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There are some teams whose greatest achievement is not measured by the trophies they lifted, but by the paths they cleared for those who came after them. The Galway senior ladies' football team of 1975 belongs firmly in that category. They may not have returned home with the Brendan Martin Cup, but they carried something every bit as valuable – hope, pride and the belief that Galway women deserved their place on the biggest stage of Gaelic football.

Galway 1-8 0-18 Cork Group 1 Round 1

Galway’s opening round defeat to Cork would have stung, but the Tribeswomen have channelled that disappointment to produce some of their finest performances since.

Galway and Cork have become the defining rivalry of modern camogie, repeatedly pushing one another to new standards on the sport’s biggest stage. Seven of the last nine All-Ireland senior titles have been shared between the west and Leeside. On Sunday, one of them will add another chapter to a rivalry that continues to shape the current era of the game.

THE SHAUGHRAUN

After Survival Saturday, it is as you were at the base of the Premier Division.

Galway 3-25 Kilkenny 1-16

There are matches that decide championships, and there are matches that define generations. The 1980 All-Ireland Hurling Final belonged to the latter. On a warm September afternoon in Croke Park, Galway defeated Limerick by 2-15 to 3-9 and, in doing so, ended a wait that had stretched back to 1923.

The Galway Vindicator of November 24, 1863 reported that “The completion of the Grattan Road will add much to the beauty and salubrity of the handsomest of our suburban districts. The embankment being made by Miss Grattan will reclaim 28 acres of land which is now a swamp, but which will become, with little cultivation, some of the most fertile ground in the neighbourhood. In the past season of distress, Miss Grattan has given great employment to the poor of the neighbourhood in making this road and embankment. Since June last, up to the present time, there have been over 200 labourers employed and from 12 to 14 masons regularly. It will, when finished, alter the appearance of Salthill and contribute much to make that favourite place one of the nicest locations in the kingdom”.

No doubt with a nod to the USA’s 250th birthday last week, Druid Theatre’s 2026 season is called ‘Strange Country: Ireland in America’.