Paul Galvin's claim that Kerry are lagging behind other counties when it comes to underage coaching and structures has been refuted by county chairman Patrick O'Sullivan.

O'Sullivan revealed to the Irish Examiner that Kerry will shortly announce plans to develop a new Centre of Excellence and insisted that they have some of their best GAA coaches in the country working for them.

"Just look at the calibre of coaches we have; Donal Daly and Mike Quirke are All-Ireland senior medallists with Kerry so I think our coaching personnel is top class," he said.

"I would agree with him (Galvin) that we need facilities for a school of excellence, a home for our coaches and facilities that they can work out of but I don't agree that we are lagging behind at a coaching level.

"We have been working hard with Croke Park over the past couple of years to put a financial plan together that would see a school of excellence being developed which would be of huge benefit to Kerry. Within weeks I expect to be announcing positive news on developments that we have in the pipeline and a proper financial plan that will ensure we can pay for these facilities.

"I will keep the promises made by my two predecessors (Sean Walsh and Jerome Conway) but I have no intention of running up huge debts in the process. I can assure Kerry supporters that I am very close to bringing final plans to county committee for approval that will benefit Kerry team preparations going forward." Tweet

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