Inside Track with John McIntyre

REFLECTING on the year almost past, Galway’s reputation as the most successful sporting county in Ireland continues to be well-founded, despite neither of the Tribesmen’s flagship GAA teams even reaching the All-Ireland championship semi-finals.

Having been defeated finalists twice over the previous three seasons, there was genuine belief that the Galway footballers could go that important step further in 2025 and when Padraic Joyce’s team captured a fourth Connacht title on the trot, it should have set them up for another major crack at Sam Maguire.

But defeat to Dublin on home turf in the first round of the qualifiers........

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