Kerry master McGrath test

THE Kerry management are confident of having their goal-keeping position resolved before the end of the Allianz NFL, with coach Jack O’Connor indicating after yesterday’s game in Fitzgerald Stadium that they are unlikely to “spread the net” beyond the three players who have filled the position so far in the McGrath Cup following Diarmuid Murphy’s retirement.

Kilcummin’s Brendan Kealy was the one who stood in yesterday, having relatively little to do apart from making a confident high catch at the start of each half before having the ball kicked under his legs for the only goal of this semi-final.

That came from hard-working midfielder George Hannigan five minutes from the end of normal time and it put Tipperary briefly in front until substitutes James O’Donoghue and Barry John Keane combined to produce an equalising score three minutes later.