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Our team did us proud throughout
the championship in bringing us to Croke Park to challenge for our 33rd
title. Sunday 22nd was not our
day however… but we will be back there again - sooner rather than later! Lets not forget the year
that was and the many memorable moments that we have from 2002. We thank the players, management and all involved for their
unbelievable effort and enormous commitment over the past year.
CIARRAÍ ABÚ !! 33 in 2003 !! |
=== MATCH STATS AND NEWS
REPORTS ===
Sunday 22nd September 2002
Croke Park, Dublin
Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final 2002
Kerry 0-14 .v. Armagh 1-12
3.30 pm
Referee:
John Bannon (Longford)
SCORERS
Armagh:
O McConville 1-2 (1f, 1 '45), S McDonnell, D Marsden, R Clarke 0-3 each, J McEntee
0-1
Kerry:
D Ó Cinnéide 0-5 (3f, 1 '45), MF Russell 0-3, L Hassett, C Cooper 0-2, E
Brosnan, E Fitzmaurice 0-1 each
KERRY
D
O'Keeffe; M Ó Sé, S Moynihan, M McCarthy; T Ó Sé, E Fitzmaurice, J Sheehan; D Ó
Sé, D Daly; S O'Sullivan, E Brosnan, L Hassett; MF Russell, D Ó Cinnéide, C
Cooper.
Subs:
A MacGearailt for O'Sullivan (48), T O'Sullivan for M Ó Sé (57), J Crowley for
Hassett (63), B O'Shea for Daly (72).
Booked:
T Ó Sé (55), L Hassett (62).
ARMAGH
B
Tierney; E McNulty, J McNulty, F Bellew; A O'Rourke, K McGeeney, A McCann; J
Toal, P McGrane; P McKeever, J McEntee, O McConville; S McDonnell, R Clarke, D
Marsden.
Subs:
B O'Hagan for J McEntee (24), T McEntee for McKeever (44).
Booked:
E McNulty (30), A O'Rourke (37), P McGrane (47).
Attendance:
79,500
NEWSPAPERS
AFTER ARMAGH, IS THERE
ANOTHER SEPTEMBER IN ME?
By
Páidi Ó Sé
THIS is always easier from the other side, the happy side. It's easy to
document your thoughts on the season, your journey, when Sam is winking at you
from the corner of the bar. The strange thing is, last Sunday's All-Ireland
final had the happy ending for most. For me, only victory could really bring
closure on a turbulent, emotional year the loss of a brother, Darragh's sending
off controversy. However, I am well aware that Armagh's success may bring
closure to generations of emotional and turbulent years for the long-suffering
people of that county.
FOR MORE - VISIT
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=95&si=833819&issue_id=8089
KERRY PROMISE TO RISE AGAIN
THE first Kerry team to lose a Bank of Ireland football final for 20 years
returned home last night with a promise to make amends for Sunday's defeat by
Armagh. Unlike the throbbing City West Hotel in Saggart, the weekend base for
Armagh's historic adventure, Jurys Hotel in Ballsbridge was virtually deserted
as the Kerry team checked out yesterday.
Kerry fans have spent so many All-Ireland Mondays in
celebration mode that they had difficulty coping with a defeat which looked
most improbable when their side out-scored Armagh by 0-7 to 0-2 in the closing
15 minutes of the first half. The Kerry squad were still in a state of
shock too, but sidelined their pain to pay gracious tributes to Armagh.
Trainer John O'Keeffe singled out Armagh's tackling
as one of the major influences during a second half where Kerry managed just
one point from play.
FOR MORE - VISIT
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=95&si=832036&issue_id=8073
CAPTAIN: 'WE'LL BE
BACK, WE'RE NOT FINISHED YET'
Cliona
Foley
WONDER
what real, gutwrenching, heartbreaking sporting misery smells and sounds like?
It reeks of deodorant.It is so hauntingly quiet in an All-Ireland losers'
dressing-room that the loudest sound, as it was yesterday, is usually the
repetitive hiss of aerosol cans.The noise is enough to drown out the faint,
funereal murmur of visitors and mentors whispering condolences but, alas, even
their overpowering whiff is never enough to overwhelm the stink of failure, no
matter how close the losing margin.
FOR
MORE - VISIT
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=95&si=831752&issue_id=8072
IT WAS AS IF GOD
HAD DEIGNED IT TO BE ARMAGH'S DAY
By
Jim O'Sullivan
NOBODY
could question the vital importance of Oisin McConville's 55th minute goal in
terms of inspiring a wonderful first ever All-Ireland football title for Armagh
in yesterday's Bank of Ireland championship decider in Croke Park.
