The Galway Senior Football team to face Westmeath on Sunday is announced

Date: Sunday June 2nd

Venue: TEG Cusack Park at 3.00PM

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Match Commentary on Galway Bay FM and RnaG Spórt.

Live score updates via WhatstheScor App on our X feed and social channels

Game is not broadcast on TV or streamed.

Best of Luck to Pádraic Joyce, Team Management and our Senior Football squad!

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All-Ireland SFC Group One

Galway 2-14 Derry 0-15

By Billy Coss at Pearse Stadium

Second half goals from Seán Kelly and Céin D’Arcy were the key scores as Galway made a winning start to Group One of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship against 14-man Derry in Salthill this evening.

Already minus Padraig McGrogan due his recent cruciate ligament injury, Derry also started with two more key defenders in Conor Doherty and Eoin McEvoy. Their chances suffered a further hammer blow on 21 minutes when All-Star centre half-back Gareth McKinless received a straight red card.

The recently crowned three in-a-row Connacht champions led for the bulk of contest and turned around armed with an 0-8 to 0-6 interval advantage. Top scorer Rob Finnerty kicked three points and man of the match Paul Conroy two as Derry were left to rue several chances that drifted wide or dropped short.

Though Mickey Harte’s side briefly drew level early in the second half after Conor Glass and Lachlan Murray efforts, Kelly’s 42nd minute finish at the second time of asking created scoreboard separation that the winners would protect to the finish. John Daly, Shane Walsh, Liam Ó Conghaile and Conroy also landed important second half points.

Derry battled valiantly while a man light and a fruitful mini-spell brought two more for Murray either side of a Brendan Rogers point that moved them to within three.

In the 63rd minute Galway ‘keeper Connor Gleeson saved Shane McGuigan’s powerful, but centrally struck shot before play swung to the Árus Bóthar na Trá end and Daniel O’Flaherty and D’Arcy worked the match-sealing goal palmed home by D’Arcy.

Galway travel to Westmeath next, while Derry host Armagh.

Scorers for Galway: Robert Finnerty 0-4 (2fs), Paul Conroy 0-3, Seán Kelly and Céin D’Arcy 1-0 each, Shane Walsh and John Daly 0-2, Johnny Heaney, Matthew Tierney and Liam Ó Conghaile 0-1 each.

Scorers for Derry: Shane McGuigan 0-4 (2fs), Lachlan Murray 0-3, Ciáran McFaul 0-2, Paul Cassidy, Emmett Bradley, Conor Glass, Donncha Gilmore, Brendan Rogers and Ethan Doherty 0-1 each.

Galway: Connor Gleeson; Johnny McGrath, Seán Fitzgerald, Jack Glynn; Dylan McHugh, Liam Silke, John Daly; Paul Conroy, Matthew Tierney; Johnny Heaney, John Maher, Seán Kelly (captain); Robert Finnerty, Damien Comer, Shane Walsh.

Subs: Céin D’Arcy for Comer inj (47), Cillian McDaid for Maher (58), Daniel O’Flaherty for Kelly (62), Cillian Ó Curraoin for Finnerty inj (65), Liam Ó Conghaile for Heaney (67).

Derry: Odhran Lynch; Conor McCluskey, Christopher McKaigue, Diarmuid Baker; Brendan Rogers, Gareth McKinless, Ciarán McFaul; Conor Glass (captain), Emmett Bradley, Ethan Doherty, Paul Cassidy Declan Cassidy; Lachlan Murray, Shane McGuigan, Niall Toner.

Subs: Donncha Gilmore for Declan Cassidy (HT), Eunan Mulholland for Toner (48), Cahir McMonagle for Murray (67), Shea Downey for McFaul (70).

Referee: Brendan Cawley (Kildare).

The Galway Senior Football team to face Derry in the All-Ireland Football series opener tomorrow is announced

Galway v Derry

Pearse Stadium at 5.30 PM

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Game in on GAAGO

Match Commentary on Galway Bay FM and RnaG Spórt.

