Author: Kerry Ladies Football PRO

Plenty Of Kerry Representation For HEC Finals Weekend.

It’s finals weekend for the HEC Third level colleges competition and Kerry will be well represented with a number of players taking part in the various competition’s which will start in Mayo on Friday.

The blue ribbon event is of course the O’Connor Cup and there are a number of players involved with Southern Gaels Anna Galvin the captain of UL where she will be joined by Laura Rogers of Austin Stacks, Ayesha Roche of Na Gaeil, Leah Henry of Listowel Emmetts and Laoise Coughlan of Rathmore.

UL will face high flying DCU in the semi final.

UCC are also in the O’Connor cup semi final and Kerry is represented by rising star Sarah Murphy of Rathmore and Eilis O Leary of Kilcummin while former Kerry goalkeeper Tomás Mac An TSaoir is a selector. UCC will face the defending champions UCD in the semi final who incidentally were captained to the title by Corca Dhuibhne’s Ciara Murphy last year.https://www.kerryladiesfootball.com/kerry-ladies-impress-in-massive-colleges-weekend-at-it-tralee/

Elsewhere Dingle’s Deirdre Geaney will line out for DCU 2 in the Giles Cup while Siobhan Goodwin of Castlegregory, Micaela O’Connor of Spa, Cliona Coffey of Beaufort and Christine Cooper of Dr Crokes will represent Mary Immaculate College in the same competition, with Cliondha Hayes of John Mitchels lining out for Trinity College.

Áine Cahillane of Chorca Dhuibhne, Aoife Ní Mhuircheartaigh of Dingle and Ciara Anderson of Causeway represent The Royal College of Surgeons in the Donaghy Cup, with Nicola Horan of Kerins O Rahillys, Eilís O’Connor of  Na Gaeil .

In the Lynch Cup UCD 2 will be represented by Clodagh Quinlan of Inbhear Sceine Gaels while Aileen Sheehan of Rathmore and Louise Horgan of Clounmacon will represent WIT.

The very best of luck to all the girls taking part.

 

All Rhyno Quality Feeds Senior League Games Are Off.

The 4 games which were due to take place today in the Senior Ladies Rhyno Quality Feeds County Leagues have now also been postponed due to the adverse weather conditions.

This means that there will be no action on today.
All of the postponed Round 1 games will take place on next Sunday 12th March instead and teams will have to line out without their minor and senior intercounty players.
The fixtures that were due to take place this morning but have been postponed are;

Division 1

Beaufort v Inbhear Sceine Gaels

Division 2

John Mitchels v Kilcummin

Scartaglin v Corca Dhuibhne

Na Gaeil v Dr Crokes

Weather Plays Havoc on Rhyno Quality Feeds Senior League.

The adverse weather conditions has led to the cancellation of a number of Rhyno Quality Feeds Senior League fixtures tomorrow.

As of now only the following  games are going ahead ;

Division 1

Beaufort v Inbhear Sceine Gaels @11oc in Beaufort.

Division 2

John Mitchels v Kilcummin @11.30 in John Mitchels

Scartaglin v Corca Dhuibhne @11.30 in Cordal

Na Gaeil v Dr Crokes @2oc in Dr Crokes

 

 

Final Reminder For Minor Academy

For those girls previously invited or who have expressed an interest via email:

The Minor academy will take place in Ballyrickard, Tralee on Saturday 4th March – players ready on field for 11am sharp.

Please bring mouth-guard, water and €2.

Please note this is a FINAL reminder re the Minor Academy, if players do not attend this week, they will be put on a waiting list.

Kerry Name Their Team For Monaghan Challenge.

Kerry senior ladies manager Graham Shine has made two changes to the line up for the visit of Monaghan to Listowel for Round 4 of the Lidl National football league Division 1 which takes place on Sunday at 12 noon.

Elaine O’Sullivan of Southern Gaels returns to goals at the expense of Erris O’Carroll whle Emma Sherwood of Firies comes back into the team at full forward, with Megan O’Connell dropping to the bench.

Kerry defeated Monaghan by 11 points in the corresponding fixture last year, however Monaghan hammered Kerry by 16 points in the All Ireland quarter final last August.

