Kerry GAA
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- For more details of Kerry GAA see Kerry Senior Football Championship or Kerry Senior Club Hurling Championship.
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| Irish: | Ciarraí | ||||||||||||||||
| Province: | Munster | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s): | The Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||
| County Colours: | Green and Gold | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney Austin Stack Park, Tralee |
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| Dominant Sport: | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||
| NFL: | Division 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| NHL: | Division 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Hurling Championship: | Christy Ring Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Camogie: | O'Duffy Cup | ||||||||||||||||
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The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (or Kerry GAA) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kerry. The county board is also responsible for the Kerry inter-county teams.
The Kerry branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1888.
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[edit] Gaelic football
[edit] History
Kerry are the most successful team in Gaelic football. They have won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship on 34 occasions. The county holds a number of distinctive records in football championship history. Kerry has played in more All-Ireland finals than any other team - 52 in all as of 17 September 2006. Although Wexford has the honour of being the first team to win four-in-a-row, Kerry has won four consecutive titles on two occasions (1929-1932 and 1978-1981).
The Kerry team of the 1970s and 1980s is considered one of the greatest of all time. Of the 20 All-Ireland finals held during those two decades, Kerry participated in 12, with victory coming on 9 occasions. In 1982 Kerry came within one minute of winning an unprecedented fifth All-Ireland title in a row. However a late goal by Offaly's Séamus Darby snatched victory away from the Kingdom. This goal was voted third in a poll to find the Top 20 GAA Moments.
Towards the end of the 1980s Kerry went into decline and failed to appear in an All-Ireland final for 10 years having last appeared in 1986 and not again until 1997. This however marked the beginning of another Kerry golden era of sorts. Of the last 10 all irelands, Kerry have contested 6 and won 4. Many have spoke of teams like Armagh and Tyrone, who have both beaten Kerry in recent finals, as becoming successors to Kerry's reign but Kerry have come back time and again and are the current 2006 champions. Kerry put away the Demon of Northern Teams by beating Armagh in last year's championship comprehensivly.
[edit] Kerry Football Squad
| Number | Player | Position | Local Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diarmuid Murphy | Goalkeeper | Dingle | ||
| 2 | Marc Ó Sé | Right Full Back | An Ghaeltacht | ||
| 3 | Mike McCarthy | Full Back | Kilcummin | ||
| 4 | Tom O'Sullivan | Left Full Back | Rathmore | ||
| 5 | Tomás Ó Sé | Right Wing Back | An Ghaeltacht | ||
| 6 | Séamus Moynihan | Centre Back | Glenflesk | ||
| 7 | Aidan O'Mahony | Left Wing Back | Rathmore | ||
| 8 | Darragh Ó Sé | Midfield | An Ghaeltacht | ||
| 9 | Tommy Griffin | Midfield | Dingle | ||
| 10 | Seán O'Sullivan | Right Wing Forward | Cromane | ||
| 11 | Declan O'Sullivan Captain | Right Wing Forward | Dromid Pearses | ||
| 12 | Paul Galvin | Left Wing Forward | Finuge | ||
| 13 | Colm Cooper | Right Corner Forward | Dr. Crokes | ||
| 14 | Kieran Donaghy | Full Forward | Austin Stacks | ||
| 15 | Mike Frank Russell | Left Corner Forward | Laune Rangers | ||
| Substitutes | |||||
| 16 | Kieran Cremin | Goalkeeper | Dr. Crokes | ||
| 17 | Eoin Brosnan | Centre Forward | Dr. Crokes | ||
| 18 | Darren O'Sullivan | Left Corner Forward | Glenbeigh-Glencar | ||
| 19 | Éamonn Fitzmaurice | Centre Forward | Finuge | ||
| 20 | Bryan Sheehan | Full Forward | St.Marys Caherciveen | ||
| 21 | Mossie Lyons | Left Wing Back | Castleisland Desmonds | ||
| 22 | Brendan Guiney | Left Wing Back | Listowel Emmets | ||
| 23 | Rónán O'Connor | Full Forward | St.Michaels Foilmore | ||
| 24 | Pádraig Reidy | Right Wing Back | Scartaglin | ||
| 25 | Paul O'Connor | Left Corner Forward | Kenmare | ||
| 26 | Killian Young | Right Corner Back | Renard | ||
| 27 | Ronan Hussey | Right Wing Forward | Sneem | ||
| 28 | Kieran O'Leary | Right Corner Forward | Dr. Crokes | ||
| 29 | Áodán MacGearailt | Left Wing Forward | An Ghaeltacht | ||
| 30 | Adrian O'Connell | Right Corner Back | St.Michaels Foilmore | ||
| Declan Quill | Left Corner Forward | Kerins O’Rahilly’s | |||
| Donnacha Walsh | Midfielder | Cromane | |||
| Michael Quirke | Midfielder | Kerins O’Rahilly’s | |||
| Management Team | |||||
| Pat O'Shea | Manager | Dr. Crokes | |||
| Dr. Dave Geaney | Selector | Castleisland Desmonds | |||
| Seán Geaney | Selector | Dingle | |||
| John Sugrue | Physical Trainer | Renard | |||
[edit] Notable individuals
- Mick O'Connell
- Mick O'Dwyer
- Joe Keohane
- Sean Murphy
- Jack O'Shea
- John Egan
- Ger Power
- John O'Keeffe
- Maurice Fitzgerald
- Seamus Moynihan
- Joe Barrett
[edit] 8 time Senior All-Ireland winners
- Dan O'Keefe first player to win 7 all-ireland medals.
