Shane Walsh has rubbished rumours that he is switching clubs again.

The Galway attacker transferred from his home club Kilkerrin-Clonberne to Kilmacud Crokes in 2022 and won an All-Ireland club SFC medal with the Dublin giants just five months later. He is now been linked with either a move to Salthill-Knocknacarra or Mayo champions Ballina Stephenites, speculation he describes as ‘quite annoying’.

“You hear these things of moving to Salthill and moving to Ballina. With the Salthill stuff I was like, ‘Where is this coming out of?’ Walsh told the Sideline Live podcast.

“I was getting calls when I was out in Portugal, ‘Are you moving to Salthill?’ and I’m like, ‘Why would I move to Salthill?’

“I’m not from Salthill, I was never from Salthill, I’m not living in Salthill, I’m living in Dublin. If I was going home to Galway, I’d be going home to my own club. I wouldn’t be going somewhere else.”

Walsh, who took a lot of flak over his high-profile transfer to Crokes, added: “The odd thing pops up on social media when such a certain player is transferring club and it’s my head stuck in the middle of it, even though I have nothing to do with it.

“I did it a couple of years ago and automatically it keeps getting drawn on to this image of me being there.

“It is quite annoying because I did the same as lots of other players are still doing at this present time, moving clubs and stuff like that for whatever reasons they have themselves.

“And I’m sure they’re all worthy of it. At the end of the day, that’s all it was.

“That’s kind of the annoying thing, that you’re just being painted with this brush.”

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