Both Monaghan and Kerry have 3 points from their first 3 games so a win for either side would be a huge boost in their bid to avoid a relegation struggle .

With players of the calibre of Ciara McAnespie, Cora Courtney and Caoimhe Mohan to call upon they will be difficult to beat but Kerry can take great encouragement from their second half performance against Donegal last Sunday.

Throw in on Sunday is at 12 noon in Listowel.

 

The Kerry team in full is;

1 Elaine O Sullivan SOUTHERN GAELS

2 EILIS LYNCH CASTLEISLAND DESMONDS

3 CAROLINE KELLY SOUTHERN GAELS  

4 AISLINN DESMOND RATHMORE 

5 SARAH MURPHY RATHMORE 

6 ANNA GALVIN SOUTHERN GAELS 

7 CIARA MURPHY FOXROCK/CABINTEELY

8 LORRAINE SCANLON CASTLEISLAND DESMONDS

9 AMANDA BROSNAN DR CROKES

10 LAURA ROGERS AUSTIN STACKS 

11 LOUISE NI MHUIRCHEARTAIGH CORCA DHUIBHNE 

12 DENISE HALLISSEY INBHEAR SCEINE GAELS 

13 SARAH HOULIHAN BEAUFORT

14 EMMA SHERWOOD FIRIES

15 MIRIAM O’KEEFFE FINUGE/ST SENANS

SUBS

16 LINDA BRUGGENER SPA

17 MEGAN O CONNELL SOUTHERN GAELS 

18 PATRICE DENNEHY BEAUFORT

19 RHEANNE O SHEA DR.CROKES 

20 ERIN FINUCANE CLOUNMACON

21 EILISH O LEARY KILCUMMIN

22 NIAMH CARMODY FINUGE/ST SENANS

23 ERISS O’CARROLL JOHN MITCHELS

24 LAURA COLLINS ABBEYDORNEY 

25  AISLING O CONNELL SCARTAGLEN 

26  ANDREA MURPHY CASTLEISLAND DESMONDS

27 MEGAN O’CONNOR BEALE

28  Elish Kavanagh CORCA DHUIBHNE

It’s Kerry v Monaghan In Listowel at 12 On Sunday.

Previewing Kerry v Monaghan games come with a strict health warning. Which Monaghan team will turn up? Will it be the team that Kerry hammered by 11 points in last years league encounter or will it be the Monaghan team that humbled Kerry by 16 points in the All Ireland quarter final in August> The answer probably lies somewhere in between.

For that matter what can we expect from Kerry ? Hopefully something akin to last Sunday’s second half performance against Donegal in which Kerry took the game by the scruff of the neck and dug deep to record a deserved win. That win gained Kerry 3 valuable league points and drew them level in the league table with 4 other teams including Monaghan.

Monaghan lost to Galway by 6 points last Sunday so will be iching to get three more league points on the board when they take on the Kerry girls. With players of the calibre of Ciara McAnespie, Cora Courtney, Caoimhe Mohan and Ellen McCarron to call upon they will be difficult to beat. Kerry are improving though and will be determined to halt the Monaghan gallop.

It is probable that Emma Sherwood and Elaine O’Sullivan (goalkeeper) will be available for the Kingdom having missed the Donegal game, with Sherwood likely to go back into the centre half back position and O’Sullivan into goals.

The form of Louise Ni Mhuircheartaigh , Anna Galvin, Lorraine Scanlon and Amanda Brosnan has been excellent in the league so far and manager Graham Shine will be hoping the Caroline Kelly, Aislinn Desmond , Sarah Houlihan, Denise Hallissey, Eilis Lynch and Laura Rogers will continue to show the improvement shown in the last game.

While it is a very difficult match to call, home venue could swing it once again for Kerry in Listowel on Sunday at 12 noon.

 

Important Notice

Important Notice ;
For those players already invited or those that have emailed their interest in participating:

The KLGFA Minor academy will commence tomorrow evening Friday 24th February from 5.30-7pm.

Friday night for this week only -will revert to weekend mornings.

Venue: Tralee CBS Astroturf.

Please bring water, mouth-guards and €2.