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Portumna GAA Club has been crowned the “Best Club under the Sun”, and with it comes a trip of a lifetime to Abu Dhabi.

Waterford native and hurling great Kevin Ryan has been appointed as the new senior and under 21 hurling manager for Carlow. Ryan was ratified at a county board meeting in Carlow last night (Wednesday) and is expected to push the growth of Carlow’s hurling.

Ger Loughnane wrote his own epitaph long before this week’s Galway County Board meeting.

The most invaluable habit to acquire is a winning one. Portumna simply know how to emerge victorious, and yesterday at Pearse Stadium it wasn’t about being slick or stylish, what mattered was substance.

Portumna validated their credentials as Galway’s top hurling club when they claimed back-to-back titles and their fourth in six years.

My brother’s father-in-law, Johnny Carty, is a hail and hearty 80-years-old, a Wexford man (Rathnure) who loves most sports, but especially hurling.

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My brother’s father-in-law, Johnny Carty, is a hearty 80-year-old Wexford man (Rathnure) who loves most sports, but especially hurling.

Since I packed in competitive football the most regular question that I have been asked is:

There was sadness in Tuam and Galway this week with the end of an era for Galway football with the death of the great Frank Stockwell at the age of 80 after a long battle with illness. Frankie was the second member of a foot-balling double act, which was almost as famous and successful as Laurel and Hardy in their prime.