Brendan’s prepare for final voyage

CANON Larry Kelly still retains the passion for Gaelic football he had when a pupil and a staff member at St Brendan’s College, Killarney.

He talks fervently of the great tradition he inherited when he took over as coach to the senior football team in the 1970s. But unlike many of his predecessors, Canon Larry has had the distinction of coaching an All-Ireland winning team in 1992, when the Sem won their second Hogan Cup title. It was their last.

Nevertheless, St Brendan’s has been a tremendous footballing nursery for Kerry. The Spillane brothers Pat, Tom and Mick, the Lynch brothers Brendan and Paudie, John O’Keeffe, Seamus Moynihan and Johnny Culloty are among a host of senior All-Ireland winners who went to school in “The Sem”.