Rejuvenated Kerry club set for its finest hour

AN historic week in Irish football didn’t begin and end with Marco Tardelli’s press conference at FAI headquarters in Abbotstown on Tuesday.

Tonight a first international fixture will be played in Kerry when the Republic of Ireland face Germany in an U16 friendly.

What’s more remarkable is that host club, Listowel Celtic, was homeless four years ago and tonight’s Tanavalla venue was then little more than grazing land. So what’s changed? A combination of hard work and the right circumstances according to club chairman Aiden O’Connor.