Jump to content

Kerry GAA: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
ClueBot (talk | contribs)
1,596,818 edits
m Reverting possible vandalism by 143.239.7.3 to version by RjwilmsiBot. False positive? Report it. Thanks, ClueBot. (658942) (Bot)
Kerryman21 (talk | contribs)
3,183 edits
Line 42: Line 42:
===Kerry Football Squad===
===Kerry Football Squad===
*Manager: [[Jack O'Connor (GAA)|Jack O'Connor]] ([[Dromid Pearses]])
*Manager: [[Jack O'Connor (GAA)|Jack O'Connor]] ([[Dromid Pearses]])
*Selectors: [[Ger O'Keeffe]] ([[Austin Stacks]]), [[Éamonn Fitzmaurice]] ([[Finuge GAA|Finuge]])
*Selectors: [[Ger O'Keeffe]] ([[Austin Stacks]]), [[Diarmuid Murphy]] ([[Dingle GAA|Dingle]])
*Trainers: [[Alan O'Sullivan]] ([[Kenmare GAA|Kenmare]]), [[Pat Flanagan]]
*Trainers: [[Alan O'Sullivan]] ([[Kenmare GAA|Kenmare]]), [[Pat Flanagan]]
{{GAA squad start}}
{{GAA squad start}}

Revision as of 12:17, 31 August 2010

For more details of Kerry GAA see Kerry Senior Football Championship or Kerry Senior Club Hurling Championship.
{{{team}}}
Irish:Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Chontae Chiarraí
Nickname(s):The Kingdom
Province:Munster
Dominant sport:Gaelic football
Ground(s):FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney
Austin Stack Park, Tralee
County colours:Green and Gold
County teams
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

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.

Football

History

Kerry is the most successful team in the history of Gaelic football. It has won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship on 36 occasions and the National Football League 19 times, both of which are far more than any other county. The county holds a number of distinctive records in football championship history. As of 2009, Kerry has contested 55 All-Ireland finals, the next highest participator being Dublin with 35 appearances.

The traditional Irish game of caid, from which modern football developed, was especially popular in Kerry. The GAA was formed in 1884 and codified the modern rules of the game, which were soon adopted in Kerry clubs such as Laune Rangers. Despite this, the county team did not win an All-Ireland football championship in the nineteenth century. The 1903 title was the first won by Kerry, and their exceptional success in the game began in this period, continuing up to the present day.

The Kerry team of the 1970s and 1980s is considered to be arguably the greatest in the history of football [1][2][3] and its manager (Mick O'Dwyer) the greatest of all time.[1][4][5] Of the 20 All-Ireland finals held during those two decades, Kerry participated in 12, with victory coming on 9 occasions. During this time most other finals were won by Dublin, and there was a major rivalry between the two counties especially during the 1970s and 1980s. 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 which caused controversy (as many claim Darby pushed the Kerry defender in the back) gave the title to Offaly. 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 did not appear in an All-Ireland final for 11 years, between 1986 and 1997. The 1997 victory, however, very much marked the beginning of another golden era for Kerry. Of the 13 All-Ireland finals from 1997 to 2009, Kerry have contested 9 and won 6, including 5 titles in the 2000s. In 2007, Kerry became the first team since Cork in 1990 to win back to back All Irelands. On 30 August 2009 Kerry became only the 3rd team to reach 6 All Ireland finals in a row, last achieved by Dublin 1974 to 1979, and went on to secure their 36th title by defeating Cork in the final.

Kerry Football Squad

No. Player Position Club
1 Brendan Kealy Goalkeeper Kilcummin
2 Marc Ó Sé Right Corner Back An Ghaeltacht
3 Tommy Griffin Full Back Dingle
4 Tom O'Sullivan Left Corner Back Rathmore
5 Tomás Ó Sé Right Half Back An Ghaeltacht
6 Mike McCarthy Centre Back Kilcummin
7 Killian Young Left Half Back Reenard
8 Micheál Quirke Midfield Kerins O'Rahilly's
9 Séamus Scanlon Midfield Currow
10 Darran O'Sullivan Right Half Forward Glenbeigh-Glencar
11 Declan O'Sullivan Center Forward Dromid Pearses
12 Donnacha Walsh Left Half Forward Cromane
13 Colm Cooper Right Corner Forward Dr. Crokes
14 Kieran Donaghy Full Forward Austin Stacks
15 Bryan Sheehan Left Corner Forward St. Mary's (Captain)
No. Player Position Club
16 David Hennessey Goalkeeper Kerins O'Rahilly's
17 Pádraig Reidy Right Half Forward Scartaglin
18 Paul Galvin Forward Finuge
19 Anthony Maher Right Half Forward Duagh
20 Adrian O'Connell Midfield St Michael's Foilmore
21 Kieran O'Leary Half Forward Dr. Crokes
22 Barry John Keane Right Corner Back Kerins O'Rahilly's
23 Niall O'Mahony Left Half Forward Spa
24 Pat Corridan Left Corner Forward Finuge
25 David Moran Centre Forward Kerins O'Rahilly's
26 Daniel Bohane Midfield Austin Stacks
27 Paudge O'Connor Legion
28 Johnny Buckley Dr. Crokes
29 Jonathan Lyne Legion
30 James O'Donoghue Legion

