sorry grapes I just returned from a joint and posted in the wrong thread, ah sureâŚ
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Any truth in what Iâm hearing about the County Board looking for contributions to the training fund before they release tickets?
cc @KinvarasPassion @Lazarus @gaillimhmick
No. All the tickets have been flaked out equally to all clubs without prejudice.
I heard the tickets were distributed and there was no mention of any conditions.
Someoneâs over-egging the ticket request to me so
They had a fundraiser night up in the Loughrea Hotel and it was 250 a head with a guaranteed ticket. Otherwise clubâs got tickets as usual
You sorted kp?
Congrats to the Galway girls in winning the U16 AI championship.
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This thread deserves a bump.
Well done to all the Galway lads.
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Thanks Geoff. Mighty sound gesture.
Again well done to Galway yesterday .
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Thanks lads, we are deleriously happy. One of the finest of the ever increasing Nogra contingent recommended this place and I drank the shit out of it all afternoon. Outstanding pint of Guinness and a very welcome low key ambience.
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Here, have a ânice replyâ badge, pal. Delighted for you with the win
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Joe Connolly: âItâs been demeaning for our manliness to be questionedâ
Former Galway captain relieved class of 2017 have finally emulated team of the 80s
about 8 hours ago
Ian OâRiordan
Joe Connolly: âItâs mad that itâs been that length of time for a start but itâs great that it has come around at long last.â Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Not since delivering his own All-Ireland-winning speech has Joe Connolly sounded this passionate, or indeed pleased, about Galway hurling.
Because whatever about the 29-year wait, what Sundayâs victory ended more than anything else was the sense of failure and embarrassment Connolly has been feeling in times since.
âQuestion our location, question our structures, question our skills, but our character and our manliness? Thatâs the one that got us, that got me.
âItâs embarrassing like. Your heart is in your county, pride in your county and what pundits have said about us over the years, itâs demeaning for our manliness to be questioned.
âWhatever about our ability, it absolutely grates that people question that when you pull this maroon jersey down over your head like, that youâre not at a mental state like the big counties or the other counties. Thatâs what bugs me more than anything and I hope to God that after Sundayâs performance, there might be a new breed of Galway hurler coming through.â
Strong words yes, but coming straight from the heart.
For Galwayâs 1980 All-Ireland-winning captain, an All Star centre forward that same year, this then was a victory not a long time coming but coming not soon enough. Typical of Connolly, he holds court with a natural air of grace, speaking impromptu in the lobby of the team hotel a CityWest.
âThe stats since we won the last senior in 1988 that we had won 10 minors and six U-21s and 12 All-Ireland club championships. Thatâs mad stuff without winning an All-Ireland to back it up. Itâs mad that itâs been that length of time for a start but itâs great that it has come around at long last.
âItâs our own fault in Galway. We have sat back and taken it. We have sleep-walked through about 30 years in Galway, I believe. We havenât been at the races as regards preparation and whatever like that.
New generations
âWe had to make a statement. We as past players would so gladly hand the laurels back to these. Galway Bay FM had a programme last Wednesday and there were five of us on it and Noel Lane was one of them. He made the comment that, âlook who is up here; Joe Connolly, Conor Hayes, Cyril Farrell, Pete Finnerty, Noel Laneâ⌠weâre fed up of being the spokesmen for Galway hurling. We should be the teams that people longingly look back on in the past and say, âwasnât it greatâ.
âWe donât want to be at the fore of talk about Galway hurling. Itâs for new generations to take over the mantle. When you finish your career, all you have are the teams youâve played with. Itâs hurt greatly for the last decades to see the failures and good lads.
âWe havenât been ambitious enough, we havenât been hungry enough in Galway. Weâre a rich county, thereâs plenty of employment in Galway, thereâs two third-level institutions. We have superb structures in clubs. We have a quarter of a million of a population. We shouldnât be picking up All-Irelands every 30 years and the reason we havenât is that itâs our own fault.
âI was at an IRUPA dinner in Dublin a couple of years ago, the Irish Rugby Professionals like, and there were 10 people at the table, Dublin professionals, and four of them came down during the night and said, âJoe, whatâs wrong with Galway hurling?â I would walk out with my head down, that thatâs the perception thatâs out there.
âWeâre a proud county. The Westâs Awake, that song is about Munster and Leinster coming together in the 13th century to fight against Connacht and we ran ye, through Curlewâs Pass and Ardrahan. We ran the Normans, which was ye lads from Munster and Leinster. It isnât âcroppy lie downâ as regards Galway and Iâm bloody glad that that manifested itself this year at Croke Park.
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One of the Galway snobs I was referring to yesterday.
Heâs fucking far from it.
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Have you met @grapes mate?
Grapes, ironmoth, ironmoth, grapes.
Heâs a good lad but not the brightest. Very very edgy.
Read that passage above mate. Thatâs identity snobbery. More Irish more deserving than the rest of us. That type of snobbery is the most common type in Galway. The most conceited type.