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Kerry's most notable hurling achievement in recent times occurred in the 1993 Munster championship when John Meyler's Kerry team shocked [[Waterford GAA|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 their most famous ever League victory, a win over newly crowned All-Ireland champions Clare.
Kerry's most notable hurling achievement in recent times occurred in the 1993 Munster championship when John Meyler's Kerry team shocked [[Waterford GAA|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 their most famous ever League victory, a win over newly crowned All-Ireland champions Clare.


2003 was the most recent progress when the team made it to the 4th round of the qualifiers only to go down to [[Limerick GAA|Limerick]] 1-14 tp 0-24 in [[Austin Stack Park]] in [[Tralee]]. Along the way the beat [[Westmeath GAA|Westmeath]], [[Carlow GAA|Carlow]] and beaten [[Ulster GAA|Ulster]] finalists [[Derry GAA|Derry]]. The wins over [[Westmeath GAA|Westmeath]] and [[Carlow GAA|Carlow]] was the first time a Kerry team won 2 Championship games in a row.
2003 was the most recent progress when the team made it to the 4th round of the qualifiers only to go down to [[Limerick GAA|Limerick]] 1-14 tp 0-24 in [[Austin Stack Park]] in [[Tralee]]. Along the way the beat [[Westmeath GAA|Westmeath]], [[Carlow GAA|Carlow]] and beaten [[Ulster GAA|Ulster]] finalists [[Derry GAA|Derry]]. The wins over [[Westmeath GAA|Westmeath]] and [[Carlow GAA|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.


===Kerry Hurling Squad===
===Kerry Hurling Squad===

Revision as of 21:21, 7 June 2009

For more details of Kerry GAA see Kerry Senior Football Championship or Kerry Senior Club Hurling Championship.
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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 3A
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 are the most successful team in the history of Gaelic football. They have won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship on 35 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. Kerry has played in more All-Ireland finals than any other team - 56 in all. They have won more than half of them, which is another record.[1]

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 [2] [3] [4] and its manager (Mick O'Dwyer) the greatest of all time.[5] [2] [6] 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 last 11 All-Irelands, Kerry have contested 7 and won 5. Kerry became the first team since Cork to win back to back All Irelands in the 2007 championship by demolishing their Munster rivals by a scoreline of 3-13 to 1-09.[7] They have now won four of the nine All-Irelands played so far in the 2000s. Kerry played in their 5th All-Ireland Final in a row on 21 September 2008 after beating Cork in a semi-final replay. [8] However, they lost to Tyrone.

Kerry Football Squad

This is the Kerry squad for the 2008 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final as well as players that have played in the 2009 National Football League.

Number Player Club Position
1 Diarmuid Murphy Dingle Goalkeeper
2 Marc Ó Sé An Ghaeltacht Right Full Back
3 Tom O'Sullivan Rathmore Full Back
4 Pádraig Reidy Scartaglin Left Full Back
5 Tomás Ó Sé An Ghaeltacht Right Wing Back
6 Aidan O'Mahony Rathmore Centre Back
7 Killian Young Renard Left Wing Back
8 Darragh Ó Sé An Ghaeltacht Midfield
9 Séamus Scanlon Currow Midfield
10 Bryan Sheehan St. Mary's Right Wing Forward
11 Declan O'Sullivan Dromid Pearses Centre Forward
12 Eoin Brosnan Dr. Crokes Left Wing Forward
13 Colm Cooper Dr. Crokes Right Corner Forward
14 Kieran Donaghy Austin Stacks Full Forward
15 Tommy Walsh Kerins O'Rahilly's Left Corner Forward
S Darren O'Sullivan Glenbeigh-Glencar Left Corner Forward
S Tommy Griffin Dingle Midfield
S Paul Galvin Finuge Left Wing Forward
S David Moran Kerins O'Rahilly's Right Wing Forward
N Kieran Cremin Dr. Crokes Goalkeeper
N Seán O'Sullivan Cromane Right Wing Forward
N Micheál Quirke Kerins O'Rahilly's Midfield
N Donnacha Walsh Cromane Midfield
N Daniel Bohane Austin Stacks Right Corner Back
N Mike Frank Russell Laune Rangers Left Corner Forward
N Rónán Ó Flatharta An Ghaeltacht Left Wing Back
N Paul O'Connor Kenmare Left Corner Forward
N Kieran O'Leary Dr. Crokes Right Corner Foward
N Anthony Maher Duagh Midfield
N Tadhg Kennelly Listowel Emmets Midfield
N Ger Reidy Castleisland Desmonds Goalkeeper
N Pat Corridan Finuge Full Back
M Jack O'Connor Dromid Pearses New Manager
M Pat O'Shea Dr. Crokes Manager during the 2008 final
Se Ger O’Keeffe Austin Stacks Selector
Se Éamonn Fitzmaurice Finuge Selector
Tr Alan O'Sullivan Kenmare Trainer
Se Pat Flanagan Trainer
  • S= Came on as a substitute during the 2008 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
  • N= Did not play in the 2008 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
  • M= Manager, Pat O'Shea resigned as manager after the 2008 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final and Jack O'Connor took over.
  • SE= Selector
  • Tr= Trainer

