Kevin Feely making his mark for Lilies

Kevin Feely doesn’t know what better way to put why he waved goodbye on a career across the Irish Sea.

Kildare on the other hand? A labour of love. Signed by Charlton Athletic in 2012 from Bohemians, he never made an appearance for the Addicks before a few loan spells, the last of them earning him another contract at Newport County. But his heart was never in it.

“It was never really something that I was overly enjoying. I never had any huge ambitions to do good things in soccer, whereas I would have always looked at Gaelic as something I could achieve things in with Athy and Kildare and that was definitely the main reason behind coming home.”