Kerry’s bid for a sixth consecutive All-Ireland minor football title is over as Galway, with a strong final quarter effort, ended the Kingdom’s 34-game unbeaten run at this level.

Three unanswered points approaching the finish were central in propelling Kerry to a seventh consecutive Munster MFC title and, in the process, stretching to 33 the county’s unbeaten run at this grade.

Eoghan Cormican How do you guard against complacency amongst a bunch of 16 and 17-year olds when they’ve already dismantled this evening’s opposition, to the tune of 16 points, just a few weeks ago?

Kerry have made one change for their Munster MFC final clash with Cork on Saturday in Páirc Uí Chaomh.

The whole of Ireland is basking in beautiful sunshine but I’m doing a rain dance. It’s getting warm and dry now, and Fairyhouse is drying up and Punchestown are pouring water on the course to beat the band. Let me be a spoilsport, I hope this weather breaks. I want it to rain.

Children and an elderly man were in the sitting room of a house in Listowel town, Co Kerry, shortly after midnight last Saturday night/Sunday morning when two youths armed with various items including an axe smashed the sitting room windows and door into the room, the juvenile court was told today.

Gardaí in Listowel investigating the death of a male cyclist in his 60s are appealing for witnesses.

Dawn raids and doggedness lifted Listowel to the top of this year’s Tidy Towns competition after 25 years of trying.

Shame was the base and the root of the Church’s power. But not their shame... but of their victims, writes Fergus Finlay

Show organisers have eye and ear for the right musical talent to match the region’s prize farm animals, writes Denis Lehane

A language test for new applicants for Irish citizenship is under consideration, a senior Department of Justice official said in Killarney, Co Kerry, where more than 3,500 people from more than 160 countries officially became Irish citizens.

For generations in Ireland, women’s sexuality has been seen as a dangerous force that needed to be controlled, says Louise O’Neill

Sweeping brushes and spades may be the physical tools of success in the Tidy Towns but the crucial factor is partnership.

Culture Night takes place today, with a feast of free offerings all over the country. Ellie O’Byrne selects some of the highlights

It was the second major cannabis seizure in the space of a week.

Paddy Brophy was standing on the fine white sand of City Beach in Perth, the impossibly blue waters of the Indian Ocean stretching beyond the horizon before him, when he arrived at the decision to come home.

Many Young Men Of 20 is being revived at the Everyman, so Jo Kerrigan looks back on the original Cork-Kerry collaborations that saw the Listowel master’s plays performed on Leeside.

A Listowel man claimed over €35,000 in benefits while employed as “a steel fixer” working six days a week in the construction industry in the UK, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told.

They have won five of the last seven Kerry football championship, and on days like these, it’s hard to figure how Dr Crokes contrive to lose any game at all.

Half of the drink-drivers in Kerry are under the age of 40, and most of those are under the age of 30, according to new figures revealed by the gardaí.

In the so-called good old days, Listowel was always regarded as the real start of the National Hunt season.

Kerry SFC Rd 2B - Kerins O’Rahillys 3-11 Feale Rangers 1-11: Hard to know which of their opening two games in this year’s Kerry SFC Kerins O’Rahillys should use as a reference point going forward to Round 3.

On Saturday May 7, runners and walkers all over the world will take part in the Darkness into Light campaign, in aid of Pieta House, the centre for the prevention of suicide and self-harm.

Listowel Emmets 0-9 Brosna 1-6: All-Ireland Junior Club champions Brosna overturned a six-point deficit and forced Listowel veteran Noel Kennelly to kick an equalising point in this absorbing North Kerry SFC final in Moyvane yesterday.

Fresh guidelines on counting election votes will be issued to returning officers after a landmark court case over the May 2014 local elections and the counting of ballot papers.

Fairyhouse

Brian Herlihy has been appointed as the Cork minor football manager and his backroom team will feature a strong influence from the county’s 2010 All-Ireland-winning team.

Lombardstown, Co Cork, trainer Eugene O’Sullivan took the featured Pat Woodbyrne Memorial Handicap Chase on the first day of Tramore’s August festival, when A Decent Excuse bounced back to form to post an impressive success.

A 71-year-old Listowel man who the court accepted was in poor health and genuinely remorseful and who yesterday offered his house to his victims in compensation, has been jailed for abusing two boys.

Two jockeys who have caught the eye for a while now are Ger Fox and Jack Kennedy.

Feale Rangers 3-9 Ardfert 1-11:

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Waterloo Bridge should get off the mark in the Irish Stallion farms 2-Y-0 Maiden on tonight’s mixed card in Tipperary.

The potent attacking arsenal available to UCC was rolled out for all to see as they overcame the shock of an early Cork IT goal to rout their Cork rivals in the Sigerson Cup at the Mardyke today.

Deliberately misleading the public in terms of the true employment figures is a cheap political stunt by Sinn Féin, argues Labour TD Arthur Spring

Sigerson Cup winning manager Billy Morgan and Higher Education committee chairman Gerry Tully have expressed strong opposition to calls for a blanket ban on inter-county players lining out at third level.

Beale 0-11 Listowel Emmets 0-10: Beale ended a 25 year famine when they defeated champions Listowel Emmets in Saturday’s North Kerry SFC final at O’Rahilly Park, Ballylongford.

Colin Keane, who returned to action after a 14-day ban at Roscommon on Monday, starred in Fairyhouse yesterday, completing the first treble of his career, on Buenos Y Bobos, Chocolate Diamond and Azurite for his boss Ger Lyons, to bring his seasonal tally to 49.