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 Killarney Advertiser | Oct 10, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
The unlikeliest of results led to the unlikeliest of FPL stars this past weekend as Jack Grealish and Ollie Watkins fired Aston Villa to an astonishing 7-2 win over the champions, Liverpool, at Villa Park. Grealish was the top performing fantasy player of the week as...
by Adam Moynihan | Oct 2, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kerry GAA came under fire last Saturday night when technical difficulties with their county final livestream left thousands of viewers staring at a blank screen. As had been the case in previous rounds, supporters were invited to purchase the stream for the big match...
by Adam Moynihan | Sep 26, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kerry Senior Football Championship Final East Kerry v Mid Kerry Today at 7pm Austin Stack Park Live on 247.tv We made it anyway. That’s the main thing. For a while there it looked like we wouldn’t have any County Championship this year, so well done to all...
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 Killarney Advertiser | Sep 19, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kenmare native John Crowley has been declared the winner of the first ever Killarney Advertiser Fantasy Club game after he romped home to victory with a whopping 51 points to spare. Crowley, who is a garda in Killarney, finished head and shoulders above the...
by Adam Moynihan | Sep 18, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kerry District League Secretary John O’Regan says that “personal attacks” and media criticism have made him consider his position as the head of soccer in the county. O’Regan has come under fire this week amidst allegations that the league...
by Adam Moynihan | Sep 17, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Champagne Football co-author Paul Rowan says he was “flabbergasted” by Michael Healy-Rae’s infamous defence of John Delaney at the Oireachtas Committee for Sport in April of last year. Delaney, who was the Executive Vice President of the FAI at the time, was appearing...
by Adam Moynihan | Sep 15, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
The Secretary of the Kerry District League, John O’Regan, has said that the money he collected from spectators at a recent game at Mounthawk Park in Tralee was for charity. O’Regan denies claims that he charged an admission fee of €5 at the Premier A League Final...
by Adam Moynihan | Sep 11, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Killarney Advertiser Sports Editor Adam Moynihan previews this weekend’s Kerry Senior Football Championship semi-finals. Kerry SFC Semi-Final East Kerry v St Brendan’s Tonight at 7.30pm Austin Stack Park (LIVE on TG4) The big news ahead of this...
by Killarney Advertiser | Sep 5, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kerry Premier A League Final Killarney Celtic v Killarney Athletic Sunday at 2pm Mounthawk Park, Tralee Old rivals Killarney Celtic and Killarney Athletic will fight it out for the biggest prize in Kerry soccer when they meet in the Denny Premier A league final on...
by Adam Moynihan | Sep 4, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
With sport being played behind closed doors in line with COVID-19 restrictions, it’s great that supporters have been able to watch Club and County Championship action online via Kerry GAA’s live streams. The option to view games after the fact is an added bonus and...
by Killarney Advertiser | Aug 30, 2020 | News, Sport
Traffic chaos looming as schools return Killarney Gardai will monitor traffic and illegal parking in areas close to schools from Monday morning. Killarney is bracing itself for traffic chaos as schools across the town return for the first time since March 12. In...
by Adam Moynihan | Aug 29, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kerry GAA have defended the cost of their Senior Football Championship live streams after supporters criticised their pricing policy online. With spectators unable to attend sporting events due to COVID-19 restrictions, the County Board have been streaming matches via...
by Adam Moynihan | Aug 28, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Killarney Celtic have reached the Promised Land. After years of close calls and hard luck stories, at both senior and underage level, The Celts have finally secured the national soccer title that they craved so badly. And they couldn’t have done it in more spectacular...
by Adam Moynihan | Aug 28, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
An impressive jump of 1.90m was enough to secure a silver medal for Jordan Lee at the National U23 Athletics Championships, which were held at the Morton Stadium in Santry last weekend. Lee was competing against able bodied athletes at the prestigious event and once...
by Killarney Advertiser | Aug 22, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
The Killarney Rugby Club seniors are back up and running and their recently appointed management team are looking for new recruits to join the camp. “Killarney RFC would like to extend a welcome to anybody looking to try out the game, and to former players who would...