Live score updates via WhatstheScor App on our X feed and social channels

Best of Luck to Pádraic Joyce, Team Management and our Senior Football squad!

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Important Match Day Information

On behalf of Galway GAA and the Pearse Stadium Committee we welcome all GAA Supporters to Salthill tomorrow 18th May for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship game between Galway V Derry, which will throw-in at 5.30pm.

This game tomorrow Saturday will result in increased traffic in Galway, Salthill and Pearse Stadium areas and we urge all Supporters to arrive early, in order to avoid traffic congestion and potential delays entering the Stadium.

This is an all-ticket game and no tickets will be available to purchase at the ground on the day. Tickets can be purchased on line and in Centra and SuperValu Supermarkets in advance of the game. Please have your tickets available for scanning as you approach the Stadium.

Turnstiles will be open for the Terraces at the Main Entrance on Rockbarton Road and Arus Bothar na Tra on Dr. Mannix Road. Entry to the Stand is via the gates at the back of the stand. All Gates will open at 4.00pm.

There are ample Car Parks in Galway City and Salthill and we encourage patrons to use these car parks and walk or take public transport to/from Salthill.

Car Parking will be available to the public at (Coláiste Éinde) St.Enda’s Secondary School on Threadneedle Road. H91 X798

Again, we ask all Supporters to arrive early, and to park legally and responsibly.

Finally, we appeal to all Supporters to be conscious, mindful and respectful to the needs of our neighbours and local residents.

In Summary:

1. Please ensure that you buy your ticket in advance. (No tickets for sale at the ground)

2. Please travel with care and arrive early.

2. Please Park legally and responsibly.

3. Please be respectful and mindful of the needs of Local Residents

4. Enjoy the game

Thank You for your co-operation and your support.

The opening fixture in the All Ireland Series for our Senior Footballers is now confirmed

The GAA have introduced a new group stage package for supporters for €50. It offers them the chance to buy all three matches for the price of two.

Please note that the student/OAP rate will be available to purchase on-line and in Centra/SuperValu.

We are continuing or policy of no sales at match day venues. All tickets need to be purchased in advance. Cash is accepted in Centra/SuperValu outlets. 

By Cian O’Connell

Galway manager praised goalkeeper Connor Gleeson following Sunday’s absorbing Connacht SFC Final at Pearse Stadium.

A lively second half unfolded at the Salthill venue with Gleeson capping a determined Galwegian revival, converting the winning free deep into additional time.

Joyce was asked to sum up the best moment of the occasion following the game. “Obviously the final whistle,” he responded.

“Great satisfaction, at the end of the day it’s a Connacht title, valued very highly up here.

“We were given no chance going into the game, a lot of talk about it. One thing I say, you can never question the character of these boys and the way they train.

“We’ve had a troubling year with injuries and whatnot, the loss of form as well trying to get every one right. I wouldn’t be overly happy with the performance, but when you beat Mayo in the Connacht final, it was great, the character shown by the lads was fantastic.

“I’m delighted for Connor Gleeson with that winner because he has sometimes been ridiculed and laughed at here in Galway over the last couple of years, for some reason. But by God did he stand up today and become a man.”

Gleeson nailed the 76th minute free which proved to be the decisive blow. “He had one or two hairy moments today, he wasn’t as clean as the grass or anything,” Joyce added.

“He was fantastic. To step up there at the end, he wanted that ball. He put his hand up, we had spoken about it before the game because Shane (Walsh) can’t kick the frees off the ground with his injury. He said I’ll step up, I’ll take them.

“In fairness, he put his hand up, walked up and struck it well.”

How difficult is to protect players from criticism? “Nowadays you can’t,” Joyce says.

“There are people out there, they can just pull out their phones and send a message on social media and it is all over the place, unfortunately.

“That is the world that’s in it. We let it in the left ear and out the right ear. I say to the lads, all that matters is what is in our four walls.

“If we can get ourselves right, we’ll have no one to blame at the end of the year only ourselves if we don’t get where we want.”