Sunday 19 May 2013
Diarmuid Murphy is well accustomed to the rigours of press days and the former Kerry goalkeeper is at ease at the Munster GAA Council's launch of their provincial championships in Mallow on Monday. Murphy was an unmissable yet unassuming presence in the Kerry goalmouth through the great years of the Noughties, and as when he wore the gloves, the Dingle man fields questions and lays off answers with the same coolness and confidence.
NOT that long ago they were the most feared brand name in the county.
THE Kerry senior football team will train for this year's championship behind closed doors in Fitzgerald Stadium to prevent unwelcome spying by outside forces.
KERRY is this week gearing up to host part of two stages in the An Post Rás.
SHE has had many high points in recent years, but Thursday fairly took the biscuit for Savannah McCarthy when she was presented with the Irish Traveller Pride Award 2013 for sporting achievements by her long-term role model Katie Taylor.
THIS, we assumed, wasn't going to be easy.
When a team have the passion and desire to succeed in any game nothing is impossible and Shanakill Athletic displayed that emphatically on Sunday when they lifted the Denny Division 2A title with a thrilling victory over a gallant Skelliga side in an entertaining final at Mounthawk Park on Sunday.
The Kerry County Juvenile Track and Field Championships were held last Saturday and Sunday in very wet and windy conditions. As usual there were many fine performances from athletes of all ages and despite the poor weather there were 11 championship best performances in field events alone.
FOUR days later the planning began.
ONE of the busiest approach roads to Listowel is in a 'dreadful' state, but can expect little funding from on high as the NRA allocation for regional roads is now a fraction of what it once was.
A BUTCHER who defecated in a cell in Listowel Garda Station and contested a charge that he had failed to give his name and address to gardaí lost his case at Listowel District Court on Thursday.
A BALLYHEIGUE couple who suffered the unimaginable heartache of losing their daughter just two weeks before she was due to be born have thanked the people of north Kerry for contributing so generously to the charity that helped them cope with their tragic loss.
A DRUNKEN altercation resulted in a district court fine of €240 for a young Listowel footballer who was seen shouting and roaring at another male by gardai.
A man who arrived at a woman's door, allegedly brandishing a knife, could be facing a jail term as the incident may have occurred while he was subject to a suspended sentence following an earlier conviction.
THE death has occurred of one of Killarney's pioneering industrialists, former Managing Director of Pretty Polly, Ralph de Zaayer.
IT first opened in 1967 in response to the increasing demand for seam-free, hold-up tights and it employed over 800 people in its pomp.
THE irate father of a teenage girl who is lucky to be alive after her car overturned on a notorious bend near Milltown has claimed that Kerry County Council will have "blood on its hands" if it fails to persuade the NRA to make the road safe.
FATALITIES caused by drowning increased by 100pc in Kerry in the five-year period from 2007 to 2011.
WHILE Kerry Mountain Rescue Team may be busier than ever due to a rise in numbers availing of relatively cost free pursuits, the economic downturn has had the opposite for Derrynane Inshore Rescue and the service has reported a fall in maritime incidents.
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