by Adam Moynihan | Aug 21, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
FAI Youth Cup Final Killarney Celtic v Douglas Hall Sunday at 2pm Mounthawk Park, Tralee Killarney Celtic’s exploits in this season’s FAI Youth Cup are already the stuff of club legend but this talented group of youngsters are not quite finished yet. Over the...
by Adam Moynihan | Aug 21, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
It’s championship season in Kerry. Sixteen of our finest football teams going head to head for the county’s biggest prize, the Bishop Moynihan trophy. And, in a win for the nostalgists, it’s straight knockout for the first time since 2001. What more could you ask for?...
by Adam Moynihan | Aug 7, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Week 2 was not quite as free-flowing or high-scoring as the first – the dismal weather saw to that – but it was certainly just as tense as no more than a kick of a ball separated the sides in all four matches in the Kerry Senior Club Championship. Silverware is still...
by Adam Moynihan | Aug 7, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Forwards ruled the roost in Round 1 but the adverse weather conditions meant that backs and midfielders were the big points-getters in the second round of the Killarney Advertiser Fantasy Club game in association with Gaelic Plus. The wet ball tends to lead to better...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jul 31, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
The Killarney Advertiser Fantasy Club game in association with Gaelic Plus got underway last weekend and the unique new competition has captured the imagination of players and supporters right across the county. Entrants scrambled to submit their perfect teams ahead...
by Adam Moynihan | Jul 31, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Round 1 is in the can and the return of championship football was enjoyed by all who (by hook or by crook) bore witness to one or more of the 28 games that took place over a hectic opening weekend. With only 200 people allowed inside the ground in these...
by Adam Moynihan | Jul 25, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
FAI Junior Cup: Quarter-Final Killarney Celtic v Fairview Rangers Saturday at 5pm Celtic Park Ahead of Saturday’s huge quarter-final clash with Fairview of Limerick, Celtic manager Brian Spillane has called on his senior players to seize what could well be...
by Adam Moynihan | Jul 25, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kerry Senior Club Championship Dr Crokes 1-18 Templenoe 0-10 Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney It was quiet in the Fitzgerald Stadium last night. How quiet? Well, maybe this anecdote will illustrate the point. Towards the end of this one-sided encounter between...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jul 24, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
We might not all get in the gate to see it but the local game makes its long-awaited return this weekend with 28 matches taking place in the various grades of the Kerry Club Championship. The government’s decision to stick with the 200-person limit means that only a...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jul 21, 2020 | App News, Features, News, Sport
We were all part of Jackie’s Army Killarney pays tribute to a sporting icon By Sean Moriarty The great Jack Charlton will make his final journey today as he is laid to rest at in his native Newcastle. At 12.30 today radio stations in Ireland and Britain will...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jul 10, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
The coronavirus pandemic delayed the start of the Kerry Senior Club Championship but now it’s back on, and so is the Killarney Advertiser Fantasy Club game in association with Gaelic Plus. In March we unveiled plans to set up a revolutionary new fantasy football game...
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 Adam Moynihan | Jul 3, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Tunisia v Serbia and Montenegro. August 17, 2004. The Olympic Games in Athens. Nikola Milojević hunkers down on his goal line with his hands on his knees. Astoundingly, the Serbian goalkeeper is about to face his fourth penalty kick in just two minutes. With the game...
by Adam Moynihan | Jun 26, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
In the summer of 1975, a band of wide-eyed teenagers with dreams of conquering Kerry soccer formed a new club called the Killarney Rangers. A little over a year later, they were gone. This week Adam Moynihan spoke to former players Diarmuid O’Donoghue and Tom Griffin...
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 Adam Moynihan | Jun 19, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
John Mitchels of Tralee have come under scrutiny this past week after the Irish republican for whom they are named was outed as a racist. In the third and final article in our Racism in Sport series, Adam Moynihan asks what, if anything, should happen next. Recent...
by Adam Moynihan | Jun 12, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Almost 16% of people living Kerry are of non-‘White Irish’ descent, yet our Gaelic football teams are almost exclusively made up of white Irish players. In Part II of a three-part series on racism in Irish sport, Adam Moynihan asks why so few foreign nationals and...
by Adam Moynihan | Jun 5, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
In Part I of a three-part series on racism in Irish sport, Adam Moynihan speaks to some local black athletes about the discrimination they face both on and off the pitch. In the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer...