However,
based on their quite astonishing improvement in a second half that was expected
to be controlled by the favourites it could be argued that the game was really
decided by what manager Joe Kernan had to say to his players during the
interval break.
FOR
MORE - VISIT
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/sport/Full_Story/did-sgu3-W59N4VVc.asp
POINT SEPARATES
GRIEF FROM GLORY, HERO FROM HEARTACHE
By
Diarmuid O'Flynn
YOU
would need a heart of stone not to be moved by the Armagh celebrations in Croke
Park yesterday, as the oh-so-precious new green sward changed colour under the
swarming orange hordes that broke down from the towering stands, sweeping aside
every effort to hold them back.
More
than a century of fruitless endeavour, this was Krakatoa, an eruption of
full-flame fiery pent-up emotions as now, finally, another football-mad county
officially joined the elite. All-Ireland winners.
One
would also have needed a heart of stone not to feel sorry for those who had
just lost that All-Ireland final, those magnificent men who had fought their
way through the proud Kingdom's hardest-ever journey to Croke Park on the
biggest day in football's calendar, only to come up short, by the most narrow,
the most cruel of margins.
FOR
MORE - VISIT
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/sport/Full_Story/did-sgY7p8gnLSCO-.asp
IT WAS PAYBACK TIME
FOR ARMAGH, SAYS PÁIDÍ
By
Diarmuid O'Flynn
HE
has known more good days than bad on All-Ireland football final day in Croke
Park, has Páidí Ó Sé. Eight wins from 10 as a player, two from two as Kerry
manager. Yesterday was a rare bad day, a day when for 35 minutes his team of
all the talents looked to have justified the hot favourite tag bestowed on them
by those normally most astute of judges, the bookies, only for it all to fall
apart.And yet, showing admirable but typical grace even in such bitter defeat,
the Kerry supremo found consolation. This was, after all, a day of history.
"Look, all I'd say tonight is that I wouldn't begrudge Armagh. I never
like losing All-Irelands, but losing to Armagh and to Joe Kernan, I suppose you
couldn't lose to a nicer team and a nicer guy.
FOR
MORE - VISIT
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/sport/Full_Story/did-sgl8K46gPvGeA.asp
KERRY KNEW ARMAGH
WOULD BE HUNGRY BUT COULDN'T MATCH IT
By
Tony Leen
EVEN
the dressing-room chaos was organised. Oblivious to the hysteria outside,
Armagh officials were shepherding the media into corners where they could have
unfettered access to these history-makers. Already, pages of today's papers are
creased and stored for posterity. Embracing the moment. Stacking them neatly
into the treasure chest under the bed, to be retrieved time and again. In an
adjoining room, two county board officials sat beside each other, motionless,
speechless, bidding to grasp the enormity of their achievement.
FOR
MORE - VISIT
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/sport/Full_Story/did-sgThlmq1Foreg.asp
ARMAGH'S DELIVERANCE
Kernan Leads
Faithful To Promised Land
Martin
Breheny
ARMAGH
1-12 ; KERRY 0-14
WHEN
deliverance came, it was even more emotional than Armagh ever thought possible.
Over a century of disappointment and unfulfilled ambition disappeared into the
evening sky as Croke Park was turned into an orange bowl, with fans swarming
down from stand and terrace to join their heroes as Armagh captured the Bank of
Ireland senior football title for the very first time. Tears flowed openly as
supporters saluted the heroes who had provided the county with its greatest
ever day.
Armagh
became the 18th county the fifth from Ulster to win the All-Ireland title,
following in the footsteps of Donegal and Derry who made the breakthrough
inside the last decade.
FOR
MORE - VISIT
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=95&si=831755&issue_id=8072
SCORE BY SCORE
http://www.hoganstand.com/general/2002arts/september/092202.htm
=== TEAMS ===
KERRY
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1. Declan O’Keeffe (Rathmore) |
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2. Marc Ó Sé (An
Ghaeltacht) |
3. Seamus Moynihan (Glenflesk) |
4. Michael McCarthy (Kilcummin) |
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5. Tomás Ó Sé (An
Ghaeltacht) |
6. Eamon Fitzmaurice (Finuge) |
7. John Sheehan (Laune
Rangers) |
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8. Darragh Ó Sé (Capt) (An
Ghaeltacht) |
9. Donal Daly (Firies) |
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10. Seán O’Sullivan (Cromane) |
11. Eoin Brosnan (Dr.
Crokes) |
12. Liam Hassett (Laune
Rangers) |
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13. Mike Frank Russell (Laune
Rangers) |
14. Dara Ó Cinnéide (An
Ghaeltacht) |
15. Colm Cooper (Dr.
Crokes) |
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Subs: 16.
