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.

IT Tralee 4-12 Kerry 0-16: Kerry U21 selector John Shanahan has hinted that senior boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice dictated that the returning Tommy Walsh play no part in yesterday’s McGrath Cup quarter-final.

Kerry U21 selector Noel Kennelly does not feel the underdog tag means his side will approach tonight’s Munster U21FC quarter-final against Cork in Páirc Uí Rinn any differently than usual.

Dingle 2-12 Feale Rangers 1-13

After just one season in charge of the under-21’s, Eamonn Fitzmaurice was last night formally ratified as Kerry senior football manager for a three-year term in succession to Jack O’Connor.

Allow Colm Parkinson, if you will, a told-you-so.

TADHG KENNELLY’S return to gaelic football didn’t have a fairytale ending yesterday as his Listowel Emmets side crashed out of the North Kerry championship with a semi-final defeat to arch rivals Finuge in Tarbert.

DEDICATED followers of fashion enjoyed more success in the style stakes than punters seeking to outsmart the bookies on Ladies’ Day at the Listowel Harvest Racing Festival in Co Kerry yesterday.

HIS inter-county career has been laden with honours, but it is glory on the domestic front that Kieran Donaghy craves most. Next Sunday is a prized opportunity as Austin Stacks are aiming to end a sixteen year Kerry SFC title drought against Dr Crokes.

COLM COOPER was in sensational form as Dr Crokes eased into the Kerry SFC quarter-finals after Saturday’s facile victory over Kenmare at Templenoe (3-15 to 1-4).

The GAA have caved in to the demands of the Gaelic Players Association, according to anti-grants campaigner Mark Conway.

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.

ON THE road home from scouting Meath’s All-Ireland quarter-final victory over Mayo, Kerry’s management team of Jack O’Connor, Eamon Fitzmaurice and Ger O’Keeffe began swapping war stories from their respective scrapes with the Royal County.

IN THEIR curmudgeonly moments, Kerry football supporters like to berate Mick O’Dwyer for his loyalty to the Golden Year greats at the expense of those hoping to prolong the Kingdom’s monopoly of the 70’s and 80’s.

THE U21 football grade has been very good to Kerry. Since its inception in 1964, the Kingdom have contested 14 finals winning nine.

TO the thousands of admirers that came from across the country to pay their final respects, he was Tim Kennelly, the powerful, battle-hardened Kerry footballer and winner of five All-Ireland medals.

Cork 1-12 Kerry 0-8

Munster's traditional big guns, Cork and Kerry, face off in the opening match of the 2005 National Football League tonight under lights at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Darragh Ó Sé and Seamus Moynihan return for League and All-Ireland champions Kerry for tomorrow night's opening of their title defence against Cork under lights at Páirc Uí Rinn.

League, Munster and All-Ireland champions Kerry get their 2005 competitive campaign under way today, without captain Declan O'Sullivan.

League, Munster and All-Ireland champions Kerry get their 2005 competitive campaign underway tomorrow without captain Declan O'Sullivan.

NFL and All-Ireland champions Kerry must make their competitive debut of 2005 tomorrow without the services of skipper Declan O’Sullivan.

DECLAN O’Sullivan is out of Kerry’s Munster SFC final clash with Limerick on Sunday week — and could miss the All-Ireland quarter-final if the Kingdom progress.

Dr Crokes 5-6 Austin Stacks 0-8

Kerry star Noel Kennelly is nearing a full recovery after going to Australia to have his injured groin operated on.

FORMER footballer of the year, Michael Donnellan has suffered a major setback in his bid to return to competitive action with Galway.

OKAY, so we know about the Kerry full forward line. The two corner boys, Mike Frank’s deadly feet and the other one who looks young enough to be breaking child safety laws when he’s sent out for over an hour in the company of Enda McNulty.

MICK O'DWYER has left his son Karl on the bench for Kildare's meeting with Kerry in Saturday's Bank of Ireland All-Ireland SFC qualifier at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

Kerry and Kildare clash in the fourth round of the Bank of Ireland football qualifiers this weekend.

Kerry continued their quest for All-Ireland glory when they held out for a dramatic three point victory over Dublin in their quarter-final replay at Thurles.

Kerry are on course for back-to-back All-Ireland titles after defeating old enemies Dublin in their quarter-final replay at Semple Stadium.

Kerry again have a huge lead at the interval in their Bank of Ireland quarter-final replay against old enemies Dublin at Semple Stadium.

Johnny Crowley has scored a carbon-copy second goal for Kerry in the Bank of Ireland Football quarter-final against Dublin.