In an industry struggling to reinvent itself, the freelance photographer gets squeezed more than most. All the more so, when it’s a sports-specific effort, like Healy Racing in Listowel. As the local September festival kicks off this weekend, Pat Healy reflects on the trade, characters, and moments he’ll remember — and the ones he can’t forget.

From a county that bred mythical footballing giants, Kerry’s 2014 crop of defenders are more tight and tidy than terrifying.

As Kevin Heffernan’s coffin left the Church of St Vincent de Paul on Dublin’s Griffith Avenue yesterday, a spontaneous applause enveloped the air.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

It was the renowned sportswriter Hugh McIlvanny who spoke of the the larcenous nature of death, its habit of breaking in on us when we are least prepared for it and stealing the irreplaceable. He was speaking of Jock Stein, but the feeling can seldom have been more painfully experienced than on the roads and boithríns around West Kerry last night.

TADHG KENNELLY is set for a sensational Gaelic football comeback with his club Listowel Emmets on Sunday.

DERMOT EARLEY, iconic Gaelic footballer and one of the greats of Roscommon and Connacht GAA, has long been regarded as one of the greatest-ever players never to win an All-Ireland medal – something denied to him by Kerry in the 1980 final.

TADHG KENNELLY last night added another chapter to his fairytale sporting life by being named on the GAA Vodafone All Star football team at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin last night.

AN OUTPATIENT blood clinic at St John’s Hospital in Limerick is to be closed from June 2 due to further health cutbacks.

Obesity, ill discipline and the state of Kerry football. Just the headline acts in a two-hour chat with Pat Spillane. Michael Moynihan did the listening.

THIRTY years on, former referee John Moloney has admitted he never saw Sean Doherty's notorious tackle on Mickey Ned O'Sullivan in the 1975 All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Dublin.

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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.

MUNSTER Council chairman Sean Fogarty is adamant that Croke Park must not host non-GAA sports until development work on Lansdowne Road commences.

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly led the tributes to the late Tim Kennelly last night in Listowel as sport paid its final respects to a Kingdom legend.

Sydney Swans defender Tadhg Kennelly has been afforded a month's compassionate leave by the AFL Premiership champions following the death of his father Tim.

THE removal of the remains of Kerry legend Tim Kennelly, who died suddenly on Tuesday, will take place tomorrow evening from Carroll’s Funeral Home, Listowel to the local church.

KERRY GAA and the world of Gaelic games is in mourning for one of its greatest football exponents, following the unexpected death yesterday of Tim Kennelly in his native Listowel.

The GAA world is in mourning after the death of legendary former Kerry footballer Tim Kennelly was confirmed this evening.

THESE are exciting times for Tim Kennelly and family. On Sunday week son Noel will be part of the Kerry squad bidding to retain their All-Ireland SFC title against Tyrone.

A LIMERICK hospital is investigating claims that a patient died during a breakdown in care procedures after two newly-qualified doctors were left alone to monitor a ward.

A LIMERICK hospital is beating the trolley crisis through a new pilot initiative which grades injuries and illnesses.

Ireland 77 (3-17-8) Australia 41 (1-9-8)