Donaghy Star in the Algarve
Talking Balls
Big Kerry forward Kieran Donaghy was frothing about the facilities and benefits he and his Kerry teammates encountered during their week in the Algarve recently.
All the rage amongst the GAA cognoscenti this summer, it is understood Kerry didn’t just work on their farmers’ tans and test the elastic on their speedos. Sez Kieran: “It was a great week of training in Portugal because it brought us all together for six days. We had three sessions a day and shook the cobwebs off us after our league final defeat to Derry,”
“It was also because we had all the players back that were injured throughout the league so we had a clean bill of health for the week in Portugal so everyone is nearly one hundred percent again.
“Portugal was massive with all the facilities out there as we did weights, pilates, we did field sessions, we had meetings where we trashed everything out so, from every point of view, it was a very beneficial week all round.”
Interesting to see that they practised a bit of trashing according to Donaghy. Maybe that’s preparation for stiffer battles ahead.
Talking Balls understand the Kerry team also played a challenge match against a gather up of local Algarve folks. It is believed this was the perfect build up match for the sort of challenge the Kingdom will encounter when they play Waterford or Clare in the Munster Football Championship on 15 June.