As Ireland bid farewell to a sporting icon ... Mass for his father Mick O'Dwyer at St Finian’s Church, Waterville, Co Kerry. Picture Dan Linehan “We had a brief exchange before he left ...

loved Waterville, loved Kerry, loved football but you need to know that all of us, across our nation, across the four provinces of Ireland, loved you and admired you with all our hearts.” ...

Picture: Dan Linehan GAA stars, fans, and grieving family gathered in Waterville, Co Kerry, on Friday evening to say their final goodbyes to one of Ireland’s greatest sports stars Mick O'Dwyer.

In an inter-county career that spanned 57 years, he won four All-Ireland titles as a player but it was a manager of the legendary Kerry sides ... underage teams in Waterville up to the age of ...

in Waterville Co Kerry. A hotelier and mechanic by profession, his love of football simply consumed him from an early age. At 17, he played for the Kerry minors, losing in the All-Ireland MFC final.

Kerry in south-west Ireland conjures up images of green meadows dotted with sheep, untamed coastlines, ruined castles and ...

O’Dwyer, who hailed from the village of Waterville, won four All-Ireland titles with his beloved Co Kerry as a player between 1959 and 1970, and an unrivalled eight as a manager in the 1970s and ...

President Michael D Higgins has led tributes following the death of legendary GAA player and manager Mick O’Dwyer at the age of 88.

MICK O'Dwyer's funeral will take place in his native Waterville, County Kerry on Saturday ... Thanks to their All-Ireland qualifier win over Fermanagh, he could claim to have beaten every county ...

Mick O’Dwyer or ‘Micko’ as he was known to everyone but his first wife, Mary Carmel, who addressed him as ‘Michael’ was the most successful Gaelic football manager of his time, as well as a great ...

McKenna, impressed by how the new manager had led Waterville to three successive county finals ... including in the epic 1977 All-Ireland semi-final. In Kerry, pressure mounted and it was ...