The death has occurred of Dr Arthur Spring, one of the best-known sporting personalities in Ireland.

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.

“There is nobody sure of their starting place on this team, well — bar one — we will grant Colm [Cooper] his place I suppose!”

Kerins O’Rahillys 1-15 Milltown/Castlemaine 0-12

Kerins O’Rahillys 2-09 South Kerry 1-10

Kerins O’Rahillys 0-15 Kilcummin 1-7

Kerins O’Rahillys maintained their rich vein of form in Division 1 of the County League, defeating in-form Dr Crokes by two points, 1-12 to 1-10 on Saturday evening.

Kerins O’Rahillys sit proudly on top of Division 1 of the Kerry Senior Football League following a big win over bottom club Spa.

St Kieran’s 2-11 Kerins O’Rahillys 0-14

Former Kerry minor and U21 star Paul Geaney’s rich vein of form has helped fire Dingle clear at the top of the county senior football league.

Kerry defeated Sligo in a senior football challenge at Rathkeale on Saturday, with Bryan Sheehan featuring for the first time since the Kingdom’s Munster championship victory over Tipperary.

Kerins O’Rahillys 1-12 Kilcummin 2-8

Milltown/Castlemaine 0-11 East Kerry0-10

Colm Cooper has dismissed the theory that the success of Kerry’s senior footballers are papering over the cracks at underage level.

Austin Stacks remain top of Kerry Senior Football League Division 1 after a derby victory (2-12 to 2-9) over Tralee rivals Kerins O’Rahillys on Saturday.

Kerry footballer David Moran will undergo his second cruciate knee ligament operation in less than 12 months tomorrow.

Portadown soccer star Shane McCabe has thrown in his lot with his native Fermanagh.

WEST KERRY brushed past a disappointing Kerins O’Rahillys in this one-side Kerry SFC quarter-final at Austin Stack Park, Tralee on Saturday.

TOMMY WALSH will not make a sensational return to Kerry football next season as he is set to sign a new contract with his AFL club St Kilda.

KERRY SFC champions Dr Crokes have been paired with last year’s beaten finalists, Austin Stacks, in the quarter-finals of this season’s competition.

THIS opening round of the Garveys Kerry senior football championship at Caherciveen yesterday proved to be much closer than generally anticipated, despite the underdogs being limited by the loss of eight players.

JACK O’CONNOR is set to be ratified for a third term at the helm of the Kerry footballers tonight – and former Kingdom keeper Diarmuid Murphy may be joining him as a new selector.

FORMER Young Footballer of the Year Tommy Walsh could play a role in Kerins O’Rahillys bid for Kerry senior football championship honours.

AIDAN O’MAHONY’S decision to quit the Kerry panel is not a permanent one, Kingdom coach Jack O’Connor believes.

LESS than four years after Jack O’Connor re-invented him as a target man at full-forward, you know that Kieran Donaghy has established himself his seniority in the Kerry football set-up when he talks about the ‘younger’ players coming through.

IT says a lot for a team when their star player, the man selected as AIB Munster player of the championship, is a defender, a stopper.

JUBILATION for West Clare side Kilmurry-Ibrickane after a second title success in yesterday’s AIB Munster Club SFC final at the Gaelic Grounds.

THE availability of David Moran could be the decisive factor when Kerins O’Rahillys and Kilmurry-Ibrickane face off in tomorrow’s Munster club football final in the Gaelic Grounds.

THE availability of David Moran will certainly enhance Kerins O’Rahillys chances of victory in Sunday’s AIB Munster Club football final at the Gaelic Grounds, but selector and trainer Mark Fitzgerald refuses to view his return from Australia as no more than achieving just that.

DAVID MORAN will be available for Kerins O’Rahillys’ Munster club decider with Clare champions Kilmurry-Ibrickane at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE are ready to “throw down the gauntlet” to Kerins O’Rahillys in the Munster Club SFC final.

THERE was a serious question mark hanging over Kerins O’Rahillys ability to win in Austin Stack Park yesterday until Declan Quill inspired them with a 53rd-minute goal.

KERINS O’RAHILLYS (Kerry) 1-8 MOYLE ROVERS (Tipperary) 0-9

MOYLE ROVERS will be wearing a set of Tipperary jerseys when they meet Kerry outfit Kerins O’Rahillys in Sunday’s AIB Munster club football semi-final – and manager Jim Cahill believes that could be a lucky omen.

TOMMY WALSH left the scene of his latest outstanding performance happy in the knowledge that his beloved Kerins O’Rahillys are on track to win their first ever AIB Munster Club SFC title.

THEY may be still savouring last month’s 36th All-Ireland football title, but Kerry have suffered an early blow for 2010 with confirmation that Tommy Walsh has agreed a preliminary agreement with AFL outfit St Kilda. His club and inter-county colleague David Moran has also been offered an early trial with the same club.

WHEN Tadhg Kennelly left Sydney the temperature gauge read 22 degrees celsius; by the time he touched down in Cork yesterday, it was hovering just above zero.

WITH time almost up in Sunday’s Kerry SFC final it seemed if Jack O’Connor’s tenure as Kerins O'Rahillys manager was to end in triumph.

JACK O’CONNOR won’t have long to dwell on the disappointment of yesterday’s dramatic Kerry football final defeat to Mid Kerry.

IT might be sometime yet before the GAA embrace video tech-nology on game-changingincidents, and until then, Kerins O’Rahillys will protest at the injustice of an injury time penalty decision which denied them a Kerry SFC title yesterday.

KILLARNEY was a busy place last Sunday. At St Mary’s Cathedral a special celebration took place in honour of the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican — Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty — who saved about 6,500 Jews from death by the Nazis during the Second World War.

A WRETCHED Monday night in November and oddly Tralee is a hive of sporting activity.

JAMES SHEEHAN cuts straight to it. The recent Kerry SFC semi-final involving Mid Kerry and Laune Rangers was one of those experiences that he’d gladly like to avoid for the rest of his football days.

NEMO Rangers boss Ephie Fitzgerald admits his side face a difficult opening to the defence of their Munster Club SFC crown next Sunday when they face Kerry’s Kerins O’Rahillys at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.