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4 unusual facts about Kerry


Crofton House School

Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Member of Parliament for Delta-Richmond East and Minister of National Revenue.

Kerry-Lee Harrington

Kerry-Lee Harrington (born March 21, 1986 in Durban) is a South African badminton player.

Munster Senior Football Championship

Kerry are the most successful, having won the Munster championship 74 times.

The championship is not very competitive: having been won by Kerry or Cork every year since the 1920s - except by Clare in 1992 and Tipperary in 1935.


1949 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

Cavan were aiming for three consecutive All-Ireland football titles, having beaten Kerry at America's Polo Grounds in 1947 and beaten Mayo at Croke Park in 1948.

1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

Kerry bridged an 11-year gap, the longest in their history, helped by nine Maurice Fitzgerald points.

2002 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

With Kerry two points down scores from Colm Cooper, Eoin Brosnan and Russell gave Kerry a one-point lead after 15 minutes.

2011 Munster Senior Football Championship

The winning Kerry team received the Cuppy Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

A Kick in the Arts

Kerry Packer — an Australian media tycoon who was personally responsible for the foundation of World Series Cricket — spoofed as Kerry Thwacker

A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

Hitchens shifted his opinion to "neutral", saying: "It's absurd for liberals to talk as if Kristallnacht is impending with Bush, and it's unwise and indecent for Republicans to equate Kerry with capitulation. There's no one to whom he can surrender, is there? I think that the nature of the jihadist enemy will decide things in the end".

Arakkonam

Some famous people who had their roots in Arakkonam Andrea JeremiahEditor Anthony(Lewellyn) - The best Editor in India, Kerry Monteen - Bollywood.

Beiginis

There is at least one other island in County Kerry called Beginish: it lies at the mouth of the River Ferta about 1 km from Valentia Island.

Chan Chandler

Chandler Chandler is the former pastor of East Waynesville Baptist Church who resigned after receiving national attention when nine members of his church who supported Democratic candidate John F. Kerry in the 2004 United States presidential election, took offense at his sermons pointing out Kerry's support of abortion and homosexuality, and left the church.

Christie Front Drive

Citing influences such as Superchunk, Jawbox, Buffalo Tom, and Drive Like Jehu, the lineup consisted of Ron Marschall (drums), Jason Begin (guitar), Kerry McDonald (bass), and Eric Richter (guitar and vocals).

Cian Ward

In the 2009 All-Ireland, he was the third highest top scorer after Donegal's Michael Murphy and Kerry's Colm Cooper.

Communists for Kerry

In September 2004, an Australian chapter of the group was opened, claiming, "John Kerry" is pronounced "Mark Latham" in Australian.

Crossmaglen

The county team were also in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final in 1953; local players Gene Morgan and Frank Kernan were on the team but they were defeated by Kerry.

D'Arcy Broderick

:Saint Brendan's Voyage
The Galtee Mountain Boy
New Mown Hay
Streets of New York
Phil The Fluthers Ball
Cliffs of Baccalieu
Jigs: Dr. Keiley-O/Whe're you goin' me silly old man/ Kerry Slide
Black Gold
Shores of Amerikay
Nancy Spain
Daisy A Day
Reels: The leaky roof/ Fiddles on the wall.

Diarmuid Murphy

Tyrone simply wore Kerry into the ground in the second-half as a priceless goal from Tommy McGuigan and a string of late points inspired Tyrone to their third All-Ireland title of the decade.

Do You Want Fries with That

"Do You Want Fries with That" is the title of a song written by Casey Beathard and Kerry Kurt Phillips, and performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw.

Donal IV O'Donovan

3) some daughters, the eldest of whom Elizabeth married Sylvester O'Sullivan, head of the sept MacFineen Duff of Derreenavurrig in Kerry, by whom she had numerous issue.

EXIT Theatre

In 2002 EXIT Theatre founded DIVAfest and premieres have included Last of the Red Hot Dadas by Kerry Reid with a soundscape by Pamela Z (based on Dada artist Baroness Elsa von Fretag Loringhoven); E.O. 9066 by Liebe Wetzel (a found object play based on the Executive Order 9066 that interned Japanese Americans during WWII); and Crystal Daze by Deborah Eubanks (dealing with mothers, daughters and methamphetamine addiction).

Father Casey's GAA

Caseys GAA Grounds & Pavilion are situated on the Kerry side of the River Feale on the outskirts of Abbeyfeale.

Francis Thomas-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry

Others took a more jaundiced view: Horace Walpole called Kerry " a simple young Irish peer that has married an elderly Irishwoman who was divorced on his account and wasted a vast estate on the idlest ostentation."

Glossary of Gaelic games terms

For example, the 1908 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship saw Dublin beat Kerry in the home final, before becoming All-Ireland champions by beating London in the actual final, which was London's only game in that year's championship.

Guerrilla Phase of the Irish Civil War

They held out in areas such as the western part of counties Cork and Kerry in the south, County Wexford in the east and counties Sligo and Mayo in the west.

Gus Cremins

With his team mate and fellow midfielder, the great Eddie Dowling, Gus helped the Shannon Rangers win the 1945 Kerry County Championship, thus putting him in line for the Kerry captaincy the following year.

Ian Meadows

In 2010, he has a recurring role on police series Rush, playing James, the son of Inspector Kerry Vincent (played by Catherine McClements).

