Coláiste Ghobnatán manager Mickey Ned O’Sullivan has praised the goodwill of Ardscoil Rath Iomgháin in postponing the Dr O’Sullivan Cup final.

The former GAA president on how the organisation is balancing its commercial responsibilities with its traditional core

Former Kerry footballer Mickey Ned O’Sullivan has slammed the decision of "corporate Croke Park" to stage Saturday’s semi-final replay at the Gaelic Grounds, believing the venue choice is a slap in the face to both sets of players.

Mickey Ned O’Sullivan was the first footballer to score a goal in Páirc Uí Chaoimh and all going well was meant to be coaching the Kerry minors on the last day the old ground hosted a Munster football final as well.

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Mickey Ned O’Sullivan must surely be the first former Kerry manager to take charge of a team wearing Cork jerseys.

Coláiste Ghobnatán have long relied on an ‘outsider’, Kerryman Mickey Ned O’Sullivan, to provide the school’s senior football team with guidance, but he believes there is another, more powerful, external force helping them this year.

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The sudden death of young Shane Murphy last year after he collapsed playing football puts sport into perspective

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Tipperary overturned a seven-point deficit against Kerry in yesterday’s Gaelic Grounds final to retain their Electric Ireland Munster MFC crown.

FOUR-TIME All-Ireland winner Seán O’Sullivan has returned to the Kerry squad for the 2012 season.

THE team with the best defensive system in place will win the All-Ireland senior football final, according to former All-Ireland winning Kerry captain Mickey Ned O’Sullivan.

KERRY delegates at last night’s county committee meeting at the Austin Stack Pavilion in Tralee ratified former Kerry and Limerick senior boss Mickey Ned O’Sullivan as the county’s new minor manger.

WITH the GAA’s heavy-hitters so worked up these days with tackling the issue of under-the-counter payments to managers, it’s only right so that we tackle some of the myths that they themselves have been perpetuating in the process.

LIMERICK’S new football manager Maurice Horan has countered any suggestions that describe his team as an ageing side.

MICKEY Ned O’Sullivan last night insisted that he had no regrets as he brought the curtain down on his five-year tenure as Limerick senior football boss and believed the time was right for ‘a new voice’ to come in at the helm of the county.

LEAVING the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night, I felt an immense sense of relief that Cork were still in the championship.

LAST year’s All-Ireland winning captain Darran O’Sullivan has been drafted into the Kerry team for Sunday’s Munster SFC final against Limerick, in the only change made by manager Jack O’Connor from the team that defeated Cork in the Munster semi-final replay.

STEPHEN LAVIN has a confession to make.

TWO of Munster football’s lesser lights convened in Croke Park on Saturday afternoon with a more seasoned and experienced Limerick outfit carrying off the honours in an excellent Allianz NFL Division 4 decider.

LIMERICK have nothing to lose Sunday in Croke Park, no pressure on their shoulders – that seems to be the common refrain this week.

PEARSE O’Neill, well isn’t he the dark horse? One of those legendary Cork GAA mushrooms that sprung up overnight but for all evidence to the contrary.

AT the close of 2007, there was an unmistakable sense that the Limerick footballers were starting to retreat into the shadows.

FORMER Kerry coach Páidí O Sé still stands over his controversial description six years ago of Kerry fans as the “roughest type of f***ing animals” – and believes current boss Jack O’Connor will find out as much if he fails to land the All-Ireland in September.

“Cork are favourites, but we can beat them.”

MICKEY Ned O’Sullivan is prepared to soldier on as manger of the Limerick senior footballers for at least another season, according to Limerick’s football board vice-chairman Michael Sheehan.

THIRTY years on, former referee John Moloney has admitted he never saw Sean Doherty's notorious tackle on Mickey Ned O'Sullivan in the 1975 All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Dublin.

Thirty years after waking up in hospital to ask the nurses who won the All-Ireland he was playing in, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to make his victory speech, with a familiar figure in close attendance. Michael Moynihan and Murt Murphy report.

Uncompromising on the field, Kerry’s Liam O’Flaherty and Eamonn Breen took a vow of silence off it. They built a career on being strong and silent. But they’ve mellowed, as Colm O’Connor found out.

TWENTY-eight years on, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to lift the Sam Maguire Cup, not in Croke Park where the honour was denied him in the 1975 All-Ireland football final against Dublin, but in Dunmanway where winning captains and their representatives over the last 75 years were honoured on Saturday.