Team of the Millennium

The following Kerry players were among the fifteen selected for the Football Team of the Millennium;[9]

Winners of eight All-Ireland senior medals

Honours

  • All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 35
    • 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
  • 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: 72
    • 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
  • Munster Minor Football Championships: 40
    • 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
  • Munster Junior Football Championships: 38
    • 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
  • 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).

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 have played in just one Munster Minor Hurling Championship Final, in 1938, when they lost to a Cork team that included the great Christy Ring.

Kerry have never won the Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship, there 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

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 their most famous ever League victory, a win over newly crowned All-Ireland champions Clare.

2003 was the most recent progress when the 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.

Kerry Hurling Squad

Christy Ring Cup Quarter Final 2008

Number Player Local Club
1 John Healy Ballyheigue
2 Padraig O Garady Ballyduff
3 Aidan Healy Abbeydorney
4 John Fitzgerald Causeway
5 Aidan Cronin St Finbarr's
6 James McCarthy Kilmoyley
7 Mike Quilter Lixnaw
8 John Mulchinock Buttevant (Cork)
9 John Griffin (Capt) Lixnaw
10 Billy Brick Kilmoyley
11 Liam Boyle Ballyduff
12 James O Brien Bruree (Limerick)
13 Mikey Boyle Ballyduff
14 Michael Conway Lixnaw
15 John Egan St Brendan's
Substitutes
16 Seán Young Kilmoyley
17 Gary O Brian Ballyduff
8 Colin Harris Kilmoyley
19 James Godley Kilmoyley
20 Brian O Donovan Abbeydorney
21 Seamus Cremin Kilgarvan
22 Alan Dineen St Brendan's
23 Keth Harrington Kilgarvan
24 Tom Cronin Crotta O'Neill's
25 Jason Casey Ballyheigue
26 Breandan Flaherty St Brendan's
27 John Mike Dooley Causeway
28 Eoin Sheehy Kilmoyley
Management Team
Mossie Carroll
DJ Leahy (selector) Causeway
Michael Casey (selector) St Brendan's

Honours

  • All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championships2
    • 1983, 1986

B 2001, 2002, 2006

2001

Stadia

Club Titles

See also

List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals

References

  1. ^ Kerry GAA Online
  2. ^ a b GAA: Micko's still the best in my book SAYS ARMAGH'S KERNAN | Sunday Mirror | Find Articles at BNET
  3. ^ The Kingdom - 2005/12/15: Tears flow freely in Listowel on the day they buried a real giant
  4. ^ Irish Examiner - 2005/09/24: Better late than never
  5. ^ Last hurrah looms for football's most remarkable man - Gaelic Football, Sport - Independent.ie
  6. ^ Irish News UK - News from the Irish Community in Britain
  7. ^ Shane Murray (16 September 2007). "Kerry 3-13 Cork 1-9". RTÉ Sport. Retrieved 2008-04-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2008/0831/cork_kerry.html?gaa
  9. ^ http://www.gaa.ie/page/football_team_of_the_millennium.html GAA website
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