{"id":473596,"date":"2026-05-29T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:42:08","slug":"boost-for-kerry-as-killian-dennehy-named-to-start-all-ireland-u20-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473596\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost for Kerry as Killian Dennehy named to start All-Ireland U20 final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry have made one change to their team for Saturday&#8217;s All-Ireland U20 football final against Tyrone from the side which  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41844570.html\">defeated Roscommon<\/a> in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>In a major boost, key midfielder and forward Killian Dennehy has been named to start the game. The Cordal clubman missed the semi-final due to a hamstring injury. Dennehy replaces Mark O&#8217;Caroll in the half-forward line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Speaking earlier this weekend, Kerry manager Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 was unsure if Dennehy would be available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;He hasn\u2019t done a lot of training, so he\u2019s still not back to 100% but, hopefully the week will tell a lot,&#8221; said \u00d3 S\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kerry face a Tyrone side aiming to win a third consecutive title at this grade. They defeated the Kingdom in the 2024 final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday&#8217;s game at Croke throws in at 5pm. It will be shown live on TG4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            KERRY: K Robak (Dr Crokes); M Lynch (Milltown\/Castlemaine), G Evans (Keel), D Stack (Kilcummin); E O\u2019Flaherty (Ardfert), A \u00d3 Beaglaoich (An Ghaeltacht), P Walsh (Listowel Emmets); D Kirby (Austin Stacks), E Boyle (Ballyduff); J O\u2019Sullivan (Kenmare Shamrocks), G White (John Mitchels), K Dennehy (Cordal); R Carroll (Austin Stacks), T Kennedy (Kerins O\u2019Rahillys), P Lane (Austin Stacks).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Subs: B Fitzsimons (Kenmare Shamrocks), M McKivergan (Ballymacelligott), S \u00d3 Cuinn (An Ghaeltacht), D Sargent (John Mitchels), D Hogan (Milltown\/Castlemaine), J Joy (Ballymacelligott), P Finucane (Tarbert), I Brosnan (Castleisland Desmonds), M O\u2019Carroll (Dr Crokes), J Curtin (Ballyduff), A Byrne (Dr Crokes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry have made one change to their team for Saturday&#8217;s All-Ireland U20 football final against Tyrone from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,43,850],"class_list":["post-473596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}