by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Mar 21, 2021 | App News, News, Sport
Eamonn Fitzgerald laments the decline of handball, the once popular sport that entertained generations of Killarney people No one shouted ‘stop’. Not my phrase, but that pithy gem came to me when I was walking by St Finan’s Hospital recently, or more...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jan 24, 2021 | App News, News, Sport
In this fascinating interview from 2009, Eamonn Fitzgerald speaks to legendary Irish rugby player (and his former classmate) Moss Keane about his illness, his Gaelic football career and lining out for his country. Eamonn Fitzgerald: First off Moss, to the...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jan 8, 2021 | App News, News, Sport
Killarney Advertiser sports columnist Eamonn Fitzgerald reflects on 2020, a sporting year like no other that produced some fascinating storylines. What’s another year, as we say goodbye to 2020, a year dominated by COVID-19. It impacted on the health of so many...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Nov 23, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Eamonn Fitzgerald speaks to Kerry All-Ireland winner Noel Lucey about his brother, Jimmy, who survived the infamous Siege of Jadotville Heroes should be remembered and it is never too late to do so. I have often been critical of the need for the Irish Senate, seeing...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Oct 17, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Killarney Advertiser columnist Eamonn Fitzgerald says the GAA should postpone the intercounty football and hurling championships due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis Call them off now. Better late than never. I feel that the GAA at national level should call off...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Sep 26, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Ahead of today’s county final, Eamonn Fitzgerald charts the long and storied history of the East Kerry Board East Kerry and Mid Kerry will clash in the Kerry SFC final at Austin Stack Park, Tralee this evening, with very few people there as spectators. I bet...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jul 6, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
In January of 2012, just a few short months before his death, legendary Kerry sports writer Con Houlihan sat down with Killarney Advertiser sports columnist Eamonn Fitzgerald for a wide-ranging conversation. In Part 1 of a two-part interview, Con speaks about his...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jun 19, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
No Olympics this year means no Irish Olympians for us to cheer on, so this week let us remember a Kerry Olympian who was forgotten for all of 45 years. It wasn’t until the late Weeshie Fogarty stopped off for a breather in Castlecove on the 2004 Ring of Kerry Cycle...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | May 8, 2020 | App News, News
Most readers will readily recall September 1982 when Kerry were robbed of a deserving five-in-a-row of All-Ireland titles. On reflection, I feel that Kerry should never have been in that position. The Dubs have that honour and only for the coronavirus fallout they...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jan 17, 2020 | News
Billy Doolan will be inducted into the East Kerry Board Hall of Fame at the annual GAA awards night in the Brehon Hotel tonight. I spoke to the Kilcummin clubman earlier this week. He has served the Kilcummin club for well over 50 years. As an 18-year-old, he was...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jan 13, 2019 | News
Fighter is a new book which gives us an insight into the mind of Andy Lee, who was the WBO middleweight champion from 2014-2015, the first Irish professional boxer to win a world title on American soil since 1934. He also represented Ireland in the 2004 Olympics in...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jan 4, 2019 | News
Acclaimed sports broadcaster Des Cahill was so enamoured by the formula of the Killarney Advertiser that he once considered buying it, according to a passage in his autobiography ‘Play It Again Des’. Cahill, who spent 40 years in journalism – some of it in the...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Dec 23, 2018 | News
The name Davy Fitzgerald is synonymous with great hurling and in later year’s successful management, “but to me, he was one of the greatest goalkeepers to ever play the game”. So states Donal Óg Cusack, another outstanding goalkeeper from Cork. This quote comes from a...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Dec 15, 2018 | News
The fledgling Kerry team is alive and growing in the Dubai region and tournaments are a huge attraction there with up to 1,000 players participating. The Kerry Club was founded by members of the Middle East Kerry Society (MEKS) in May 2018. There are six players from...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Sep 8, 2018 | News
Kerry created history in Croke Park on Sunday last when they won the All-Ireland minor football title defeating Galway by 0-21 to 1-14. They had to do it the hard way, which made victory all the sweeter for Peter Keane. At one stage Galway were leading by seven points...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Aug 19, 2018 | News
The elusive five in a row of All-Ireland minor football titles beckons for Peter Keane and his charges after a pulsating semi-final at Croke Park on Sunday last, where Kerry just edged out Monaghan 1-16 to 2-11. Kerry have won the minor titles for the past four years...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jun 23, 2018 | News
Provincial finals are special and the intense rivalry between Cork and Kerry over many decades makes the Munster football final extra special. Kerry will face Cork in the senior final tomorrow at 7pm in Páirc Uí Chaoimh while the minors will meet Clare at 4.30pm. The...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | May 30, 2018 | News
Words: Eamonn Fitzgerald Kerry begin the defence of their Munster SFC title on Sunday next in the Fitzgerald Stadium when they meet Clare with a throw-in time of 3.30pm. In the curtain-raiser at 1.30pm the Kerry ladies play Waterford. The winners of the Kerry v...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | May 27, 2018 | News
As you enter Sneem from Killarney you are met with the imposing lifesize monument erected in memory of Steve Casey, a world champion from a family of champions. Weeshie Fogarty did a fine Terrace Talk programme on Steve and on his six other brothers, also world...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | May 15, 2018 | News
The race for the 2018 Sam Maguire began in earnest last weekend with games in the three provinces but no action in Munster. That Munster series gets underway tomorrow at the Gaelic Grounds where Clare and Limerick meet at 7pm. It is of special interest to Kerry as...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Dec 19, 2017 | News
DR CROKES climaxed a great year at home on Sunday when they defeated An Ghaeltacht by 2-13 to 1-10 in the county league division senior football final at Lewis Road. Fielding just 10 of the starting side from the Nemo defeat they led all the way, scoring an early...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Nov 28, 2017 | News
DR CROKES lost their Munster club title to a rampant Nemo Rangers side at Páirc UI Rinn on Sunday. Nemo won by a mere five points but they could well have won by double that, had they not spurned six goal opportunities. There was no goal in the match which finished 16...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Oct 22, 2017 | News
THE Dr Crokes chairman Denis Coleman was very busy preparing for the big match when I spoke to him. “Yes, it is an extremely busy time for me factoring in the logistics of the preparation. Isn’t it great to be busy in October at the business end of reaching a county...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Oct 2, 2017 | News
IT IS hard to believe that he has gone to his eternal reward. He was so full of life which belied his 82 years. We thought he would go on forever. I first met Jimmy Magee in the Fitzgerald Stadium in the mid-80s, where recently retired Kerry players lined out against...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jun 25, 2017 | News
FROM this morning and throughout the day, the rowing fraternity of Killarney will flock to the Mahony’s Point course where the 232nd annual Killarney Regatta is being staged and the news emerging from all six competing clubs is that they will be competing in all the...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Feb 10, 2017 | News
THE AIB GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Club Championship Semi-Final between Corofin and Dr Crokes has been fixed for 4pm in the Gaelic Grounds Limerick tomorrow. Corofin have won six Connacht titles, just one less than Roscommon’s Clanna Gael. Crokes have been the...
by Eamonn Fitzgerald | Jan 24, 2017 | News
AT THE first Kerry County Committee Meeting of January 17 David Clifford of Fossa was confirmed as captain of the Kerry minor football team for 2017. David was nominated by county minor champions East Kerry and it is a well-deserved honour for this most talented...
