John Commins is hopeful that Galway will end their All-Ireland hurling famine this weekend.

The Gort man was goalkeeper when the Tribesmen last won the Liam MacCarthy Cup in 1987 and '88, and believes the long wait is nearing an end.

"The shoulders are getting heavy now at this stage, carrying it. It has been too long since we won a senior title," Commins - a selector with the Galway minor team that will face Tipperary in the Croke Park curtain-raiser - is quoted in the Irish Sun.

"This bunch of lads, they were there in 2012 so there is no reason why they can't win. They'll have to beat the best team in the country for the last how many years, but they have the opportunity.

"People are saying Kilkenny are unbeatable - no team is unbeatable. At some stage they will have to get beaten. Hopefully, it will be this year.

"I have been a sales rep for 25 years and the first question is, 'What is happening with ye?' If I got a euro for every time I answered that, I would be a millionaire.

"There have been lost opportunities. There have been games we should have won and didn't. With the current bunch, most have been there in 2012, they have the experience of a final. They know what it is like to sit in the dressing-room after losing an All-Ireland. Please God they will know on Sunday what it is like to sit in one having won an All-Ireland.

"People ask me about the past. The past is going to have no reflection on what happens on Sunday. Once the ball is thrown in, the game takes on a life of its own."

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