Austin Stacks 2-10 Laune Rangers 1-6: Austin Stacks retained their place in the Kerry senior football championship for 2016 and consigned Laune Rangers to the intermediate grade for the first time since 1969.

Dr Crokes 1-11 Austin Stacks 1-10: Experience was what Martin Byrnes cited at the finish.

Dublin selector Declan Darcy has admitted they face a testing week to select their All-Ireland final team but insisted they won’t be clouded by ‘nostalgia’ when making the big calls.

Former Kerry defender Stephen Stack believes that Kingdom manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice will “pick two teams” for the All-Ireland final.

Austin Stacks 1-13 St Michael’s/Foilmore 2-6: Champions Austin Stacks opened their Kerry SFC title defence with a laboured victory over St Michael’s/Foilmore at Austin Stack Park Tralee on Saturday night.

There will be plenty of "what ifs" about Shane Carroll’s late missed free around Rock Street for some time to come but Stephen Stack, not surprisingly, wasn’t apportioning any blame on his forward.

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final: Slaughtneil (Derry) 1-14 Austin Stacks (Kerry) 2-10: Margins don’t come much finer, but Austin Stacks won’t need a microscope to detect where they went wrong here.

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final: Austin Stacks (Kerry) v Slaughtneil (Derry): Sunday.

Laois footballer and Austin Stacks member Billy Sheehan will be among the leaders of the club’s now traditional parade to O’Moore Park on Sunday.

WHAT would Kerry have done if Eamonn Fitzmaurice had said No?

Austin Stacks (Kerry) 3-5 The Nire (Waterford) 2-4

He’s still a key player for club and county, but Kieran Donaghy has "great potential" as a coach.

It’s hardly surprising Stephen Stack isn’t tempting fate this week by loading up on Austin Stacks at his local bookmakers.

AIB MUNSTER CLUB SFC SEMI-FINAL:

For a man reared on the winter wonders of the North Kerry Championship in his native Listowel, Stephen Stack knows the value of ‘winning football’ better than most.

Austin Stacks enjoyed the Sunday night of their county final win. Stephen Stack wasn’t going to begrudge his players a night on the town after ending a 20 year wait for a county title.

Mid Kerry 1-07 Austin Stacks 2-13 

He’s always backed himself. So when it came to telling his colourful life and football story, the only person he’d trust to put proper context on all those raucous and riotous moments was his own hand. Galvin In His Own Words. It has bestseller written all over it

Stephen Stack was taking the positives from Austin Stack’s performance despite seeing them lose a four-point second-half advantage.

Austin Stacks 1-13 Mid Kerry 2-10

Kerry SFC: A couple of weeks after their 16-point mauling at the hands of Dr Crokes last year, manager Stephen Stack called a meeting of his Austin Stacks players.

Austin Stacks 2-13 Dingle 1-9

Austin Stacks 0-17 Rathmore 2-5

Kieran Donaghy will see a shoulder specialist tomorrow before a decision is taken on his latest injury setback.

Stephen Stack searched for solace amid the debris of a 16-point defeat.

Dr Crokes 4-16 Austin Stacks 0-12

Dr Crokes joint manager Vince Casey believes yesterday’s county final win was proof the team have learned the lessons from last February’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Ballymun Kickhams.

Austin Stacks 3-12 Feale Rangers 0-3

Kerry's outstanding wing back Tomás Ó Sé, a five-time All-Ireland SFC winner, has decided to retire from senior inter-county football at the age of 35.

Austin Stacks 2-16 St Michael’s/Foilmore 1-05

Austin Stacks 1-12 Shannon Rangers 0-7

Former All-Ireland winning Kerry footballer Stephen Stack will take charge of Austin Stacks in 2013.

Former team-mates and opponents spoke yesterday of their respect for Páidí Ó Sé as a “creative” footballer, an innovator in the development of attacking half-back play and his expertise as a manager.

Six hundred business people around the country have attended AIB economic briefings designed to provide business leaders with the information they need to tackle the downturn.

Jack O’Connor’s team weren’t the only Kerry side at Croke Park on All-Ireland final Sunday. We caught up with members of the 1986 side honoured at GAA headquarters yesterday

THIS MONTH marks the 16th anniversary of women in the Irish Naval Service.

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.

Those who point to the new phenomenon of blue collar half-forward should remember that Kerry's Liam Hassett has been toiling in that role for almost a decade. Colm O'Connor spoke to him.

Colm O'Connor looks at the enduring appeal of the last GAA championship final of the year. ON SUNDAY, sports followers of all persuasions will speed past a golfing wonder of the world to get a ringside seat on an hour of local squabbling in Ballybunion.

TIPPERARY senior football manager Andy Shortall will get his first taste of competitive action with the Blue and Gold on Sunday when they line out against Clare in the McGrath Cup semi-final in Clonmel (2pm).

THERE are two ways, it seems, of looking at Kerry's defensive collapse in the final 20 minutes against Frankie Dolan-inspired Roscommon, the one that has caused mass panic and hysteria in the Kingdom.