{"id":156493,"date":"2025-11-01T04:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156493\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T04:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:34:11","slug":"kerry-set-to-open-national-league-campaign-against-roscommon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156493\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry set to open National League campaign against Roscommon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All-Ireland SFC champions Kerry are to start the defence of their Division 1 title against Roscommon in Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday, January 25.<\/p>\n<p>Starting their season in earnest, All-Ireland hurling winners Tipperary will meet Galway under lights in FBD Semple Stadium on Saturday, January 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That same weekend, Cork\u2019s teams will enjoy a home doubleheader in SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh: Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s first season game coming against promoted Waterford, which is preceded by the footballers\u2019 Division 2 clash with Cavan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Limerick have a bye in the opening hurling weekend as Offaly and Kilkenny meet in the remaining Division 1 game. Clare v Dublin is the pick of the first round matches in Division 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The National Football League fixtures currently being disseminated among counties are provisional but the Rossies under new manager Mark Dowd and selector\/coach Jason Sherlock are expected to be the Kingdom\u2019s opponents in the county\u2019s first home opening in Killarney since Tyrone in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A trip to Donegal is pencilled in for the following weekend before Jack O\u2019Connor\u2019s men return home to Austin Stack Park to face Galway in Round 3. A date with Dublin in Croke Park on Saturday, February 21 is on the cards where All-Ireland semi-finalists Meath could form one half of the curtain-raiser and then back-to-back home games against Monaghan (Killarney) and Mayo (Tralee), the latter of which is set to be played under lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Kerry selector and coach Kieran Donaghy is due to face his former Armagh colleagues in the final round game in Armagh city\u2019s Box-It Athletic Grounds on Sunday, March 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, Jason Sherlock has been confirmed as part of the Roscommon senior football management team under new manager Mark Dowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thursday night&#8217;s meeting of the county board ratified Sherlock&#8217;s appointment on the team alongside Iain Daly (Michael Glaveys), John Rogers (Strokestown) and former Kilkenny hurling strength and conditioning coach Mickey Comerford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC champions Kerry are to start the defence of their Division 1 title against Roscommon in Fitzgerald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10417,10416,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-156493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gaelic-football","9":"tag-kerry-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}