THE Kerry management are confident of having their goal-keeping position resolved before the end of the Allianz NFL, with coach Jack O’Connor indicating after yesterday’s game in Fitzgerald Stadium that they are unlikely to “spread the net” beyond the three players who have filled the position so far in the McGrath Cup following Diarmuid Murphy’s retirement.

TADHG KENNELLY has been named at centre-forward ahead of Tommy Walsh on the Kerry team for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final showdown against Meath at Croke Park.

LIMERICK manager Justin McCarthy introduces James Ryan and Paul Browne for his side’s NHL clash against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh tomorrow.

THE inaugural IRB Junior World Championship, to be held in Wales in June, will be uppermost in the minds of respective Irish and Welsh U20 team coaches Eric Elwood and Patrick Horgan at Dubarry Park, Athlone, tonight (7.30pm).

IRISH U20 coach Eric Elwood isaiming for another Grand Slam success this season, but accepts that the fixture schedule is a tougher proposition this time around.

MUNSTER football manager Sean Geaney last night joined the chorus of criticism regarding the timing of the inter-provincial championship. His selection options for tomorrow’s football semi-final against Leinster in Fermoy have been decimated by a combination of factors.

SCOTT DEASY’S staggering 69th-minute conversion from the right touch line and into a fierce crosswind saw Presentation College emerge victorious in this Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final at Dooradoyle yesterday.

THERE was never any doubting the outcome of this AIB Kerry SFC opener in Currow yesterday once St Kieran’s recovered from a shaky period at the start of the second half and put up the scores which eased them into a controlling position.

St Munchin’s 10 Crescent Comprehensive 9

Crescent College 11 Árd Scoil Rís 10

St. Fachtna’s 2-8 Limerick Colleges 0-11

Cork 2-13 Kerry 0-8

Limerick 1-6 Kerry 0-9

UNDER 21 stars Sean Cavanagh and John Devine return to the Tyrone team for Sunday’s Alianz National Football League Division 1 ‘A’ clash with Kerry at Omagh.

BRENDAN GUINEY is the only Kerry newcomer for Sunday’s trip to Longford for the Kingdom’s first competitive game since their All-Ireland semi final loss to Tyrone last August.

WITH four senior players in the line-up Kerry will be hot favourites to beat Waterford in the final of the Munster Under-21 football championship at Walsh Park tonight.

Kerry 4-17 Tipperary 2-5

FOLLOWING a meeting of the Munster Council GAC in Limerick last night, Cork succeeded in postponing tonight’s Munster U21 football championship semi-final against Waterford.

DARRAGH O Sé has declared himself fit and ready for Monday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter final against Roscommon.

Kerry 1-7

KERRY have named 10 of the side that failed to Armagh in last year’s All-Ireland final for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final with Tipperary in Tralee.

BARRY O’SHEA, Donal Daly and Marc Ó Sé have been excluded from the official Kerry panel of 26-players for the Munster SFC semi-final against either Tipperary or Waterford on June 15.

Tyrone 1-13 Kerry 0-14

Árd Scoil Rís 9 Crescent Comp 0

SAME again, please. That’s the message the Kerry selectors have issued to the 15 players again picked for Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cork at Croke Park.