Mounthawk ready for Croker

Mercy Mounthawk Tralee are seeking to becoming the fifth Kerry school to win a Hogan Cup title on Saturday afternoon in Croke Park, and the good news is that they expect Jack Murphy to be fit to face defending champions Omagh CBS of Tyrone.

Murphy sustained a knee injury in the aftermath of their semi-final win over Naas CBS but team manager Aidan O’Shea says the school expect him to be fit to feature on Saturday at 3pm. Mounthawk look to bring the Hogan Cup back to Kerry for a ninth time in total.

O’Shea has maintained a calm atmosphere about the school heading to GAA Headquarters for the first time as can be judged by his comments at the school’s pre-final press briefing. “We haven’t burdened the players with any major overall targets this season which I feel has been a massive help to us. It was simply about making weekend games firstly and then taking each game from there. We never put this target of winning either this or the Corn Uí Mhuirí in front of them at the start, if anything what we have been doing is distracting the players from all those thoughts,” he said

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Cronin all set for Boston bout

As his long wait to return to the ring finally ends stateside Saturday night, ‘Kingdom Warrior’ Kevin Cronin was hoping he would get a good test in facing American Patrick Pierre in Boston when speaking prior to his departure on Monday. 

Cronin’s first announced opponent for his trip to America - Cleotis Pendarvis - pulled out shortly after the fight was initially announced last month as Pierre has stepped in following a number of other potential opponents falling by the wayside for Cronin. 

“A lot of the names mentioned probably didn’t want the L after the fight in getting in the ring with me but in fairness to Patrick he is like any good journeyman boxing in not caring about his win-loss record and just wanting to fight,” Cronin told Kerry’s Eye Sport. 41-year old Pierre has only recorded five wins in a 32 fight career but will face Cronin over six rounds in a so-called ‘catchweight’ contest with Pierre coming down from Light Heavyweight to fight the Super Middleweight ‘Kingdom Warrior’. 

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