high-intensity Kerry SFC first-round clash at Austin Stack Park on Saturday.

Sunday’s Well 20 Shannon 12.

Rathmore 0-14 Dr Crokes 0-9

Finuge 0-10 Rathmore 0-17

Rathmore 1-12 West Kerry 0-14

A friend tells me that he was at a sports function the other night when a minor war of words erupted over someone using the term ‘soccer’.

A man being tipped as a contender to replace Jack O’Connor at the helm of Kerry football has returned to management at club level.

Rathmore kept their interest in this year’s Kerry SFC alive with a comprehensive victory over a gutsy but limited Mid Kerry side in Beaufort on Saturday.

Austin Stacks remain top of Kerry Senior Football League Division 1 after a derby victory (2-12 to 2-9) over Tralee rivals Kerins O’Rahillys on Saturday.

Munster senior champions Dr Crokes are favourites to pick up the first major piece of silverware on offer in Kerry club football this season.

RATHMORE manager Denis Moynihan is hoping his side can find inspiration from a neighbouring county when they face Mid Kerry in the Kerry SFC quarter-final tomorrow.

ANOTHER weekend, another title for Dr Crokes.

DISAPPOINTINGLY the entertainment value from this Kerry SFC quarter-final in Fitzgerald Stadium diminished in a second half of contrasting fortunes.

THIS clash of the titans may have failed to deliver on the pre-match hype, but few in Killarney will be complaining after Dr Crokes defeated West Kerry in Saturday’s Kerry SFC quarter-final at Austin Stack Park (1-8 to 0-5).

ROSCOMMON boss Fergal O’Donnell has opted to keep faith with the team that sprung a major surprise in the recent Connacht decider against Sligo for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Cork at Croke Park.

THE late Sean Moylan, War of Independence leader and former cabinet minister, would not have been in any sense daunted by the challenge of shaving€4 billion off spending.

THEY have the best-named fanzine in football – ‘There’s Only One F In Fulham’.

UCC 37 Portadown 0

THE gulf between second and third division teams in the AIB League was highlighted at Temple Hill, Cork, last night, as Highfield deservedly advanced to the final of the ODM Munster Senior Cup.

SUNDAY’S WELL creaked a bit in the closing stages, but they were still worthy winners of a well-contested ODM Munster Senior Cup quarter-final at Musgrave Park on Saturday.

St Brogan's 1-11 Colaiste Treasa 0-6

Britain's Steve Perez won the Killarney Historic Rally by over a minute in his Porsche 911 from the similar Porsche 911 of defending champion, Dessie Nutt.

Competitors in the Killarney Historic Stages Rally are now past Moll's Gap for the second time.

BASED on previous performances, Dessie Nutt is the obvious favourite in Sunday’s Killarney Historic Rally.

THE MICHELIN Race of Champions motorsport spectacular in Gran Canaria, in its 16th year, will have its usual and exciting head-to-head Race of Champions as well as the fifth running of the ROC Nations Cup team competition.

Midleton 1-13 Glen Rovers 0-14

CALLING on all their experience and brilliantly marshalled by outstanding centre-back Pat Mulcahy, 14-man Newtownshandrum edged out Midleton, 1-10 to 0-12 in Castletownroche on Saturday in an opening round permanent tsb Cork County SHC contest.

CONTAINING some of the most daunting stages in Irish rallying, this weekend’s Ordnance Survey Ireland/ Gleneagle Hotel co-sponsored Killarney International Rally of the Lakes, has several potential winners.