Kerry

The curse on Mayo football, allegedly laid on the 1950s team, has found plenty of corroboration in the past 30 years. Since last winning the Sam Magui(...)

There is a certain breed of Kerryman who can politely divert controversy by answering a question with a question, and Peter Keane is chief among them.(...)

The Allianz football league returned this weekend and brought with it the competition’s flair for voodoo and the unexpected. On Saturday night in Cro(...)

Among his many and various accomplishments down the years, Dessie Farrell is responsible for one of the great hangdog one-liners ever to fall from a f(...)

Saturday evening and Ciarán Whelan, stationed at the edge of the Croke Park pitch, was reminiscing on RTÉ about the days when the National League was (...)

Another year in the Kerry jersey is upon Tommy Walsh, as his third stint moves into added time. Next month he’ll turn 32 and, for a man who has endure(...)

Paul Geaney is the latest high-profile football player to express misgivings about the introduction of the advanced mark. Despite expectations that th(...)

After 135 years of waiting, an extra 13 days to complete football’s first five-in-a-row probably should not have bothered Con O’Callaghan. He’s not (...)

The best team won the All-Ireland. This All-Ireland, last year’s All-Ireland, the last five-in-a-row, and seven since I started writing this column. A(...)

News comes this hairy Monday morning of a last-minute change to the GAA’s proposals around a tiered football championship. After looking at it every w(...)