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Irish Independent
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Listry dig out extra-time win over Glenflesk in East Kerry minor league division 2 final
Listry 2-21 Glenflesk 1-19 After a thrilling 70 minutes of football, Listry climbed the victory in the East Kerry Minor League Division 2 final with a strong first period of extra-time crucial to the win. After Listry saw an early goal by Tom O'Dowd ruled out for a square ball, Glenflesk got the opening goal of the game with a terrific finish from captain John O'Sullivan. Listry fought back well from this setback, with a run of seven points in a row, with James Clifford and Killian Fitzgerald doing the damage, with a two-pointer from Clifford the pick of the scores. Two late James Kelly points kept Glenflesk within two points at the break, despite being well outplayed. Glenflesk started the second half well, with points from John O'Sullivan and Dylan Bowler. Clifford then goaled for Listry, with Sean Clifford providing the assist. Back came Glenflesk with four more points, with Bowler getting the last as they went ahead again. Listry again responded well, and a Ryan Carey score put them two points up as injury time approached. Glenflesk created one more opportunity. James Kelly was the one to take on the shot, firing over with his left foot from behind the arc to send the game to extra-time. After having victory stolen away from them, Listry got on with the business of winning the game again. Killian O'Donoghue's early goal was followed by a pair of '45's from Fitzgerald. Listry had earned a nine-point lead by half time. Despite Glenflesk's brave efforts to come back, which included another Kelly two-pointer, Listry had done enough to secure the win. Elsewhere in the Division 3A final, four goals for Firies proved crucial in their 4-14 to 0-13 win over Beaufort. In the Division 3B final in Currow the home side beat Gneevegulla by 3-14 to 2-13 where two late goals helped Currow to a four-point win.
Irish Independent
27-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Kerry manager Mark Bourke relieved after ‘topsy-turvy' win over Cork, as Emma Costello re-joins squad
Emma Costello, a 2023 All Star nominee who took time out in 2024, has re-joined the Kerry panel, with manager Mark Bourke describing the Firies woman as 'a Rolls Royce of a player' Kerryman Today at 05:50 Mark Bourke might have donned Arthur Daley's best sheepskin coat and trilby at half time and puffed on a Cuban cigar before strolling into the dressing room and declaring - 'easy, innit?' He didn't of course. The Na Gaeil man is the polar opposite to the George Cole car salesman character in the old TV series Mindar (older readers will remember), but he would have been forgiven if he had done so as throughout the first half of the Munster LGFA SFC round one game in Cloughduv, Kerry played the type of football that Bourke wants them to. And had run up a handsome 11-point lead at the interval.