Jewelled Antler

The Jewelled Antler Collective is a term that has been applied to a larger group of musicians working with Chasse and Donaldson or on their own in similar areas: Steven R. Smith, Rob Reger, Donovan Quinn, Christine Boepple, Greg Bianchini, Keith Evans, Eleanor Harwood and Kerry McLaughlin.

John Dawson Dewhirst

Some time in July 1978, while visiting a friend in the eastern Malaysian town of Kuala Terengganu—on the slow road from Japan back to England—26 year-old Dewhirst met Canadian Stuart Glass and New Zealander Kerry Hamill, co-owners of a little Malaysian bedar (traditional, double-ended wooden boat) named Foxy Lady.

As "Secretary" of Democratic Kampuchea's Division 164—comprising the nation's navy—Mut would have been responsible for the gunning down of Stuart Glass and the seizure of Foxy Lady's two other crew, Kerry Hamill and John Dewhirst—not to mention the arrest of the other six Western yachtsmen.

Instead, she handed a note to Rob Hamill, younger brother of Kerry Hamill, to share with the court.

Kerry Gordy

In 2004 Kerry co-founded Siebers Style with exercise guru Debbie Siebers who earlier that year struck a deal with Beachbody to sell the “ Debbie Siebers Slim in 6” rapid weight loss program.

Kerry Kayes

Recently Kerry has been sought out for advice and nutrition products by Anthony McGann & Lee Gwynn from the Wolfslair Mixed Martial Art Academy for its stable of fighters including Michael Bisping, Paul Kelly, Mario Sukata, Hall of Famer Mark Coleman (one of only 5 UFC hall of famers)and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.

Kim Hyde

Kim is shocked when Barry is unmasked as the murderer of local mayor Josh West (Daniel Collopy) who blackmailed him about the death of Kim's mother, Kerry and stands by his father.

Linda Hartley-Clark

In 2004 and 2006, Hartley-Clark provided voiceovers for Kerry's diary being read by her daughter Sky Mangel (Stephanie McIntosh).

Lisselton

The parish has been represented on the county team on a number of occasions, providing three of the 1947 team that played in the only All Ireland final ever hosted outside of the country, the Kerry-Cavan duel played in The Polo Grounds in New York.

Louisiana state elections, 2010

Besides contributions to Clinton, Kerry, former state senator Cleo Fields, and former U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson, a Dardenne commercial criticized Fayard's previous employment by Goldman Sachs, which later received a federal bailout: "Analysts like Fayard got rich but cost us billions."

Malcolm Mackerras

Mackerras said that John Kerry would defeat George W. Bush in a "landslide" in the U.S. presidential election the following day, and specifically predicted that Kerry would carry Florida, Ohio, Nevada and Missouri.

Matthias Sperling

He was a member of Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance Company for five years and also worked with companies including Kerry Nicholls Dance Company and Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, besides participating in the Jerwood Bank Project 2006 with Siobhan Davies Dance Company.

Nicholas Donnelly

In 1882, on the death of his half sister Mary Boland (née Donnelly), he became guardian of her seven children, five girls and two boys, Patrick and John Pius Boland (who won two olympic medals in 1896 and became an MP for South Kerry).

Nina Easton

While working for The Boston Globe, Easton co-authored John F. Kerry: A Complete Biography by The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, with fellow Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Brian Mooney.

Paddy Keenan

This led to an ongoing musical relationship with the London-born, Kerry-based guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan.

Password Plus and Super Password

However, a viewer in Anchorage, Alaska called the United States Secret Service and reported that "Quinn" was really Kerry Lee Ketchum, who was wanted on state fraud charges in Alaska and Indiana as well as federal mail fraud charges in California.

Paul Janensch

He taught a course on the autobiographical writings of Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt to Quinnipiac students studying in County Kerry, Ireland.

Private Members' Bills in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Labour Party politician Kerry McCarthy has compared the system to the BBC radio game show Just a Minute but in reverse stating that the more hesitation, deviation and repetition an MP makes the more likely they are to defeat a bill.

Robert Whittaker

s under Whittaker include Walter Westman, Robert Peet (now at University of North Carolina), Susan Bratton (now at Baylor University), Thomas Wentworth (now at North Carolina State University), Owen Sholes (now at Assumption College), Mark Wilson (now at Oregon State University), Linda Olsvig-Whittaker (now at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority) and Kerry Woods (now at Bennington College).

Rowland Blennerhassett

Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet (1839–1909), Irish MP for Galway Borough 1865–1874 and Kerry 1880–1885

Sky Mangel

During a picnic with Harold and Kerry, Sky is bitten by a Redback spider.

South Kerry

South Kerry GAA, a Gaelic football Divisional Team in County Kerry

Uilleann pipes

As late as the 19th century the instrument was still commonly associated with the Anglo-Irish, e.g. the Anglican clergyman Canon James Goodman (1828–1896) from Kerry, who interestingly had his uilleann pipes buried with him at Creagh (Church of Ireland) cemetery near Baltimore, County Cork.

Valley County, Montana

In 2004 Valley County voted 62% for Bush/Cheney (GOP) and 36% for Kerry/Edwards (DEM) for president.

Yann Goulet

He was commissioned to create public works commemorating the IRA and other republicans, including the Custom House Memorial (Dublin), the East Mayo Brigade IRA Memorial, the Republican Memorial (Crossmaglen), and the Ballyseedy Memorial (Kerry).

Yulia MacLean

Yulia was first discovered on regional television as a last minute subject for a ten minute segment on Good Living With Kerry Pierson on Christchurch's local television station CTV.


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