Diarmuid Murphy (Dingle) 17. Aodán
MacGearailt (An Ghaeltacht) 18.
John Crowley (Bishopstown, Cork) 19.
Tom O’Sullivan (Rathmore) 20.
Barry O’Shea (Kerins O’Rahillys) 21.
Seamus Scanlon (Currow) 22.
Declan O’Sullivan (Dromid Pearses) 23.
Mossy Lyons (Desmonds) |
- 24.
Ian Twiss (Milltown/Castlemaine) 25.
Fionnán Kelliher (Milltown / Castlemaine) 26.
Declan Quill (Kerins O’Rahillys) 27.
Ronan O’Connor (St. Michaels/Foilmore) 28.
Mike Finn (Austin Stacks) 29.
Enda Galvin (Finuge) 30.
Michael D. Cahill (Rathmore) |
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Management: Páidí Ó Sé,
An Ghaeltacht, Trainer John O'Keeffe,
Austin Stacks John O'Dwyer,
Waterville Eddie O'Sullivan,
Dr. Crokes Eamonn Walsh,
Knocknagoshel |
Back-up Support: Physio: Medical: Masseur: |
Micheál Lynch Dr. Dave Geaney & Dr. Micheal Finnerty John Kelly |
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ARMAGH
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1. Brendan Tierney |
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2. Francis Bellew |
3. Justin McNulty |
4. Enda McNulty |
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5. Aidan O'Rourke |
6. Kieran McGeeney (Capt) |
7. Andrew McCann |
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8. John Toal |
9. Paul McGrane |
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10. Paddy McKeever |
11. John McEntee |
12. Oisín McConville |
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13. Steven McDonnell |
14. Diarmuid Marsden |
15. Ronan Clarke |
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Subs: 16. Paul Hearty 17. Kieran Hughes 18. Cathal O'Rourke 19. Philip Loughran 20. Barry O'Hagan 21. John Donaldson 22. Barry Duffy 23. Gerard Reid |
- 24. Paul McCormack 25. Simon Maxwell 26. Padraig Duffy 27. Colm O'Neill 28. Kevin McElvanna 29. Shane Smith 30. Tony McEntee |
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Management: Joe Kernan, Manager Paul Grimley, Asst. Manager John McCloskey, team trainer |
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UPDATES THAT
WERE AVAILABLE ON MATCH DAY
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MATCH TRACKER http://www.hoganstand.com/general/2002arts/september/092202.htm RADIO
BROADCASTS VIA INTERNET Extended
coverage all weekend - Radio Kerry online http://www.radiokerry.ie/docs/rk_live.html VIDEO BROADCAST
VIA INTERNET Setanta Sport http://play.www.setantadc.servecast.net/ppv/setantadc/intro.asp |
PRE MATCH
BUILD-UP
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My
Friends, We are fast approaching one of THE
MIGHTY KINGDOMS biggest days out in two years. Not since
that glorious afternoon on 7th October 2000 have the green and gold ribbons
of our native Kerry been fixed to the arms of
our good friend Sam Maguire. I plea to
you, my fellow county man, to relax for the days and nights before. Don't
over indulge unnecessarily in ceremonious activities which could adversely
affect YOUR PERFORMANCE
on Kerry's big day. YOUR VOICE,
YOUR COLOURS, Your expert advice in the
pre and post match analysis is required by YOUR
COUNTY, by YOUR KINGDOM. Worry not
about accommodation, as the capital is willing to cater for one and all Kerry
supporters on this
weekend. We may not sleep, but sleeping merely makes us dream, and as chosen Kerry
people we need not dream, as victory is always a reality. In the
aftermath WE WILL over indulge. WE
WILL paint the town red (and not in memory of yet
another faltering year in the annals of Cork GAA history!!!). WE
WILL celebrate another wondrous performance by OUR
HEROES in green and gold.... Be there my
friend, your comrades and your county needs you. Answer the call. Ask not what your county can do for
you. Ciarraí go brach. D.N.
CIARRAÍ ABÚ |
