Kerry GAA

For more details of Kerry GAA see Kerry Senior Football Championship or Kerry Senior Club Hurling Championship.

Kerry GAA

Irish:	Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Chontae Chiarraí
Province:	Munster
Nickname(s):	The Kingdom
County colours:	Green and Gold
Ground(s):	FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney Austin Stack Park, Tralee
Dominant sport:	Gaelic football
Competitions
NFL:	Division 1
NHL:	Division 2
Football Championship:	Sam Maguire Cup
Hurling Championship:	Christy Ring Cup
Ladies' Gaelic football:	Brendan Martin Cup
Camogie:	Do not compete at adult level
Standard kit

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 are 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 2011, Kerry has contested 56 All-Ireland finals, the next highest participator being Dublin with 36 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 and its manager (Mick O'Dwyer) 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. 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 15 All-Ireland finals from 1997 to 2011, Kerry have contested 10 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

• Bainisteóir: Mike Carrig (Ballsack utd)
• Roghnóirís: Ger Foley (Austin Stacks), Diarmuid Murphy (An Daingean)
• Traenálaí: Alan O'Sullivan Kerins O'Rahilly's, Pat Flanagan

No. Player Position Club 1 Brendan Kealy Goalkeeper Kilcummin 2 Marc Ó Sé Right Corner Back An Ghaeltacht 3 Tommy Griffin Full Back An Daingean 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 Bryan Sheehan Midfield St. Mary's 9 Jim Housden Midfield England.....JIM is bent 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 Kieran O'Leary Left Corner Forward Dr. Crokes 16 Tomás Mac an tSaoir Goalkeeper An Ghaeltacht 17 Daniel Bohane Midfield Austin Stacks 18 Pádraig Reidy Right Half Forward Scartaglin 19 Paul Galvin Right Half Forward Finuge

No. Player Position Club 20 Anthony Maher Right Half Forward Duagh 21 Adrian O'Connell Midfield St. Michael's/Foilmore 22 Micheál Quirke Midfield Kerins O'Rahilly's 23 Barry John Keane Right Corner Back Kerins O'Rahilly's 24 Niall O'Mahony Left Half Forward Spa 25 Pat Corridan Left Corner Forward Finuge 26 David Moran Centre Forward Kerins O'Rahilly's 27 Daithí Casey Centre Forward Dr. Crokes 28 Eoin Brosnan Centre Back Dr. Crokes 29 Shane Enright Right Corner Back Tarbert GAA 30 Brian MacGuire Right Corner Back Listowel Emmets 31 Aidan O'Mahony Centre Back Rathmore 32 David Geaney Left Corner Back An Daingean 33 Paul Geaney Right Corner Back An Daingean 34 Gary O'Driscoll Right Half Forward Skellig Rangers 35 Paudge O'Connor Left Corner Back Legion 36 Johnny Buckley Midfield Dr. Crokes 37 Jonathan Lyne Centre Back Legion 38 James O'Donoghue Right Half Forward Legion 39 Peter Crowley Left Corner Back Laune Rangers 40 Gary Sayers Right Half Forward Keel 41 James Walsh Centre Back Knocknagoshel

Squad as per Kerry vs Cork (Munster Semi Final 2010) and Kerry's 2011 National League Campaign

Honours

For more details on this topic, see here

Former Footballers

For more details on this topic see: List of Kerry footballers and hurlers

Player records

Texaco Footballer of the Year winners

• Seán Murphy 1959
• Mick O'Connell 1962
• Mick O'Dwyer 1969
• Tom Prendergast 1979
• John O'Keeffe 1975
• Pat Spillane 1978
• Mikey Sheehy 1979
• Jack O'Shea 1980
• Jack O'Shea 1981
• Jack O'Shea 1984
• Jack O'Shea 1985
• Pat Spillane 1986
• Maurice Fitzgerald 1997
• Seamus Moynihan 2000
• Colm Cooper 2004
• Kieran Donaghy 2006
• Marc Ó Sé 2007
• Paul Galvin 2009

Managerial history

This is a list of people who have coached/managed the Kerry senior football team in recent years.

