Meanwhile, Mourneabbey Ladies are champions again in Cork.
RATHMORE AND DEFENDING champions East Kerry are the first two teams to qualify for the Kerry Senior Football Championship semi-finals after respective quarter-final wins over Spa and St Kierans respectively on Saturday afternoon.
Rathmore were always fairly much in control at Fitzgerald Stadium, and the 2022 All-Ireland intermediate champions opened up a 0-4 to 0-1 lead after 10 minutes. Advertisement It is likely Rathmore will appeal Ryan’s suspension, and they will certainly need him and Paul Murphy if they hope to make it back to another county championship final, twelve months after winning the county Intermediate championship final.
Subs: Ciaran Spillane 1-0 for Tobin , Shane Lynch for E O’Donoghue , Luke O’Neill for M O’Donoghue , Ryan O’Carroll for Vaughan .East Kerry remain on track for a successful title defence – and a fourth title in five years – after a comfortable win over St Kierans in their quarter-final clash at Austin Stack Park in Tralee.
Paudie Clifford set up Darragh Roche for a 26th minute goal to help East Kerry to a 1-7 to 0-4 half time lead, and with the wind advantage with the champions for the second half there was an inevitability about the result at the interval.