by Adam Moynihan | May 30, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Killarney Advertiser Sports Editor and former St Brendan’s captain Adam Moynihan selects a dream team of some of the best footballers to ever play for the Sem. For at least a hundred years now, St Brendan’s College has been a dominant force in schools football,...
by Adam Moynihan | May 29, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
What did Michael Jordan do after The Last Dance? He did what any wealthy American retiree would do. He came to Killarney to play golf and drink Guinness. To find out what the GOAT was really like, Adam Moynihan spoke to the locals who showed him around back in May of...
by Killarney Advertiser | May 22, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Killarney Advertiser Sports Editor Adam Moynihan selects his perfect XI made up of the best players he has played with in the blue of Killarney Athletic. Brendan Kealy Brendan is obviously better known for Gaelic football but he’s an exceptional soccer...
by Killarney Advertiser | May 22, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Former Killarney Celtic defender and current senior manager Brian Spillane picks a fantasy team made up of the best Celts he has ever played with. GK – Roy Kelliher Roy is a quiet lad on and off the pitch but his qualities are there for everyone to see....
by Adam Moynihan | May 16, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
In the fifth and final part of our Golden Years series, Adam Moynihan reflects on Kerry’s infamous defeat to Offaly in 1982 and how their leader stayed on to build a new team of champions I know. I don’t want to talk about it. You don’t want to read about. Let’s just...
by Adam Moynihan | May 8, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
In Part 4 of our series on the Golden Years, Adam Moynihan takes a look at the 1981 All-Ireland final which saw Kerry secure their second ever four-in-a-row. By the time the 1981 championship came around, Kerry were in cruise control. With three consecutive...
by Adam Moynihan | May 5, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Kerry captain David Clifford has confirmed that he would be happy to play this year’s intercounty championship behind closed doors if necessary. Speaking to this journalist in a wide-ranging interview for Killarney-based insurance broker GMHD.ie, Clifford said...
by Adam Moynihan | May 1, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
A poll carried out by the Killarney Advertiser this week has found that 55% of our readers would rather see the GAA staging senior intercounty matches behind closed doors than cancelling the 2020 championships entirely. With mass gatherings of over 5,000 people...
by Adam Moynihan | May 1, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
A new decade, same old Kerry. In Part 3 of our Golden Years series, Adam Moynihan dissects The Kingdom’s bruising triumph over Roscommon in the 1980 All-Ireland final. It was an unlikely rivalry. The two counties were, after all, at opposite ends of the honours list....
by Adam Moynihan | Apr 24, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
After the so-called flash in the pan of ‘75 and the ambush of ’78, it was time for The Kingdom to put the final nail in their greatest rival’s coffin. In Part 2 of our series on the Golden Years, Adam Moynihan examines the 1979 All-Ireland final between Kerry and the...
by Killarney Advertiser | Apr 24, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
The GAA may be forced to stage this summer’s senior intercounty football and hurling championships behind closed doors after the government confirmed on Tuesday that mass gatherings of over 5,000 people will not be permitted until September at the earliest. The...
by Adam Moynihan | Apr 17, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Sheehy’s chip. Bomber’s hat-trick. Four (yes, four) different goalkeepers. In the first of a new series of articles on Kerry GAA’s Golden Years, Adam Moynihan takes an in-depth look at The Kingdom’s shock victory over the Dubs in ‘78. We’ve all seen it. The goal...
by Adam Moynihan | Apr 10, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Nicknames are rampant in Ireland and it’s hard to say exactly why. Maybe using pet names is our way of showing affection. Maybe we just love making fun of one another – certain sobriquets seem to have their roots in funny stories or amusing likenesses. In some...
by Adam Moynihan | Apr 10, 2020 | App News, News, Sport
Killarney high jumper Jordan Lee talks to Adam Moynihan about adapting his training regime during the shutdown and his thoughts on the Paralympic Games being moved to 2021. Well Jordan, how’s the lockdown going for you? Is it challenging to train and keep fit...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 31, 2019 | App News, News, Sport
Four in a row for Lakers By Eamon Keogh Basketball: National League Division One IT Carlow 70 Scotts Lakers Killarney 111 SCOTTS Lakers picked up their fourth win on the trot with a very impressive and comprehensive victory on the road against IT Carlow...
