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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Surprised to see people saying it was a great advertisement for Galway football. I'm an outsider and thought it was pretty poor stuff.
With a gale force wind blowing, no team seemed to know how to take advantage of it. I'd have called it a 6-8 point advantage for the team playing with the wind.
An spideal going in a point down at half time, I thought they'd romp home but they never showed up and caherlistrane battled hard and were well deserved winners.
Salthill Knocknacarra took 25 minutes before registering a point with a huge wind behind their back. Pretty much everyone at the ground thought they were gone at half time.
letsgosligo (National) - 25/10/2026 23:48:29
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
My Intermediate team of the year
Colm Lavin (Éire Og)
Evan Flynn (Tulsk)
Nikita Berzins (Shannon Gaels)
Denis Barron (Éire Og)
Dylan Gaughan (Tulsk)
Eoin McCormack (Dominic's)
Eoin Ward (Fuerty)
Ryan Larkin (Tulsk)
Keith Doyle (Dominic's)
Ronan Cahill (Éire Og)
Thomas O'Rourke (Tulsk)
Brian Greene (Éire Og)
Fiachra Henry (St Michaels)
Conor Cox (Éire Og)
Daire Keenan (Dominic's)
Others I've considered
Joe Hester,James Greene,Jason Doory (Eire og) Sean Martin,James Brady,Padraig Scott (Tulsk) Eamonn Bannon Gearóid Ennis(Fuerty) Hugh Molloy (Shannon Gaels) Alan Conroy (St Croans) Shane Dowd (Creggs) Cillian Campbell (Barrys) Jeff Oates (Michaels) Jack lohan Michael Moran Dominic's)
The_analyser (National) - 25/10/2026 23:56:51
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
22.50 to stream the final is a bit much
Kew (National) - 25/10/2026 15:58:44
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International Rules - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "GAA HQ? Isn't that money the money that we all get?" No. Only 5m goes back to clubs. Where did this narrative that all the money goes back to the clubs start? It's amazing the amount of people who think the GAA are funding facilities when it's actually local fundraising and government grants.
Kew (National) - 25/10/2026 16:02:26
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Congratulations to Eire Og. Delighted for manager Brendan Greene and the management team.
Senior football for Loughglynn for the first time in decades if my memory serves me right. Hope ye celebrate it in style.
Rossieforever (National) - 25/10/2026 16:29:52
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Ballinamore full value for their win, best of luck to them. Never really had to get out of third gear. Paul Moran and Tom Prior very sharp. Disappointing to see Fenaghs fans stream out of the stand with 5 minutes left, their players deserve better. Only your third county final in 30 years But sure good to beat the traffic :/
MagnumPIG (National) - 25/10/2026 17:28:05
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Wonderful match, wonderful final. Well done to Salthill K (Bóthar na Trá) hard luck to Maigh Cuileann. Great catch at the end by John Maher. Great finish by Tomo Culhane. Great advert for Galway club football.
galwayford (National) - 25/10/2026 19:02:30
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Second half was absolutely brilliant after a very cagey first half. Moycullen will we wondering all winter how they managed to get caught out from a simple goal kick, midfield fetch and long ball into the forwards. It's like they pushed up on the final kick out and were man for man in their own full-back line.
Marooned (National) - 25/10/2026 19:06:51
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seniorleague: "SK very worthy winners despite needing a last minute goal.
Two points up with mere seconds to go and Moycullen leave an acre of space on front of their keeper. Shocking game management." Maher seemed to be given a lot of freedom , after making the catch , to kick the ball in to the forward. A sickener for Moycullen but many games are decided in the last seconds. Not over until it's over.
endgame (National) - 25/10/2026 19:58:17
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To IronSleeve: "You're right, Ballinamore are probably the best team for Connacht but for a Leitrim team to do well at this level they'd have to have a load of county players.
Fenagh left their chance behind them the last day as we all know, there was a pick off the ground in the lead up to the Bmore goal but thems the breaks. However, they were fortunate against Leitrim Gaels so maybe things even out. I thought there wasn't an awful lot between the top five senior teams.
Strange Junior A final. Lot of off the ball stuff which wasn't picked up. Aughnasheelin managed to stay in it when Kiltubrid should've been out of sight at half time." Re the Junior A final, two very evenly matched teams - aughnasheelin got a 13 metre free for a breach injury time I think when I counted 3 defensive breach's that should have gone Kiltubrid away over the game. Kiltubrid keeper also gifted aughnaheelin a goal.
Typical local derby overall- no fancy football and nobody stood out. Kiltubrid have lots of youth and probably will be favourites for Junior title next year.
