The first inter-county silverware of 2020 will be handed out at LIT Gaelic Grounds today, starting with the McGrath Cup final.

Galtee Gaels will be playing senior football in Limerick next year following a 1-11 to 0-12 victory over Gerald Griffins in the IFC final replay at the LIT Gaelic Groiunds.

The GAA are strongly considering the decommissioning of the ‘maor foirne’ role in Gaelic football and hurling.

Former Limerick captain Donal O’Grady has replaced Brian Geary in John Kiely’s management team for 2002 as Kiely was last night ratified for another two years at the helm with the option of a third.

It’s 80 years since Kerry won the All-Ireland in the Dingle colours of red and white that were originally a set of Cork jerseys.

One hasn’t really lived as a journalist unless you’ve pointed a recording device at a winning manager and posed the most pointless question of them all: What was said in the dressing-room at half-time?

Shortly after the final whistle, the two teams mingled, swapped jerseys, and smiled in the middle of the field. Level 15 times and never more than two points difference between them, it was all they could do.

It’s a talent in itself that James Horan can come across as offended even in triumph.

Maurice Fitzgerald was best man at his wedding and four other takeaways.

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

Peter Keane has no interest in discussing the statistics listed elsewhere on this page.

Selector Mikey Sheehy and coach Pádraic Corcoran stood with Éamonn Fitzmaurice for all six of his years as Kerry senior football manager. In a turbulent last 12 months, they weren’t spared much rod but it’s the players they feel most for.

On the basis that former manager Pat O’Shea and Laois boss John Sugrue are unavailable or not interested and potential candidates for the future like Declan O’Sullivan and Seamus Moynihan aren’t ready, the shortlist to be the next Kerry football manager is just that — short.

Don’t judge me. If I’m on trial for soaking up the splendours of the south of France this week, looking out at the mile-high yachts of Roman Abramovich and the like, I am guilty as charged, writes Colm Cooper. 

Tony Leen asks three key questions ahead of the clash between Cork and Kerry. 

For Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, a bittersweet victory.

The Kerry minor footballers have been viewed through a slightly skewed lens, says selector Tommy Griffin.

Gerald Griffins (Limerick) 0-6 Glenbeigh-Glencar (Kerry) 1-13: Kerry’s Glenbeigh-Glencar secured a Munster Club JFC final date against Cork’s Gabriel Rangers in Mallow next month with this routine win over the Limerick champions, Gerald Griffins.

If Éamonn Fitzmaurice thought Kerry’s backroom team was getting too friendly, he knew there was one addition who wouldn’t be slow to throw in a scud or two in the dressing room. In Liam Hassett’s lexicon, ‘beaten’ doesn’t exist...

The bar has been set pretty high for Peter Keane and his Kerry minor footballers.

When I was involved with Kerry, ‘controlled aggression’ was always a mantra we tried to take onto the field. 

In Weekend Sport (Saturday, August 22), your picture caption states, “Tommy Griffin blocks down Colm O’Neill’s effort for a point”. The picture shows him pawing O’Neill in the face, an action which could do serious eye damage.

Whatever happens in Croke Park tomorrow, Kerry will be nourished by its western extremities for the foreseeable future. Dingle and An Ghaeltacht are fertile breeding grounds for the nascent talent coming through the system. Who’s responsible is less important than facilitating the unimpeded movement of the conveyor belt. Five-time All-Ireland winner Tommy Griffin is better-placed than most to look back and forward...

All-Ireland-winning senior and minor manager, Jack O’Connor, is set to be ratified as Kerry’s new U21 football boss tonight, by County Board delegates.

Roddy Collins, one of Ireland’s most colourful characters, is back in management after he signed a two-and-a-half year deal to take over as Waterford United boss.

Colm O’Neill will say goals have never come easy to him but then why does scoring them seem more natural to him than most others? 

The hands raised in interest were few. When Eamonn Fitzmaurice handed back the Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne bainisteoir’s bib last May, there was no flood of CVs lodged in the staff room to replace the Kerry boss.

When Seán Powter pointed for St Francis College, Rochestown in the closing stages of Saturday’s Corn Uí Mhuirí final, it had all the hallmarks of being a match-winner.

The fixing of the Corn Uí Mhuirí final replay between Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne and St Francis College, Rochestown, for Rathmore at 1.30pm on Sunday would appear to have drawn more favour with the Cork school.

The great revival is well underway in West Kerry schools football. 

Munster Post Primary SAFC semi-final: Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 0-12 Clonakilty CC 0-6.

Waterford United 2 Cobh Ramblers 1

The nagging fear that Kerry are hatching a plan is always there.

The nagging fear that Kerry are hatching a plan is always there.

Cork City 2 Waterford United 0

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-8 St Patrick’s, Maghera 1-6

Cork and Kerry are on the road this weekend which may be just as well.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 3-14 De La Salle 3-09

The Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final involving Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne and Coláiste Chríost Rí is to be replayed, the Munster post primary CCC has ruled.

This time it won’t quite feel like walking on eggshells with Roy around.