Tralee’s footballing overlords have the chance to make history — together

Tralee’s venerable triumvirate – Austin Stacks, John Mitchels, and Kerins O’Rahilly’s – will be playing on the same senior county championship team

ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Austin Stacks’ Cian Purcell is harrassed by Pa Kilkenny and Oisin O’Connor of Glenbeigh-Glencar in Sunday’s Kerry IFC semi-final at Fitzgerald Stadium. Pic: MacMonagle

THE final of Kerry’s intermediate football final has been scheduled for Sunday, Sept 8th, a week before the start of the county senior championship. Two traditional powerhouses - indeed All-Ireland club SFC champions - will vie for the right to reclaim their senior status, Killorglin’s Laune Rangers facing Austin Stacks of Tralee. Neither side has a pup in charge, Killorglin are managed by Liam Hassett with Billy O’Shea alongside while Stacks have former Limerick boss Billy Lee at the helm.

It may not do a whole pile for the SFC preparations of Mid Kerry, with whom Laune Rangers are aligned, nor St Brendan’s, who count Stacks among their constituent parts, but that’s not what has tongues wagging in the Kingdom about the St Brendan’s amalgamation.