These are exciting times for Pat Spillane’s native Templenoe and the surrounding Kenmare District. But the Kingdom legend fears for the future of rural GAA areas like this corner of Kerry.

South Kerry 0-16 Kilcummin 1-8: The dead ball accuracy of Bryan Sheehan proved crucial as South Kerry secured a winning start in this Kerry Senior Football Championship first round tie in Kilcummin yesterday.

Kerry South 6-18 Cork West 4-8

Kenmare Shamrocks (Kerry) 0-20 Cappamore (Limerick) 2-08

Some felt it in their hearts, some read it on their heart rate monitors.

Locals in a picture-perfect village in Co Kerry that once scooped the overall award in the Tidy Towns competition, have taken action to tackle the problem of an eyesore ghost estate.

Possibly the fittest couple in Ireland stole the show at a gruelling 50-mile walk through the rugged countryside at the weekend.

The stars of yesteryear gathered to say farewell to John Egan, writes Michael Moynihan

I FOUND myself taking a longer than normal walk across Waterville Beach yesterday after hearing that the great gentleman, John Egan, had died suddenly.

THREE Kerry men have started training to become deacons in the Catholic Church.

JUST when it appeared yesterday’s Kerry senior football decider in Fitzgerald Stadium was heading for a replay, county star Declan O’Sullivan fisted over the winning point to leave South Kerry champions for the ninth time.

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.

REPUBLICANS have expressed disgust that a public hall, dedicated to a Kerry Fenian, is being used to celebrate the life and times of a MI5 founder.

THE beginning of one of the most extraordinary chapters in the history of Gaelic football was marked in Clonmel 30 years ago when Kerry played Tipperary in the Munster semi-final.