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KIERAN DONAGHY WILL wait to see how is body holds up after a winter of basketball before making a decision on whether to extend his inter-county career into 2017.<\/p>\n

As is always the case at this time of year, the Kerry full-forward\u2019s future has been the subject of much speculation, particularly after the recent retirement of team-mate\u00a0Marc \u00d3 S\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Donaghy, 33, has been a mainstay of Eamonn Fitzmaurice\u2019s forward line in recent seasons and featured 11 times for the Kingdom during their league and championship campaigns in 2016.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The42<\/em> in our Dublin office yesterday, the four-time All Ireland winner admitted that he doesn\u2019t quite know if it\u2019s time to call it a day or play on for a 12th year; a lot will depend on how he feels physically and mentally over the coming months.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m definitely coming to the end of my career anyway, whether it\u2019s over or not I just don\u2019t know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a kind of question at this stage that I\u2019d love to know the answer to because I\u2019ve got asked it so much in the last few weeks.\u00a0The reality of the situation is that I have to wait, play a bit of basketball through the winter and see how the body holds up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donaghy is currently playing for Tralee Warriors in the Irish National Super League, the top tier of men\u2019s basketball in Ireland.<\/p>\n

The season runs from September to mid-March and it is only then when Donaghy will inform Fitzmaurice and the Kerry management of his decision.<\/p>\n

\n Donaghy was won four All-Irelands during his career.<\/p>\n

Source: Ryan Byrne\/INPHO<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the body holds up, then I\u2019ve to go to my family and my job in PST Sports. I told them last year this was it, I told my family it would be the last time I would put them through the ringer of hearing abuse in the stands about me and I told my job.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing AstroTurf pitches in the UK and Ireland so I\u2019m over and back so I told them less of the travelling and kind of concentrate on football so that\u2019s another talk I\u2019m going to have.\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf it comes to the case of as I\u2019m playing the basketball this year and if I notice little tightening or stiffening of the body and I feel I\u2019m just not able for it, it makes it a lot easier a decision then and I\u2019ll make that when the time comes, when that is I don\u2019t know.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe body could blow up in two or three months and I could say \u2018you know what, this isn\u2019t actually right\u2019 but for now, it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI played eleven games in a row last year, I put in an unbelievable shift for my county, it wasn\u2019t enough in the end but back at the basketball now and I\u2019ll see where that takes me.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a frustrating couple of years with injury, 2016 was a good one for Donaghy as he returned to peak form and enjoyed an extended period in the starting XV until Kerry were dumped out at the semi-final stage by Dublin.<\/p>\n

Whether or not he\u2019s involved going forward, the Austin Stacks man believes Kerry football is in good health for the years to come.<\/p>\n

\n Donaghy and Kerry experienced disappointment in 2016.<\/p>\n

Source: Ryan Byrne\/INPHO<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah absolutely,\u201d he says, when asked if the Kingdom were in good stead. \u201cI think we\u2019re challenging now, we\u2019ve challenged the last few years. We have an All-Ireland in 2014 and we were beaten in finals in 2015 and 2011 and beaten in semi-finals in \u201913 and \u201916.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been always lucky enough to be knocking on the door when I\u2019ve been in a Kerry jersey. We\u2019ve always been there or there abouts, we\u2019ve won All-Irelands, we\u2019ve lost All-Irelands but we\u2019ve always come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the trademark of being from Kerry. Even if you win an All-Ireland you still have to come back, and when you lose an All-Ireland you still have to come back and that\u2019s just the pressure of wearing the jersey.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve three minors back-to-back but that doesn\u2019t really say anything really unless they transfer that into putting their mind into being senior players because it\u2019s a different kettle of fish altogether.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou\u2019d be hopeful that some of those talented minors get the bit between their teeth and don\u2019t settle on having a minor All-Ireland and sitting in a pub in 20 years telling fellas about it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to go on and have your career at senior level and let the old fellas in the pub tell you about how great you were and that should be the goal for all those minors and I hope it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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