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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.
[edit] Football
[edit] 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 18 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 - 55 in all as of 16 September 2007. 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 one of the greatest of all time 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, between1986 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. Some have spoken of teams like Armagh and Tyrone, who have both beaten Kerry in recent finals, as successors to Kerry's reign. However, Kerry have come back time and again and have won the last two championships, in 2006 and 2007. Kerry beat Armagh comprehensively in the 2006 championship; however they have not met Tyrone in the championship since 2005. 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.[1] They have now won half of the All Irelands played in the last decade.
[edit] Kerry Football Squad
[edit] Notable individuals
[edit] 8 time Senior All-Ireland winners
[edit] 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
- 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
- National Football Leagues: 18
- 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2006
- 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 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: 39
- 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
- Munster Junior Football Championships: 37
- 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
- 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
onsisted entirely of Kerry players).
[edit] Ladies' Football
[edit] Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championships: 11
- 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993
- All-Ireland Minor Ladies' Football Championship: 3
[edit] 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.
Kerry's most notable hurling achievement in recent times occurred in the 1993 Munster championship when John Meyler's Kerry team shocked Waterford GAA 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.
[edit] Kerry Hurling Squad
| Number |
Player |
Position |
Local Club |
| 1 |
John Healy |
Ballyheigue |
| 2 |
John Fitzgerald |
Causeway |
| 3 |
Micheal Lucid |
Ballyheigue |
| 4 |
David Slattery |
Ballyduff |
| 5 |
Kieran O'Sullivan |
Ballyheigue |
| 6 |
Mike Quilter |
Lixnaw |
| 7 |
Andrew Keane |
Crotta |
| 8 |
Aidan Healy |
Abbeydorney |
| 9 |
Paudie Lyons |
St. Brendans |
| 10 |
John Egan |
Ballyduff |
| 11 |
Aidan Boyle |
Ballyduff |
| 12 |
Darren Dineen |
St. Brendans |
| 13 |
Mikey Boyle |
Ballyduff |
| 14 |
Stephen 'Hogan' Dennehy |
Lixnaw |
| 15 |
John Mike Dooley |
Causeway |
| Substitutes |
| 16 |
Giles O'Grady |
Ballyduff |
| 17 |
Nicholas O'Sullivan |
St. Brendans |
| 18 |
Kieran Hanafin |
Abbeydorney |
| 19 |
Michael Hanafin |
Abbeydorney |
| 20 |
Pa Quill |
Crotta O'Neills |
| 21 |
Greg Fealy |
Abbeydorney |
| 22 |
Seamus Cremin |
Kilgarvan |
| 23 |
Ivan McCarthy |
St.Brendans |
| 24 |
Denis Moriarty |
St. Brendans |
| 25 |
Paul McCarthy |
Kilmoyley |
| 26 |
Colin Harris |
Kilmoyley |
| 27 |
Patrick Dowling |
Lixnaw |
| 28 |
Sean Wallace |
Lixnaw |
| 29 |
Brian O'Donovan |
Abbeydorney |
| 30 |
Killian Fitzmaurice |
Lixnaw |
| 31 |
Sean Maunsell |
Kilmoyley |
| 32 |
Liam Boyle |
Ballyduff |
| 33 |
Mike Conway |
Lixnaw |
| Management Team |
|
Maurice Leahy |
Manager |
Causeway |
|
Mike Hennessy |
Selector |
Ballyduff |
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Mike Casey |
Selector |
St. Brendans |
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John O'Keeffe |
Trainer |
Austin Stacks |
|
Ger Power |
Trainer |
Austin Stacks |
[edit] Honours
B 2006
[edit] Stadia
[edit] Club Titles
[edit] See also
List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals
[edit] External links
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