South Kerry 0-12
Kenmare District 0-11
A LAST GASP winner from by Bryan Sheenhan was enough to send South Kerry into their first county final in six years at the expense of Kenmare District.
It capped a solid individual performance from Sheehan whose four first half frees helped his side into a 0-5 to 0-4 lead at the break.
Declan O’Sullivan was sent off late on for South Kerry but, with his side trailing by two points with as many minutes to play, Sheenhan stepped up to the plate, knocking over two of their last three scores, Denis Daly with the other.
South Kerry will now play Legion in the decider on 8 November.
Elsewhere, there were wins for Emmet Og (Longford), Rathnew (Wicklow) and Portlaoise (Laois) in the opening round of the Leinster senior football championship while St Mary’s are the Sligo champions following a 1-20 to 2-11 win over Curry in Markievicz Park.
Leinster club SFC first round
Emmet Og, Killoe (Longford) 5-11 St James (Wexford) 1-4
Rathnew (Wicklow) 0-12 Edenderry (Offaly) 0-11
Portlaoise (Laois) 0-15 Palatine (Carlow) 1-8
Some performance from Portlaoise having played a county final last night and turning out again today.Fair play.
Can someone explain to me what’s the story with the Kerry club championship, do loads of clubs play under one banner or what’s the story?
How many more people are going to ask that question? Surely people must get it at this stage
I asked the same thing a few weeks ago pretty much there’s a club championship between senior clubs and then another championship that is kinda the real deal there are “combos” aka south kerry West kerry etc which include all intermediate and junior teams from there!if a “combo” club win the championship then the senior club who won the first championship represent kerry in munster!from an outsider point of view it kinda seems strange but feckit who am I to comment on how kerry work there championship it works for them!!!I read galvins book recently was interesting he never spoke of any in fighting between combos!as a tipp man I know there’s a near sell out crowd when a good combo team play each other in intermediate theres generally a lot of frustration taken out during the game and timber flysheet
There are 9 divisional teams and 11 club teams in the championship.
Divisional teams are the best players from smaller clubs in that area.
The club teams can get relegated. Divisional teams cannot.
If a divisional team wins the championship then the club senior champions go on to represent kerry in the club series.
Kerry’s captain is chosen by the team who win the championship usually their player on the team.
If people got it surely they wudnt ask