Kerry Minors
Congratulations to Peter Keane and his team on winning 3-in a row All Ireland Minor Championships. Tommy Markham Cup is heading back to Kerry. Great young talent in Kerry and no doubt some will wear the senior Jersey. Dara Moynihan has been compared to some inspiring past and present Kerry Senior players but he’s a breath of fresh air. A player in his own right. His lightening speed, tenacious work rate and he must have covered every blade of grass in Croke Park last Sunday twice over. He’s unselfish with possession and his vision to place a ball to his fellow forwards to score is just top class. Proud moment for all his family, friends and every Kerry person around the world when he received Player of the Game. Very gracious in his speech and not shy to thank everyone and humbly acknowledge his fellow team mates with great praise. Very few can say they won 2 All Ireland medals in 5 months and well deserved. This is just the beginning of great things to come.
Back to reality next weekend for Dara in the Minor Championship County final with East Kerry along with some of the All Ireland winning team.
U-16 Boys
Spa played a very strong Firies team at home last Monday night at home in the East Kerry Div 2 quarter final. The boys in blue ran into an early 12 point commanding lead mainly with 3 well taken goals by Sean Cahill. However Firies fought back bravely to whittle the lead down to 7 points at half time. On the resumption Firies attacked relentlessly reducing the deficit to 2 points. The brilliant Alan Kelly in goals pulled off an incredible save from a penalty, but was very unfortunate to have the rebound finished to the net. However the industrious Ruairi O’Keeffe and ever athletic Gary Vaughan then took command in the half back line thwarting attack after attack. Evan Jones showed his class at half forward and created several fantastic scores for those around him. Ian O’Connell in at full forward was also winning some great ball inside setting up the runners coming in off his shoulder giving the Spa the vital scores whereby they ran out 4 point victors. Spa play Dr Crokes away in the semi final.