On a whole great to see all our championships get more competitive. To win junior now or intermediate needs a serious effort from all our first teams - can see all our clubs putting in a serious shift to get up to the required standard.
I don't expect any of our clubs to win a Connacht club game (maybe Annaduff might have enough for curry) but over the next few years i expect we will become much more competitive in Connacht which will only benefit the inter county team.
The clubs and the county board deserve great credit for reforming the leagues and championships at club level
leitrim4sam (National) - 25/10/2026 20:47:40
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seniorleague: "Any updates re connacht club fixtures and venues" Senior - Brids v Sligo in the Hyde.
Salthill play Ballinamore don't know where.
Winners of those games play each other.
Meanwhile Castlebar play London Chanpions in the other semi.
Seanfan (National) - 25/10/2026 22:55:43
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Wexford Club Hurling 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "It was always going to get worse with the end of the split season. I get Rathnure dont play Football, but nearly every other club does. Jumping from code to code every couple of weeks isnt going to help lads stick work." Or maybe playing both codes helps? Shels destroyed Rathnure physically, the amount of times they turned the ball over at Rathnure's half-back line and surged into open ground was shocking. Had at least two goal chances cleared off the line. Their football stock told on a heavy day for hurling.
Our last Leinster winning Wexford team had plenty of lads who played both codes.
With Cloughbawn winning the double, Davidstown getting to two finals, Martin's getting to the final in their least perferred code and Shels perennial contenders in both codes, dual is the only way. Anyone who says any different is blaggarding.
beano (National) - 26/10/2026 10:54:47
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Wexford Club Hurling 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 35OLT: "I'm interested to see how this one goes. Lough Lene Gaels have a lot of older Retired county stalwarts in McNicolas (41 years old!) Tommy Doyle and Noel Conaty with a smattering of very good young lads. Hopefully a good appreciative crowd shows up for a good match. Westmeath hurling fans can be a boisterous bunch." Jogger still a top player, top county standard. Hes only 33. David Williams is excellent too, as good a lad at his age as any hurler in Leinster.
Should be a good game, Ill try make it up to give the lads from over the water a bit of support.
Viking66 (National) - 26/10/2026 11:37:38
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WonTon5: "What a performance from young Timmy Madden in the intermediate final yesterday, finished with 0-7 and MoM award. A minor last year, this is his first year playing adult football and to do that for your parish is the stuff dreams are made of. I think Caherlistrane will have enough to stay senior next year, good influx of young players, Richard McGrath and Evan Cunningham at the back look like county prospects. Still a sprinkle of the old heads there and a solid management team. Give them a couple of years and I think they could make a similar impact that Dunmore did a few years back. As for Spideal, you would feel sorry for them because their spine is aging and not much churn of youth coming in a part from Farthing who has stood out as we all hoped he would. An Spideal will be there abouts again next year but Oranmore are another year older and wiser, we all know they are coming. Litir Mor will want to bounce back quickly. MB will have all these Minor lads now eligible but they might need a couple of seasons in the dog fight to adjust. Well done Caherlistrane, a very difficult championship to win." Well done Caherlistrane. Delighted to see a rural team not making the same mistake so many others have made as a result of the sharp decline in numbers, in that they gave the youth priority over the great servants who were getting on a bit. They should indeed be able to hold their own in senior now. Happy to for Salthill who are probably the most "kick the ball" team in it. However, I think the Galway senior club championship was not that strong this year.
giveitlong (National) - 26/10/2026 12:54:02
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Shandonagh's performances just vary too much. Last year they were annihilated by Tubberclair in group stage and while it wasn't a knockout game it didn't look good for their prospects. This year they scraped over Multy when they should easily be beating Multy, they also lost to Malachy's before then hammering Milltownpass and Ballinagore. Today was mystifying as they never got to the pitch of the game. The breeze was worth 5-6 points and yet they trailed by 6 midway through first half. They performed far better in last year's final, size wise they had a light team and today's conditions were suited to strong physical players." Don't think my last message posted. I'd have to disagree about Shandonagh being light and that the conditions suited Milltown more . Milltown won because they had far more desire and determination. From the minute the ball was thrown in Milltown were far hungrier and wanted it way more. They were relentless for the full game and never took their foot off the pedal. Shandonagh looked very lacklustre and disinterested at times. Milltown were tackling and running off the ball in packs all the time whereas Shandonagh lads were looking for someone else to step up. I hope Milltown go on a run in Leinster now because they have a strong team. Playing Offaly finalists first in a game I would expect them to win as long as the celebrations aren't prolonged.
BadgerDog (National) - 26/10/2026 14:12:35
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