Kerry footballer Paddy Curtin remained in critical condition on a life-support machine in a Florida hospital last night after suffering catastrophic injuries in a car accident.

Legion 2-10 Feale Rangers 1-11: Two second-half goals helped a below-par Legion beat Feale Rangers and advance to the last eight of the Kerry senior football championship at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.

Former All-Ireland medallist Patrick Kelly is available for a potential recall with his native Clare in 2016 after being ruled ineligible to continue with Christy Ring Cup champions Kerry.

Feale Rangers 3-9 Ardfert 1-11:

St Kieran’s 2-10 Feale Rangers 0-8: St Kieran’s blew pitiful Feale Rangers aside in this one-sided Kerry Senior Football Championship tie in Cordal on Saturday night.

Shannon Rangers 0-9 Dr Crokes 2-16: It was all so easy for Dr Crokes who had 13 points to spare over last year’s semi-finalists Shannon Rangers in this Kerry SFC first round tie at Tarbert on Saturday evening.

WHEN Kerry won one of the most dour and tactically conservative All-Ireland finals in recent memory, last September, it would have been easiest to have put it down to tradition. Kerry win All-Irelands because that is what Kerry traditionally do. 

Kerins O’Rahillys set up a winner-takes-all clash with Austin Stacks in Division 1 of the county league thanks to a 0-12 to 1-9 draw with Killarney Legion on Saturday.

Austin Stacks 3-12 Feale Rangers 0-3

Former Kerry and Munster Council chairman Seán Walsh has joined the GAA Presidential race.

Fionn Fitzgerald and Kieran Donaghy both come into the Kerry senior football side for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final with Cavan in Croke Park (throw-in 2pm).

Feale Rangers 1-13 Dingle 0-13

For the first time since 2009, Kerry will begin a championship match against Cork without Kieran Donaghy filling the number 14 shirt after he was left out of Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s side for Sunday’s Munster SFC final in Killarney (2pm).

Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea concedes Lar Corbett is facing a race against time to be fit to start Sunday week’s Munster semi-final against Limerick.

ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 1: Kerry v Down

Munster GAA chairman Sean Walsh has signed off on his term of office by reiterating his view that the GAA must introduce an Australian Rules-tackle into Gaelic football.

TO illustrate the most pressing issue currently facing the GAA, Ogie Moran reflects on a photograph of what he describes as a Kerins O’Rahilly’s “dream team” that won the 2006 Kerry minor football championship.

Kerry’s team for tomorrow’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary at Seán Treacy Park in Tipperary town shows four changes from the side that defeated Limerick in last week’s semi-final.

Bryan Sheehan, Anthony Maher and Aidan O’Mahony make their first starts of the year for Kerry in tomorrow’s McGrath Cup semi-final against Limerick at Fitzgerald Stadium.

“I hate to paint a bleak picture,” says Diarmuid Ó Se, “but I don’t have to. It paints itself.”

Damien Cahalane is the most notable inclusion in the Cork football side for Sunday’s McGrath Cup game with Cork IT.

Dingle 2-12 Feale Rangers 1-13

Feale Rangers 0-13 West Kerry 0-10

Kerry face Cork in Sunday’s Munster semi-final with 11 of the team that beat Tipperary last Sunday week. Bryan Sheehan has been ruled out with a knee injury, while there’s a recall for Kieran Donaghy, a used substitute in Thurles.

Moyvane's Patrick Curtin has been rewarded for his consistent league form by being included in the Kerry team to face Tipperary in Thurles on Sunday.

The pleasant weather conditions created the perfect atmosphere for football in Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday but despite also seeing another series of encouraging performances by their young players that helped secure victory, Kerry’s day was clouded by disciplinary problems.

Kerry 0-20 Laois 1-13

Down 0-08 Kerry 0-14

Describing him as Happy Jack would be pushing it, but the Kerry manager exhibited a certain hue of satisfaction following Saturday’s opening victory.

KERRY are considering thrusting a virtual unknown into their attack for Saturday night’s glamour opening round of the Allianz National League against All-Ireland champions Dublin at Croke Park.

A NEW Kerry chairman will be elected at convention tonight with Patrick O’Sullivan and Johnny Mulvihill battling to succeed Jerome Conway.

TIPPERARY champions Kildangan have failed in an attempt to change the venue for next Sunday’s Munster club JFC final against Kerry outfit Dromid Pearses.

THERE will be a two-man race to succeed Jerome Conway as Kerry county board chairman following a surprise late nomination for the post yesterday.

KERRY GAA chiefs have expressed fears for the future of their club competitions after almost 200 players left the county in the first seven months of 2010.

INCOMING Munster Council chairman Seán Walsh is relishing his new role but admits the province and the GAA are set to “face many challenges over the coming years”.

THE state has dropped a dangerous driving causing death charge against a Kerryman who drove into an accident scene, killing a garda and a firefighter.

THE last two Kerry football champions collided in this heavyweight Austin Stack Park clash yesterday, but the superiority of Feale Rangers ensured they were always going to be the ones standing at the final bell.

THE Bishop of Kerry Dr Bill Murphy has announced plans for neighbouring parishes to pool their resources, forming pastoral clusters to be co-ordinated by a priest with the title, vicar forane.

Gardaí were tonight looking for a double killer after a farmer and his son were shot dead at their rural home.

ON a sunny day when the spectre of violent death visited the tranquil farming countryside of north Kerry, signs of new life were, ironically, everywhere to be seen.