Solid win buoys Galway Women

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Galway WFC head to Morton Stadium in good form for Women’s FAI Cup action on Saturday.

Shelbourne, fresh from their Champions League exploits, are the opponents, but Galway will be hoping to take their recent league form into the cup, run out 5-1 winners on Saturday afternoon in their Continental Tyres WNL clash with Kilkenny United at Eamonn Deacy Park.

A triple win for Bocquet

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Craughwell wheelchair athlete Shauna Bocquet enjoyed brilliant success at the England Age Group Championships in Bedford recently.

Football championship hots up with four quarter-finals

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

St James’ v Mountbellew/Moylough (Sat 6pm in Tuam Stadium)

Corofin march into county quarter-finals

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Reigning county champions Corofin will play Moycullen this weekend in the quarter-final of the county championship after keeping their ‘drive for five’ alive when overcoming last year's finalists, Salthill/Knocknacarra by 1-18 to 2-12.

Connacht ready to sample South African rugby 'braai'

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Connacht will get their first taste of southern hemisphere club rugby on Saturday when they host the Southern Kings at the Sportsground.

Demand for new Connacht Rugby stadium continues to grow

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Off the pitch CEO Willie Ruane says plans on a new stadium are progressing, but there is frustration at the speed of developments.

Grant Thornton becomes official partner of Connacht Rugby

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Professional services firm Grant Thornton has become an official partner of Connacht Rugby for the next two years.

Family-run Murray Timber continues partnership with Connacht Rugby

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

County Galway's Murray Timber Group has extended is partnership with Connacht Rugby for another four years.

Official partners for the past three years, Murray Timber Group will continue to be displayed on the Connacht Rugby home, away and European playing jerseys.

Connacht unveil striking new jerseys for the season

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Unveiled at the Sportsground in Connacht's win against Bristol, the new away and European kits are bold and bright for this 2017/18 season.

Masterful Micheál makes Tribesmen’s dreams come true

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

It is the question Micheál Donoghue always dreamed of being asked, and not long after the full time whistle was blown in Croke Park last Sunday, he tried to put it into words what it felt like to be All Ireland champions.

Famine ends as MacCarthy Cup comes west again

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Galway supporters lucky enough to have been in Croke Park on Sunday afternoon witnessed history being made with the county winning its fifth senior All-Ireland hurling title - their first since 1988 when Conor Hayes led the team to All-Ireland glory.

A win that had family at its heart

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

It was something else, something raw tugging at so many heartstrings.

Lynskey’s minors come good in second half to see off Cork

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

At the smoothly run and enjoyable homecoming for both minor and senior teams in Pearse Stadium on Monday, Galway minor hurling manager Jeffrey Lynskey quoted the old Meat Loaf classic “Two out of three ain’t bad” to describe Galway’s terrific 2-17 to 2-15 win over Cork in the All-Ireland minor final.

Homecoming was reward for a generation who never knew success

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Out they came in their thousands, in a weekend that saw fifty thousand shades of maroon on every street in the city and county.

Lynskey hails minors’ hard work and commitment

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

In the three years he has been in charge of the Galway minor hurlers, Jeffrey Lynskey has guided two different groups of young Tribesmen to the top of the game at their level.

Tribesmen bring Liam home in style

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

At times it was sparkling, others nerve wracking, but at the end of the day it was just brilliant as Galway ended a 29-year wait to bring the Liam MacCarthy Cup west of the Shannon for the fifth time.

Three minutes in it looked like they might do it the easy way, hitting Waterford for three points in the opening 180 seconds, but once Kevin Moran got in behind the Galway defence and drove the ball low past Colm Callanan in the Galway goal to kick life into what looked like a startled Waterford, it was game on.

‘I believe numbers 27 to 34 won this All Ireland for us,’ says Cooney

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

Taking slugs from a water bottle, still dripping in sweat from the effort of battle a short time earlier, Joseph Cooney sat patiently alongside manager Mícheál Donoghue under the Hogan Stand on Sunday evening.

Keane seeks more structured attack as South Africans make first visit to the Sportsground

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

A mouth-watering and historic first Guinness PRO 14 fixture between Connacht and South African side Southern Kings takes place at the Sportsground on Saturday (7.35pm).

Fantasy Football round four preview

Wed, Sep 06, 2017

The Premier League is back. Irish fans will be delighted to be returning to domestic matters after the international team had a dreadful week, drawing against Georgia and losing to Serbia.

That winning feeling is still sinking in

Sun, Sep 03, 2017

So this is what it feels like.
Savour it.

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