Pres. College Headford 4-9 St. Joseph’s 2-7 PRESENTATION College, Headford won the Connacht Colleges First Year ‘A’ Championship at Pearse Stadium with an eight-point victory over The ‘Bish from Galway. With less than ten minutes remaining this result was far from certain as the Bish led by three points. Headford who had played well in [...]
HOW MANY of the Galway football squad that won the 1998-2001 All-Ireland titles would get on the 1964-65-66 three-in a-row team? And were some who played in between those famous successes better than any of the All-Ireland winners? Would the three JCs (John Connolly, Joe Cooney, Joe Canning) make the best Galway hurling team of [...]
By JIM CARNEY Kilkerrin-Clonberne .1-9 Caherlistrane .1-8 A TIGHT, well-contested, very enjoyable and at times exciting North Board U-21 B Football Championship final at Tuam Stadium last Saturday evening came down in the closing stages to a high, dropping ball that went over the bar at one end while the next one, at the other [...]
Archbishop McHale College, Tuam .3-9 New Inn Vocational School .4-3 Archbishop McHale College were crowned VS Junior Football County Champions in a thrilling final at Tuam Stadium on Thursday last. Victory was by 3 points after Tuam led at half-time by 2-5 to 2-1. The goals came from the influential Dylan Wall and captain Keith [...]
IN a packed programme of club football matches from Friday to next Wednesday, pride of place goes to the County U-21 (A grade) final at Pearse Stadium on Sunday: Corofin vs St James’s, at Pearse Stadium, 4.00 o’clock; referee M. Flaherty. A double-bill at the Salthill venue opens with the Supervalu West Minor (A) League [...]
By JIM CARNEY IT was the most eagerly awaited and most exciting start to the Galway Senior Hurling Championship since the time when the county’s premier club hurling competition was knock-out from the first round on. With the change of format, a huge incentive to win first time out is safety from relegation down the [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Turloughmore .0-17 Liam Mellows .1-8 TURLOUGHMORE gave their most efficient performance for some time when comfortably seeing off the feeble challenge of a very disappointing Liam Mellows side at Pearse Stadium on Sunday. Granted, the Hoops were helped by the woefully inaccurate city men who shot five wides in the first half [...]
By JIM CARNEY Loughrea .0-16 Athenry .1-11 THERE ARE defeats that have no ‘positives’ and give no cause for optimism but sometimes, as Athenry experienced at Kenny Park on Sunday, they can be a launch pad for a new beginning and a brighter future. Loughrea, always a Championship force with their “hard team to beat” [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Galway .1-16 Sligo .0-16 A SPIRITED Galway team ended the Sligo hoodoo of recent years in the Connacht Junior Football Championship when the sides met at Kilcoyne Park, Tubbercurry last Friday evening. The Yeats County were denied a hat-trick of successive wins over the visitors by a storming finish amid great excitement [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Galway 4-21 Dublin 0-19 GALWAY’S season, which seemed to be in freefall a few weeks ago, was rescued in dramatic fashion at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise last Saturday when their superb second-half display in this relegation play-off replay enabled them to comfortably retain their place in Division 1A of the Allianz Hurling League. [...]
