Kerry legends game raises over €39,000 for Tralee four-year-old

A charity game between a Kerry GAA Legends team and a Kerry Soccer Legends side raised over €39,000 for a four-year-old boy from Tralee.

Alex Fitzgerald was diagnosed with metastatic neuroblastoma last year. Along with his parents John and Siobhan, he has made regular trips to Crumlin Children's Hospital for treatment. 

Alex, who has already undergone 10 rounds of chemotherapy, still has a long road ahead much of that being on the M7 from the Kingdom to Dublin. The money raised will go towards funding those trips. Doctors are currently in the process of harvesting Alex's stem cells as he will need a bone marrow transplant in the future.

The game, hosted by Kerry FC at their Mounthawk Park grounds, was won 4-0 by a Soccer Legends side which featured Billy Dennehy, Steven Conway, Shane Guthrie and Stephen Kelly. 

The Kerry Soccer Legends came out on top with a 4 - 0 victory over the Kerry GAA Legends in the Charity Legends match in Mounthawk Park tonight

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Dennehy, a former Shamrock Rovers player who is now Kerry FC's sporting director, was manager of the club last season. Alex and his parents are Dennehy's neighbours. Conway, Kerry FC's chief operations officer, also played at League of Ireland level, as did Guthrie, while Kelly was once on the books at Arsenal. 

The Kerry GAA Legends XI featured a spritely Maurice Fitzgerald along with Seamus Moynihan, Seamus Scanlon, Darran O'Sullivan, Barry John Keane, Brendan Kealy, Kieran O'Leary, Paul O'Connor, Shane Enright, Aidan O'Mahony and Daniel Bohan. 

€31,214 was raised through GoFundMe.