Litmus test for Galway Ladies
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
The Galway :Ladies footballers are looking for three wins on the bounce when they entertain Kerry at Duggan Park, Ballinasloe on Sunday (1pm).
Read more ...President Michael D celebrates with Galwegians RFC
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins will be the guest of honour at Galwegians RFC’s forthcoming gathering on St Patrick’s Day to celebrate the club’s 90th anniversary.
Read more ...Moycullen face Neptune in final game
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
Moycullen conclude an enthralling season of Superleague basketball with a trip to Cork to face Neptune on Saturday evening.
Read more ...Moycullen face Neptune in final game
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
Moycullen conclude an enthralling season of Superleague basketball with a trip to Cork to face Neptune on Saturday evening.
Read more ...A new era for Galway soccer as SD Galway open league campaign
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
League of Ireland football returns tomorrow night with the newly named SD Galway FC making the short trip to Lissywoolen for a tussle with Athlone Town.
Read more ...Connacht prepare for Edinburgh attack as old friends renew rivalries
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
Old friends become rivals tomorrow evening (7.30pm) as Edinburgh make their first visit to the Galway Sportsground under former Connacht coach Michael Bradley.
Read more ...St Mary’s clash with newcomers Headford in schools’ cup final
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
Two Galway schools will contest the 2012 Umbro FAI Schools’ Connacht Senior A Cup final tomorrow.
Read more ...Galway hurlers open new league season with eye on the future
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
The Galway hurlers will face the defending league champions Dublin on Sunday in the opening round of the Allianz Hurling League 2012 at 2.30pm in Pearse Stadium.
Read more ...Connacht prepare for a physical battle with in-form Warriors
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Connacht return to the Galway Sportsground where they face home fixtures over the next two weekends that will prove crucial in determining how their season concludes.
Read more ...Bish four in a row
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
St Joseph’s College, Galway, have claimed a fourth successive All Ireland basketball title when they cruised to a comfortable 53-31 victory over Douglas Community School in the u-16 A boys cup final recently.
Read more ...Daly defends kickboxing crown
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Gort kickboxer Eric "the shadow" Daly will make a mandatory first defence of his IKF European super lightweight kickboxing title on Sunday in the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway.
Daly will take on the current IKF English champion Garthy Shove from Kent which will be preceded by an Ireland v England team event on the undercard.
Read more ...Top scorer Enos expected to return for Moycullen
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Moycullen hope to welcome back top scorer Luke Enos to the line-up this weekend when they travel north to face a resurgent Belfast Star in Saturday night’s Superleague basketball action.
Enos, who is among the Superleague's highest scorers with 24.3 points per game this season, has been sidelined with an ankle injury for the past month. And coupled with the injury to Stephen Tummon, Moycullen have been left without a centre in their three previous games.
Read more ...New Galway kettlebell club
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
A new club has been set up in Galway to teach the growing sport of kettlebells.
Read more ...Wegians frustrated
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Galwegians moved up one place in the Ulster Bank League division 1B table, but they are still hovering just three points clear of the relegation zone despite a 27 - 22 bonus-point loss to promotion hopefuls Ballymena on Saturday.
Read more ...Ladies register first win
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
The Galway ladies footballers bounced back from their opening league defeat at the hands of Mayo to register their first win when overcoming Waterford by 1-13 to 1-8 in Carrickbeg on Sunday.
Read more ...Gort fall to Coolderry goals
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Galway hurling champions Gort had a disappointing outing in the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday afternoon in the All-Ireland club semi-final when they found the Offaly champions, Coolderry, too good on the day, losing out on a score-line of 3-16 to 0-17.
Read more ...Cats too strong for inexperienced Galway
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Kilkenny boss Brian Cody likes to make statements of intent and by recalling many of his big guns and giving Galway a nine-point trimming last Sunday at Pearse Stadium, 2-20 to 1-14, he laid down a small marker for the year.
Read more ...Galway footballers lucky to get a draw
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
After the buzz and excitement of the big win over Derry in round one of the NFL, it was back to reality last Sunday in Pearse Stadium when the Galway footballers were fortunate to get a point from their tie with Louth.
Read more ...Glory for Clonbur
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
The footballers of Clonbur wrote and their club into the history books of the GAA last weekend when they became the first Connacht team to win the All-Ireland junior title after an exciting contest with Derrytresk from Tyrone.
The fact that the Naomh Pádraig club which has been ravaged by emigration over the past two decades only won by the narrowest of margins, 1-08 to 1-07, and only went ahead for the first time in the last two minutes of the tie, made the victory all the sweeter for the players and their loyal supporters.
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