Brilliant comeback from Listry

LISTRY staged a tremendous fightback in the final quarter to come from six points down to edge out Castlegregory in an exciting curtain-raiser in Austin Stack Park on Sunday last.

With Alan Fitzgerald pulling the strings at midfield Castlegregory had taken the game to the favourites and were well worth their 2-8 to 0-5 interval lead. Their forward play was very impressive with Brandon Hoare and Anton Kelliher causing lots of problems for the opposition, but Listry received a boost soon after the restart when Joe Clifford capitalised on a defensive mistake to slam a loose ball to the net.

Whether by design or not, Castlegregory were playing a lot more conservatively than was the case in the opening period but still they held a six points gap until Joe Clifford made the most from another defensive mishap to boot home a second goal with ten to go.

There were still two points between the sides, but Listry now had the scent of victory and good scores from Ronan Buckley and Gary O’Sullivan levelled it before Buckley coolly sent over a ‘45 in the final minute of normal time to clinch victory on a score of 2-12 to 2-11.

County Chairman Tim Murphy presented the Con Brosnan Cup to winning captain Jimmy O’Leary and Neilly Shanahan presented the Castleisland Mart Man of the Match to Listry’s Joe Clifford.

Convention

THE annual convention of Kerry GAA will be held on December 11.

Motion and nomination papers have been sent to Clubs as per rule. Five officer positions will become vacant at Convention due to the 5-Year Rule – Munster Council Delegate (2), Hurling Officer, PRO and Cultural Officer while Paudie Dineen (Assistant Treasurer) and Stephen O’Sullivan (Assistant Secretary) have indicated that they are vacating those positions.

Nominations and Motions have to be returned no later than 5pm on Friday November 10. All those nominated will have until 5pm Monday, November 13 to confirm if they wish to contest positions.

Motions regarding Competitions will be dealt with at the November 20 Meeting of County Committee.