Name	Club	From	To	All-Ireland titles	Munster titles
Jack O'Connor	Piarsaigh Na Dromada	2009	2007	2009	2007, 2009
Pat O'Shea	Dr.Crokes	2009	2007	2009	2007, 2009

Championship record

See Kerry's Senior Football Championship Record and List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals

Team of the Millennium

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

• Dan O'Keefe (goalkeeper)
• Joe Keohane (full-back)
• Seán Murphy (right half-back)
• Mick O'Connell (midfielder)
• Pat Spillane (left half-forward)
• Mikey Sheehy (right corner-forward)

Notable player

• Tadhg Kennelly (current AFL player with the Sydney Swans)

Winners of eight All-Ireland senior medals

• Pat Spillane
• Mikey Sheehy
• Páidí Ó Sé
• Ogie Moran
• Ger Power

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

• All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships: 10
  • 1964, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2008

• All-Ireland Minor Football Championships: 11
  • 1931, 1932, 1933, 1946, 1950, 1962, 1963, 1975, 1980, 1988, 1994

• All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: 14
  • 1913, 1915, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1963, 1967, 1983, 1991, 1994 , 2006

• All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championships: 9
  • 1973, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997

• All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championships: 11
  • 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993

• National Football Leagues: 19
  • 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2009

• National Football Leagues Div 2: 1
  • 2002

• Munster Senior Football Championships: 74
  • 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, 2011

• Munster Under-21 Football Championships: 25
  • 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2008

• 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

• McGrath Cup: 3
  • 1996, 2010, 2011

• 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: 123 -

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

2010: Colm Cooper

Ladies' Football

Honours

• All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championships: 11
  • 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993

• All-Ireland Under-18 Ladies' Football Championship: 3
  • 1980, 1981, 1995

• All-Ireland Under-16 Ladies' Football Championship: 1
  • 1999

• All-Ireland Under-14 Ladies' Football Championship: 5
  • 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2008

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 a 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 to 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. They have 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. They have 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

• Manager: John Meyler
• Selectors: John Hennessy (Ballyduff), Seanie O’Shea (Dr Crokes)
• Trainer: Joe O’Connor

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 Glen Rovers 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)

Honours

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships: 1
  • 1891

• All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championships 3
  • 1976, 1983, 1986

• Christy Ring Cups 1
  • 2011

• All Under 21 B Championships: 5
  • 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011

• All Ireland Minor B Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1997, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2009

• All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championships: 2
  • 1961, 1972

• National Hurling Leagues Div2:

2001

• Munster Senior Hurling Championships: 1
  • 1891

• Munster Junior Hurling Championships: 1
  • 1956

• Munster Intermediate Hurling Championships:2
  • 1970,1973

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

Notable Hurlers

• Michael ‘Boxer’ Slattery
• Shane Brick
• Penis Molone
• Brendan O’Sullivan
• John Mike Dooley
• John Healy
• John Mahony
• Tom Collins
• Maurice Leahy
• Christy Walsh

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,” Donegal, Kerry, Mayo and Monaghan are to get a total of 14 new clubs by 2015.

Stadia

• FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney - home venue for the Senior football team
• Austin Stack Park, Tralee

Club Titles

• Kerry Senior Football Championship
• Kerry Senior Hurling Championship
• Kerry Intermediate Football Championship
• Kerry Intermediate Hurling Championship
• Kerry Junior Football Championship
• Kerry Junior Hurling Championship
• Kerry Novice Football Championship
• Kerry Minor Football Championship
• Kerry Minor Hurling Championship
• Kerry Under-21 Football Championship
• Kerry U21 Hurling Championship
• Kerry County Football League - Division 1

See also

List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals

External links

• Vintage Kerry GAA Jerseys from Retro GAA
• 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