John McIntyre
Sports Editor at Connacht Tribune
Sports Editor of the Connacht Tribune and honorary Life President of the sanctuary for worn out and broken down hurling team managers!
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3 weeks ago |
connachttribune.ie | John McIntyre
Inside Track with John McIntyreCOMING down the home stretch at Celtic Park last Sunday, the prospect of the unthinkable happening was only too real. Galway footballers were on the ropes; fighting for their championship lives against a team playing like demons in trying to salvage something from an awful season. Derry were in Galway’s faces from the off. Bringing a physical edge to the contest, they were holding nothing back.
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3 weeks ago |
connachttribune.ie | John McIntyre
WE have been here before. Eight times, in fact, since Galway’s landmark move east to compete in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship for the first time in 2009. Sunday’s provincial decider at Croke Park (4pm) will again throw up Leinster’s most familiar final pairing over the past 16 years as Galway strive to halt Kilkenny’s quest for the six-in-a-row.
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3 weeks ago |
connachttribune.ie | John McIntyre
Derry 2-20Galway 4-14SOMEHOW, Galway are still standing in the All-Ireland senior football championship after this mad-cap, chaotic if utterly absorbing Group 4 qualifier at Celtic Park on Sunday. The Tribesmen came perilously close to a shock defeat against a team which hasn’t won a competitive match all year and only for a brace of late Matthew Tierney goals, Padraic Joyce’s squad would already have been the big casualties of the qualifiers.
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3 weeks ago |
connachttribune.ie | John McIntyre
A former Olympic Games bronze medallist has made a sensational start to a new discipline on the water. For Galway’s Fiona Murtagh made light of her inexperience as a singles sculler at the European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria over the weekend. The 29-year-old produced a stunning performance to claim the silver medal behind hot favourite, Great Britan’s Laurn Henry, in the final on Sunday.
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1 month ago |
connachttribune.ie | John McIntyre
Galway 0-29Dublin 3-15HOLD your horses: maybe, the outcome of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship isn’t a done deal after all. For Galway are storming up the tracks, as underlined by this statement championship victory over Dublin – a first on opposition soil – at Parnell Park on Sunday in a de-facto Leinster semi-final.
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