- Pat Spillane
- Mikey Sheehy
- Páidí Ó Sé
- Ogie Moran
- Ger Power
[edit] Honours
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: 14
- 1913, 1915, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1963, 1967, 1983, 1991, 1994 , 2006
- National Football Leagues: 18
- 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2006
- Munster Senior Football Championships: 71
- 1892, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1919, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Munster Under 21 Football Championships: 24
- 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002
- Munster Minor Football Championships: 39
- 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,2006
- Munster Junior Football Championships: 37
- 1913, 1914, 1915, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006
- Railway Cup Football: 2
- 1927(all Kerry players), 1931(all Kerry players)
[edit] Hurling
In the 1993 Munster championship, John Meyler's Kerry team defeated Waterford hurlers by 4-13 to 3-13. It was reward for years of progress which included a draw with Kilkenny in the League, and Kerry followed it up in 1995 with their most famous ever League victory, over newly crowned All Ireland champions Clare. Kerry's first All-Ireland was in hurling. Only club teams were allowed in 1891, so Kilmoyley club, a team from North Kerry, disbanded and joined up with Ballyduff so their joint team could win the All-Ireland. After the game the rules were changed to allow selected county teams in the Championship.
[edit] Kerry Hurling Squad
| Number | Player | Position | Local Club | ||
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| 1 | John Healy | Ballyheigue | |||
| 2 | John Fitzgerald | Causeway | |||
| 3 | Micheal Lucid | Ballyheigue | |||
| 4 | David Slattery | Ballyduff | |||
| 5 | Kieran O'Sullivan | Ballyheigue | |||
| 6 | Mike Quilter | Lixnaw | |||
| 7 | Andrew Keane | Crotta | |||
| 8 | Aidan Healy | Abbeydorney | |||
| 9 | Paudie Lyons | St. Brendans | |||
| 10 | John Egan | Ballyduff | |||
| 11 | Aidan Boyle | Ballyduff | |||
| 12 | Darren Dineen | St. Brendans | |||
| 13 | Mikey Boyle | Ballyduff | |||
| 14 | Mike Conway | Lixnaw | |||
| 15 | John Mike Dooley | Causeway | |||
| Substitutes | |||||
| 16 | Giles O'Grady | Ballyduff | |||
| 17 | Nicholas O'Sullivan | St. Brendans | |||
| 18 | Kieran Hanafin | Abbeydorney | |||
| 19 | Michael Hanafin | Abbeydorney | |||
| 20 | Pa Quill | Crotta O'Neills | |||
| 21 | Greg Fealy | Abbeydorney | |||
| 22 | Seamus Cremin | Kilgarvan | |||
| 23 | Ivan McCarthy | St.Brendans | |||
| 24 | Denis Moriarty | St. Brendans | |||
| 25 | Paul McCarthy | Kilmoyley | |||
| 26 | Colin Harris | Kilmoyley | |||
| 27 | Patrick Dowling | Lixnaw | |||
| 28 | Sean Wallace | Lixnaw | |||
| 29 | Brian O'Donovan | Abbeydorney | |||
| 30 | Killian Fitzmaurice | Lixnaw | |||
| 31 | Sean Maunsell | Kilmoyley | |||
| 32 | Liam Boyle | Ballyduff | |||
| 33 | Stephen 'Hogan' Dennehy | Lixnaw | |||
| Management Team | |||||
| Maurice Leahy | Manager | Causeway | |||
| Mike Hennessy | Selector | Ballyduff | |||
| Mike Casey | Selector | St. Brendans | |||
| John O'Keeffe | Trainer | Austin Stacks | |||
| Ger Power | Trainer | Austin Stacks | |||
[edit] Honours
B 2006
- National Hurling Leagues: None
- Munster Under 21 Hurling Championships: None
- Munster Minor Hurling Championships: None
- Munster Junior Hurling Championships: 1
- 1956
[edit] Stadia
- FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney - home venue for the Senior football team
- Austin Stack Park, Tralee
[edit] Club Titles
- Kerry Senior Football Championship
- Kerry Senior Hurling Championship
- Kerry Intermediate Football Championship
- Kerry Junior Football Championship
- Kerry Novice Football Championship
- Kerry Minor Football Championship
- Kerry Under-21 Football Championship
[edit] See also
List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals
[edit] External links
- Kerry on Hoganstand.com
- National and provincial titles won by Kerry teams
- Club championship winners
- Kerry GAA site
- Causeway GAA site Hurling club from North Kerry
| Gaelic Athletic Association | ||
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| National Football League | ||
| Division 1 | A |
Cork | Donegal | Dublin | Fermanagh | Kerry | Limerick| Mayo | Tyrone |
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Armagh | Derry | Down | Galway | Kildare | Laois | Louth | Westmeath |
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| Division 2 | A |
Carlow | Clare | Leitrim | London | Longford | Monaghan| Offaly | Roscommon |
| B |
Antrim | Cavan | Meath | Sligo | Tipperary | Wexford| Waterford | Wicklow |
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| National Hurling League | ||
| Division 1 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 2 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 3 | A | |
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| Connacht | Leinster | Munster | Ulster | Third level | ||
| All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship - Christy Ring Cup (2007) | ||
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Carlow | Down | Derry | Kerry | Kildare | London | Mayo | Meath | Wicklow | Westmeath |
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Liam McCarthy Cup (Tier 1) - Christy Ring Cup (Tier 2) - Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 3) |
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