The Kerryman (South Kerry Edition)
O’shea’s minors shine in the September sun
Seanie O’Shea’s Kerry minor hurling side were the cream of the crop in September.
They quite simply stormed to the All Ireland minor B title defeating Roscommon in the September sun in the Gaelic Grounds. They had a very difficult Munster campaign earlier in the summer, but playing at their own level they showed their true worth.
The half-back line of David Goulding, Dougie Fitzell and Tommy Casey were in fine form and proved largely unpassable. Rickey Heffernan was the star of the show, however, starring for the Kingdom on the half-forward line in the first half and in the fullforward line in the second.
After twenty minutes the scoreline read 2-4 to 0-3. At half-time it was 2-8 to 0-4. At fulltme the scoreline read 4-17 to 1-7 with Paul McGrath, Cian Hussey and Brendan O’Leary all starring.
O’Leary was very harshly sent off in the second half. That really was the only blot on Kerry’s copybook on the afternoon. It was a great win for Kerry and a delighted manager extolled virtues of the completion.
“The one thing I wouldn't say about this competition is to put it down,” O'Shea ( pictured) noted. “There's very good quality teams in it believe it or not. We had to work so hard against Meath and Kildare. These are serious teams. I don't care where they're coming from all you had to do was see the quality we played today and still we just had that bit of luck those two days and got out the gate in those two games. It's a very good competition.
“Tipperary just prove the point. They're in the A final tomorrow and we were drawn against them so it [playing in Munster compeititon] is not benefitting us.
“As I said and I hate repeating myself, the Under 14s, the Under 16s and the seniors and the Under 21s don't play A so it makes no sense to play us in the main competition.”