Squad as per Kerry vs Cork (Munster Semi Final 2010)[6]

Team of the Millennium

The following Kerry players were among the fifteen selected for the Football Team of the Millennium;[7]

Winners of eight All-Ireland senior medals

Honours

  • All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 36
    • 1903, 1904, 1909, 1913, 1914, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009
  • National Football Leagues: 19
    • 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2009
  • Munster Senior Football Championships: 73
    • 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, 1939, 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, 2007, 2010
  • Munster Minor Football Championships: 41
    • 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, 2006,2008, 2009
  • Munster Junior Football Championships: 39
    • 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, 2008, 2010
  • Railway Cup Football: 2
    • 1927(all Kerry players), 1931(all Kerry players)

(Note that the Railway Cup is contested by provincial sides - these are years in which the Munster team consisted entirely of Kerry players).

All Stars: 122 -

1971: Donie O'Sullivan

1972: Donie O'Sullivan, Mick O'Connell

1973: John O'Keeffe

1974: Paudie Lynch

1975: Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, John Egan, Paudie O'Mahony, Mickey O'Sullivan

1976: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, Ger O'Keeffe

1977: Pat Spillane, John Egan

1978: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, John Egan, Paudie Lynch

1979: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, Tim Kennelly, Seán Walsh

1980: Pat Spillane, Ger Power, Jack O'Shea, John Egan, Eoin Liston, Tim Kennelly, Charlie Nelligan

1981: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé, Eoin Liston, Paudie Lynch, Seán Walsh, Jimmy Deenihan, Denis Moran

1982: Mikey Sheehy, Jack O'Shea, John Egan, Páidí Ó Sé, Eoin Liston

1983: Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé

1984: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé, Eoin Liston, Tommy Doyle, Tom Spillane

1985: Pat Spillane, Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé, Tommy Doyle, Mick Spillane

1986: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, Tommy Doyle, Tom Spillane, Charlie Nelligan

1987: Tom Spillane, Ger Lynch

1988: Maurice Fitzgerald

1989: Connie Murphy

1996: Maurice Fitzgerald

1997: Maurice Fitzgerald, Declan O'Keeffe, Seamus Moynihan, Eamonn Breen, Pa Laide

2000: Declan O'Keeffe, Seamus Moynihan, Mike McCarthy, Darragh Ó Sé, Liam Hassett, Mike Frank Russell

2001: Johnny Crowley

2002: Darragh Ó Sé, Colm Cooper

2004: Diarmuid Murphy, Tom O'Sullivan, Mike McCarthy, Tomás Ó Sé, Paul Galvin, Colm Cooper

2005: Diarmuid Murphy, Mike McCarthy, Tomás Ó Sé, Colm Cooper

2006: Marc Ó Sé, Seamus Moynihan, Aidan O'Mahony, Darragh Ó Sé, Paul Galvin, Kieran Donaghy

2007: Marc Ó Sé, Tomás Ó Sé, Aidan O'Mahony, Darragh Ó Sé, Declan O'Sullivan, Colm Cooper

2008: Tomás Ó Sé, Declan O'Sullivan, Colm Cooper, Kieran Donaghy

2009:Diarmuid Murphy, Tom O'Sullivan, Tomás Ó Sé, Séamus Scanlon, Paul Galvin, Tadhg Kennelly, Declan O'Sullivan

Ladies' Football

Honours

Hurling

Kerry's first All-Ireland championship win 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 that their joint team could win the All-Ireland. This remains Kerry's only hurling title. After the game the rules were changed to allow selected county teams in the Championship. It was the first time s Munster team won both Munster and All Irelands in the same year. As well as 1891 Kerry have played in Munster Senior Hurling Championship Finals in 1889, 1890, 1892, 1900 and 1908.

Kerry's most notable hurling achievement in recent times occurred in the 1993 Munster championship when John Meyler's Kerry team shocked Waterford by a score of 4-13 to 3-13. It was reward for years of progress which included a draw with Kilkenny in the National Hurling League. Kerry followed it up in 1995 with its most famous ever League victory, a win over newly crowned All-Ireland champions Clare.

