Kevin Feely doesn’t know what better way to put why he waved goodbye on a career across the Irish Sea.

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Kildare will be without team captain Eoin Doyle and Daniel Flynn for their Leinster championship opener against Wexford tomorrow week, while Niall Kelly faces a race against time to be fit.

Second-half goals from Conor Carson and Nigel Elliot secured a hard-earned 2-14 to 1-12 victory for Antrim over Roscommon in their Christy Ring Cup Round 2A encounter in Dunloy on Saturday.

Senior panellist Con O'Callaghan starred again for Dublin with 1-7 but Cillian O'Shea was the game breaker in Navan with a vital late goal to secure a three-in-a-row of EirGrid Leinster U-21 football titles.

Dundalk 2 Bohemians 2: Richie Towell netted a 94th-minute equaliser for Dundalk last night against Bohemians to keep the leaders eight points clear at the summit of the League of Ireland Premier Division.

There was no delay. Darran O’Sullivan and Gooch were still razing Kildare on Jones Road as Kerry’s medical team got to work on the James O’Donoghue rehab strategy.

Kildare 2-15 Longford 1-9: Kildare collected their second Leinster minor title in three years with a comfortable nine-point victory over Longford.

Kildare 2-15 Meath 0-13: This game hinged on a two-minute period straight after the break, when Kildare found the net almost immediately after Meath had had a gilt-edged opportunity to blow this Eirgrid Leinster U21FC semi-final wide open.

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SSE AIRTRICITY LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION:

Kerry 2-15 Kildare 1-08

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Meath manager Mick O’Dowd is praying the second coming of Shane O’Rourke will solve his midfield dilemma.

Kildare 4-18 Kerry 2-22

Kildare 1-22 Westmeath 0-9

Kildare 0-12 Tyrone 1-11

As you would expect, Kieran McGeeney fronted up to this latest setback.

It is 11 years since Kieran McGeeney and his Armagh team-mates inflicted a deep wound in the psyche of Dublin football by beating the Blues in a dramatic All-Ireland semi-final.

They have lost arguably a first choice championship midfield in recent weeks but John Doyle insists it is not a problem area for Kildare.

On the field they will have 11 seniors and on the line they will have one current and one former senior inter-county manager. Oh, and a former European Commissioner.

Cork 1-9 Kildare 2-10

Dublin 0-17 Kildare 1-16

Offaly 1-9 Kildare 1-12

Kieran McGeeney aims to build on what he believes was on one of Kildare’s best seasons since he took charge in 2008.

Laois may have accounted for initial favourites Dublin in the first round, but very few outside their own camp are giving them any chance of overcoming Kilkenny.

KILDARE defender Peter Kelly is relishing his first game for the Lilywhites in 18 months as he returns from a cruciate injury tomorrow.

CORK showed their style first, then their substance to dethrone All-Ireland JFC holders Sligo at Croke Park and march through themselves to this year’s final.

A pointed free by Jane Dolan in the second minute of injury time snatched the Irish Daily Star Camogie League Division 3 title for Meath at Donoghmore Ashbourne, as the home side beat Kildare by 3-9 to 2-11 in a thriller.

A goal from super sub Louise Walsh in the dying minutes ensured that Kildare would be All-Ireland champions for the first time in 20 years when denying Armagh in the Gala All-Ireland junior A final in Ashbourne by 3-10 to 2-8.

SLOW starters they may be, but as long as Kildare keep finishing their All-Ireland Championship games with searing bursts for the finish line, James Kavanagh will be a happy man.

KILDARE boss, Kieran McGeeney hailed his side’s steely resolve as they recovered from a dreadful start to wear Meath down with a sensational second-half performance at Croke Park yesterday.

Kildare 2-17 Meath 1-12

AFTER Tyrone accounted for Antrim in the Ulster championship, both Seán Cavanagh and Mickey Harte referred to the Saffrons having made it obvious how much they fancied their chances of an upset.

GOALKEEPER Alan Quirke is the most likely of Cork’s established players to have recovered from injury in time for next Saturday’s NFL Division 1 tie against Galway at Páirc Uí Rinn.

THERE are two changes to the Kildare team that play All-Ireland champions Tyrone in the quarter-final at Croke Park tomorrow.

LIKE most clichés, the one about Kildare’s dearth of scoring ability has had more than a hint of truth about it. As this decade progressed, it became more and more appropriate.

KIERAN McGEENEY has been tipped to be a future Armagh manager – but not before he is a success with Kildare.