Listry is a small football club just outside Killarney with a decent record for its size. It has won a county junior title, reached a Premier Junior final, and in Ruairí Murphy it has sent a forward into the Kerry senior team.
Listry’s first great run came early. The club won the East Kerry senior championship five years running from 1937 to 1941 and again in 1970. Later generations had to climb back up the county league, and the Regan brothers, the Regans of Listry, are credited with leading one side out of Division 5. The youngest of them, Donagh Regan, wrote the memoir The Man from the Cross.
The modern honours followed. Listry lost Kerry Novice finals in 1999, 2002, 2010 and 2013 before winning the competition in 2014. In 2017 they won the Kerry Junior Football Championship, beating Castlegregory 2-12 to 2-11 in the final. In 2022 they reached the Premier Junior final, losing to Fossa 4-15 to 0-22 after extra time at Fitzgerald Stadium.
Listry opened their 2026 Premier Junior campaign on 2 August with a 1-20 to 1-9 win over Tarbert, the previous year’s junior champions, at Mountcoal. Padraig O’Donoghue scored 1-4, Ronan Buckley 0-5 and Ruairí Murphy five points. A 3-7 to 0-15 win over St Senan’s at home put them into the semi-finals, where Churchill held them to five scores. Keel went on to beat Churchill 0-14 to 0-12 in the final.
Listry play in green and white. In 2019 the club was fundraising for an indoor sports hall beside its pitches so nearly 120 underage players could train through the Kerry winter.
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Facts checked: 11 November 2026.
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