Kerry county board secretary Peter Twiss has rejected the suggestion the Kerry senior football championship was drawn out to maximise revenue.

New Kerry football manager Peter Keane had full autonomy in selecting his backroom team, Kerry county board chairman Tim Murphy has insisted.

Former Kerry captain and manager Mickey Ned O’Sullivan has criticised the county board executive for attempting to “micro-manage” the appointment process to find Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s successor.

Kerry minor football manager Peter Keane says he has had no contact from the selection committee charged with finding Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s successor.

The surprise departure of Munster GAA CEO Simon Moroney, which was announced on Monday, means another significant vacancy will need to be filled by the association next summer.

Tracey Kennedy was confirmed last night as the first female chair in Cork GAA history as nominations closed for annual convention without a challenge to her nomination.

Kerry delegates have backed Paraic Duffy’s proposed changes to the All-Ireland senior football championship.

Kerry GAA secretary Peter Twiss has called for a county board draw to help meet the running costs of the new centre of excellence.

Kerry GAA secretary Peter Twiss has warned against a “highly dangerous” proposal from a senior football club in the county of postponing all SFC games between July’s Munster final and Kerry’s exit from the All-Ireland Football Championship.

Kerry bid for their second back-to-back All-Ireland in less than a decade tomorrow at Croke Park, but you’d have got long odds on that in 2012 after they’d lost a quarter-final to Donegal. No-one was putting their hand up to replace Jack O’Connor, something Kerry GAA chairman Patrick O’Sullivan recognised better than most. So what’s changed? And how much longer can the Kingdom stay top of the tree

All six Munster counties are against the introduction of a calendar GAA season from next year, the Irish Examiner can confirm.

Kerry chairman Pat O’Sullivan insists the county is open to the notion of finishing the All-Ireland Club championships in a calendar year but wants more consultation on the matter.

Kerry County Board chairman Patrick O’Sullivan believes that this year’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay showed that big championship games can be held outside Croke Park.

Kerry GAA officials have expressed "grave doubts" about the workability of a Central Council plan to complete all competitions in the calendar year.

Kerry clubs have given the county’s Competitions Control Committee (CCC) the green light to a look at the regional minor leagues this summer as concern is growing that players are being denied football because neighbouring clubs will not amalgamate.

A war of words has broken out between Kerry GAA chiefs and a number of clubs in Gaeltacht regions.

The Kerry GAA chairman has described Colm Cooper’s wait for the Player of the Year award as “mind-boggling”.

County Board Chairman Patrick O’Sullivan told club delegates at last night’s re-arranged County Committee meeting that the lands at Currans would be purchased within the next two weeks.

As emigration threatens the survival of GAA clubs in one of its greatest strongholds, senior figures in the association are to hold a special meeting on the situation in Kerry tonight.

Kerry minor hurling manager Seanie O’Shea has stepped down from his post midway through his two-year term.

KERRY chairman Patrick O’Sullivan has offered to give evidence to GAA chiefs investigating the controversial scenes that marred Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final in Portlaoise.

PATRICK O’SULLIVAN was last night ratified as the new chairman of the Kerry county board after he defeated Johnny Mulvihill by 183 votes to 59 votes in the election at the annual convention in the Malton Hotel in Killarney.

KERRY GAA officials managed to turn over a profit of almost €125,000 this year despite the economic meltdown and the cost of an All-Ireland football final.

KERRY are set to return to Croke Park to face All-Ireland conquerors Dublin as early as February.

A NEW vote is to taken by the Kerry County GAA Committee following a settlement in the action by two schoolboys who claimed they might have to give up sport altogether because the GAA would not let them play football for the club they love.

THEY want to play football for the club they love, but have been told by the GAA they can only play for the club in their parish.

QUESTION: when do you put away the All-Ireland trophy?

KERRY manager Jack O’Connor last night claimed Footballer of the Year, Paul Galvin, had been ‘wronged’ by GAA disciplinary chiefs and insisted the All Star did not strike Cork’s Eoin Cadogan in last month’s tempestuous NFL meeting of the counties.

CENTRA was yesterday announced as the newest co-sponsor of the All-Ireland hurling championship,taking over from RTÉ in a deal which will last three years.

KERRY GAA’s plans to sell Austin Stack Park to a developer and relocate to a state of the art complex at the old Ballybeggan Park Racecourse have been shelved.

KERRY County Convention last night voted unanimously to give the Central Council the power to open Croke Park to non GAA activities after the present agreement with rugby and soccer expires.

MUNSTER’S GAA administrators have suffered a blow with the decision of provincial deputy chief Danny Nelligan to pursue an alternative career.

LAST week the GAA unveiled its strategic vision and action plan for the next seven years. There was much to like about both the presentation and contents of the document.

KERRY GAA chiefs have set up a special executive team to probe Sunday’s violent assault on AIB Kerry SHC semi-final referee, Gearóid O’Regan.

LAST night’s Kerry convention in Tralee was noteworthy for the election of a new secretary and the first woman member of the executive.