However, utter midfield dominance, marvellous individual displays by Evan Boyle, Daniel Kirby and Gear\u00f3id White and a two-point second-half shut-out of Tyrone ensured the title was theirs.<\/p>\n
Kerry had been as far back as eight points in the middle of the first half but were a point ahead nine minutes into the second half. Kirby\u2019s third point of the game was their eighth without reply, scored in a period where they ruled the skies. White thumped over a two-point free to stretch the gap to three and it became four when Pa Walsh advanced to split the posts.<\/p>\n
By the time Shea McDermott brought his own tally to 1-5 in the 49th minute, Tyrone hadn\u2019t scored in 24 minutes. But he doubled his and his county\u2019s second-half tally seconds later and Tyrone were just two behind in the 50th minute.<\/p>\n
Kerry shifted gears once more and substitute Jack Joy\u2019s incisive score was backed by another booming White two-point free in the 54th minute and the difference was five.<\/p>\n
![\"Killian](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5100927_4_articleinlinemobile_3472531.jpg\" "\\"Killian")
Killian Dennehy of Kerry celebrates after scoring a point against Tyrone. Pic: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n
The game concluded as a contest when Tyrone captain Conor Devlin was sin binned for a deliberate trip on the marauding White and Tom\u00e1s Kennedy converted the resultant free. Seven points up in the 26th minute, Tyrone had been sitting pretty. All of their 1-8 total had been scored by their inside line, 1-4 for McDermott and another three points by Adrian McGurren.<\/p>\n
Their speedy transfers and off-the-ball running had Kerry dazed, no more so than the 11th minute when McDermott finished a goal with great composure.<\/p>\n
The Errigal Ciar\u00e1n tyro had linked up with McGurren and Leo Hughes in taking a score that had a touch of Owen Mulligan 2005 about it.<\/p>\n
Tyrone followed it up with three points without reply, two of them McGurren finishes, and Kerry were facing an eight-point deficit. A Kennedy mark stemmed the haemorrhaging but Peter Colton sent another warning shot in the 21st minute, his shot kept out by Kacper Robak.<\/p>\n
After White and McDermott exchanged frees, Boyle grabbed the game. He had caught two beautiful balls inside the first 10 minutes but went into overdrive in the final five minutes of the half.<\/p>\n
His 26th minute two-pointer came after he had caught a kick-out and he was instrumental in their excellent finish to the half as Tyrone were overwhelmed in midfield.<\/p>\n
Substitute Killian Dennehy followed up with a point, Boyle added another for good measure and Kirby\u2019s second brought them within two at the break, 0-9 to 1-8.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Kerry: G. White (0-5, 2 tpfs, 1 free); T. Kennedy (0-4, 3 frees, 1 mark); E. Boyle (1 tp), D. Kirby (0-3 each); E. O\u2019Flatherty, K. Dennehy, R. Carroll, P. Walsh, J. Joy, J. O\u2019Sullivan (0-1 each).<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Tyrone: S. McDermott (1-6, 1 tpf, 1 free); A. McGurren (0-3); P. Colton (0-1).<\/p>\n
\n KERRY: K. Robak; M. Lynch, G. Evans, D. Stack; E. O\u2019Flaherty, A. \u00d3 Beaglaoich, P. Walsh; D. Kirby, E. Boyle; S. \u00d3 Cuinn, G. White, J. O\u2019Sullivan; R. Carroll, T. Kennedy, P. Lane (c).<\/p>\n
\n Subs for Kerry: K. Dennehy for M. Lynch (24); D. Hogan for P. Lane (inj 34); J. Joy for R. Carroll (46); D. Sargent for S. \u00d3 Cuinn (52); M. McKivergan for J. O\u2019Sullivan (60).<\/p>\n
\n TYRONE: O. Watson; S. Broderick, L. Neeson, M. McNamee; A. Quinn, C. Devlin, B. Gallagher; E. Donaghy, C. O\u2019Neill; C. Sheehy, L. Hughes, T. Muldoon; A. McGurren, P. Colton, S. McDermott.<\/p>\n
\n Subs for Tyrone: R. McCullagh for P. Colton (35); J. Concannon for T. Muldoon (53); D. Donaghy for A. McGurren (54).<\/p>\n
\n Black card: C. Devlin (56-ft).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: T. Murphy (Galway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland U20 Football Championship final: Kerry 0-21 (0-3-15) Tyrone 1-10 (1-1-8)\u00a0 Tyrone haunt Kerry at U20 level no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4365,6937,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-475701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475701","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=475701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}