In 2003 team made it to the 4th round of the qualifiers only to go down to Limerick 1-14 tp 0-24 in Austin Stack Park in Tralee. Along the way the beat Westmeath, Carlow and beaten Ulster finalists Derry. The wins over Westmeath and Carlow was the first time a Kerry team won 2 Championship games in a row. It was also the first time a Kerry hurling team played more championship games then the football team.

In 2010, Kerry were narrowly defeated by Westmeath in the final of the Christy Ring Cup.

Kerry has played in just one Munster Minor Hurling Championship Final, in 1938, when they lost to a Cork team that included the great Christy Ring. It has won and played in a number of All Ireland B Finals however.

Kerry has never won the Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship, its most notable achievement in the championship came in 2004 when they ran Limerick to 3 points in Austin Stack Park. It has however won and played in a number of All Ireland U21 B Championship Finals.

In 2009 a Kerry Colleges team entered the Munster Senior Colleges Dr. Harty Cup for the first time.

Kerry Hurling Squad

No. Player Position Club
1 Bernard Rochford Goalkeeper Killeagh
2 Colm Harris Right Corner Back Kilmoyley
3 Tom Mournane Full Back Kilmoyley
4 Andrew Keane Left Corner Back Crotta O'Neill's
5 James Godley Right Half Back Kilmoyley
6 Liam Boyle Centre Back Ballyduff
7 John Fitzgerald Left Half Back Causeway
8 Michael Conway Midfield Lixnaw
9 John Griffin Midfield Lixnaw
10 John Egan Right Half Forward Ardfert
11 Mikey Boyle Center Forward Ballyduff
12 Darragh O'Connell Left Half Forward Abbeydorney (Capt)
13 John Mike Dooley Right Corner Forward Causeway
14 Gary O'Brien Full Forward Ballyduff
15 Shane Nolan Left Corner Forward Crotta O'Neill's
No. Player Position Club
16 John Brendan O'Halloran Goalkeeper Kilmoyley
17 Brian O'Leary Half Back Abbeydorney
18 Aidan Healy MidField Abbeydorney
19 Colm Harty MidField Causeway
20 James Flaherty Left Corner Forward Lixnaw
21 Eoin Sheehy Full Forward Kilmoyley
22 Ronan Kenny Half Back Ballyheigue
23 James McCarthy Full Forward Kilmoyley
24 Sean Young Left Corner Forward Kilmoyley
25 Niall Young Half Forward Kilmoyley
26 David Fitzelle Left Corner Forward Kilmoyley
27 Shane Brick Half Forward Kilmoyley
28 Jason Casey Left Corner Forward Ballyheigue
29 Padraigh Monson Half Forward Causeway
30 Sean Maunsell Left Corner Forward Kilmoyley
31 Darren Twomey Crotta O'Neill's
32 Adrian Royle Kilmoyley
33 Richard Nolan Crotta O'Neill's
34 Nicky Leen Goalkeeper Ballyduff
35 Andy McCarthy Kilmoyley
36 Patrick O Keefe Glenfesk

Squad as per Kerry vs Wicklow (Christy Ring Cup Semi Final 2010)[8]

Honours

2001

  • Leinster Minor B Hurling Championships: 2
    • 1987,1988

Notable Hurlers

Camogie

Cillard and a selected Kerry team won divisional honours at Féile na nGael in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Notable players include Mary Geaney

Under Camogie’s National Development Plan 2010-2015, “Our Game, Our Passion,”[9] Donegal, Kerry, Mayo and Monaghan are to get a total of 14 new clubs by 2015.[10]

Stadia

Club Titles

See also

List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals

References

  1. ^ a b Keane, Paul (2003-04-20). "GAA: Micko's still the best in my book SAYS ARMAGH'S KERNAN". Sunday Mirror.
  2. ^ The Kingdom - 2005/12/15: Tears flow freely in Listowel on the day they buried a real giant
  3. ^ Irish Examiner - 2005/09/24: Better late than never
  4. ^ Last hurrah looms for football's most remarkable man - Gaelic Football, Sport - Independent.ie
  5. ^ Irish News UK - News from the Irish Community in Britain
  6. ^ "Kerry Senior Football team announced". Cork GAA. 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  7. ^ http://www.gaa.ie/page/football_team_of_the_millennium.html GAA website
  8. ^ "Kerry Senior Hurling team announced". Cork GAA. 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  9. ^ Irish Independent March 29 2010: Final goal for camogie
  10. ^ National Development Plan 2010-2015, Our Game, Our Passion information page on camogie.ie, pdf download (778k) from Camogie.ie download site
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kerry_GAA&oldid=382056936"