NEWS ROUND-UP: KERRY ALL STAR Tadhg Kennelly has admitted that his controversial challenge on Cork's Nicholas Murphy in the first moments of last month's AllIreland football final was premeditated.
The GAA coach in Kerry says his elbow charge on the Cork midfielder was intended to lay down a marker and that he had told room-mate Paul Galvin of his intentions the night before the game. The revelation is made in his autobiography, Unfinished Business, which is to be published this week.
“My theory was that I really wanted to set the tone for our side. We wanted Cork to know that we were a totally different animal to the one they’d faced three months earlier.
“As we got to our positions, I looked across at (Paul) Galvin, who nodded, and then positioned myself on the line ready to race in when the referee put the ball in the air. My eyes were almost rolling around in the back of my head. I was like a raging bull.”
Meanwhile, 73-year-old Mick ODwyer has confirmed he will remain in charge of the Wicklow footballers for the 2010 season.
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