The final countdown

WITH 44 Galway titles between them, not to mention runners-up finishes on another 24 occasions, it's somewhat surprising that Tuam Stars and Corofin met just five times in Senior Football Championship finals prior to last Sunday week's drawn classic.
The first, all the way back in 1932, brought Corofin's big breakthrough. A further 56 years passed until they ran into each other again in Galway football's showpiece. The Stars shone in '88, pulling clear in a low-scoring match and setting in train a two in-a-row.
Corofin, meanwhile, finished with a bit to spare after weathering a second half fightback in 2011. In between were the finals of 1994 and '95, the high-water mark of their rivalry, back-to-back thrillers with only a score separating the sides after epic finishes.
Herald Sport took a trip down memory lane and looked back at the more final clashes with some of the key personalities involved: Gerry Bodkin and Pete Warren from Tuam Stars and Corofin's Ray Silke and Alan Burke.

Read the full preview in this week's edition of The Tuam Herald