Karl Lacey will visit the Tuam Stars Underage this Friday (19th) at 5.30 and he will be holding a training session with the U-16s. Karl plays inter-county Gaelic football for Donegal. A much decorated individual, he has won All Star Footballer of the Year 2012, four All-Star awards in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2012, All-Ireland [...]
By JIM CARNEY Galway 1-17 Roscommon 2-11 (after extra-time) ON the evening of the Aintree Grand National, Galway U-21 footballers jumped their own Becher’s Brook in the race to maintain the county’s great record in the grade. It was Galway’s 18th Connacht U-21 title, five behind Mayo who haven’t won it since 2009; Roscommon have [...]
By JIM CARNEY GALWAY seniors are two hours away from a return to the top flight in the Ladies Football National League after they concluded their Division Two group campaign at Spa, Co. Kerry last Sunday. A draw, Galway 2-13 Kerry 3-10, was enough to give Galway a share of top spot with their Kerry [...]
IRELAND may have dominated Cheltenham last month but the legendary “luck of the Irish” ran out when our strongly fancied runners in the Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool on Saturday finished out of the picture. It was hugely disappointing for the two Galway horses, in particular. Punters here and across-Channel poured so much money on [...]
By JIM CARNEY THE CLOUD of uncertainty that’s hung over Galway football for the past nine months — sometimes dissolving into apathy and a loss of hope — is lifting since the recent victories in the Connacht U-21 Championship, over Mayo, and the National League, over Wexford. Sure, the seniors did not beat top-tier opposition; [...]
By JIM CARNEY IT’S that time of year again! The excitement is building to fever pitch in the build-up to the greatest horse-race in the world, the John Smith’s Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool. The Cheltenham Gold Cup is considered to be the blue riband event in steeplechasing but in National Hunt racing the Aintree [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Galway .0-15 Waterford .0-12 WHAT A DIFFERENCE an hour makes. At 3.00pm last Sunday as Galway hurlers lined up to face the home side Waterford at Walsh Park they were bottom of the Division 1A table with a bad points difference total while their hosts were perched proudly at the top and [...]
TRI LAKES Triathlon Club have launched their annual race, The Quiet Man Triathlon which takes place on Sunday, 12th May in Cong, Co. Mayo. This race consists of a 750-metre swim in Lough Corrib, following by a 20km out-and-back cycle and a 5km trial run in Cong Woods. The race is set at the picturesque Lisloughrey [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Galway ……………………. 2-12 Cork ……………………….. 2-12 A POINT LOST rather than one gained as far as Galway are concerned and they remain rooted to the bottom of Division 1A of the Allianz National Hurling League table as a result of failing to beat Cork in an action-packed clash at Pearse Stadium, Salthill [...]
By BILLY COSS Galway ……………………. 1-16 Wexford ………………….. 0-11 RELIEF was the over-riding emotion at Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon as a fast-finishing Galway team struck 1-6 without reply over the final 15 minutes to leave the unthinkable prospect of relegation behind and guarantee their Division 2 survival with an eight-point win over Wexford. With Alan [...]
