Me man in Glenalbyn tells me had surgery the week before Clontarf game and is out for the whole champo
A damning indictment anytime Barna get to any sort of non-relegation knockout. The county is fucked lads.
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Shows how important Comer is to Annaghdown. They had to drag him one legged out of his wheelchair last year to save them in the relegation play offs. This year heâs been fit and playing and they topped their group.
Some vaunted clubs looking to avoid treks to foreign fields next yearâŚ
It can be a cutthroat business if a few things go against youâŚ
From Galway to New York, Johnny Glynn is still making a difference
No-nonsense hurling star who won All-Ireland title, Lory Meagher Cup and Nicky Rackard Cup is relishing new role as vice-chairperson of New York GAA
Glynn captained New York to the Lory Meagher title 2025 then the Nicky Rackard Cup in May this year
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Christy OâConnor
The week before the All-Ireland hurling final in July, Johnny Glynn was deeply immersed in a world he was completely removed from when Galway had last reached an All-Ireland final in 2018. Back then, Glynn was a player. As vice-chairperson of New York GAA now, Glynnâs primary duty was the allocation of tickets. A job nobody ever really wants was handed to the ideal candidate. Similar to his authority and huge physicality as a player, nobody was going to mess with Johnny Glynn.
He drew up a list. Every one of the 100 tickets given to the New York board was accounted for. Everybody entitled to a ticket was rewarded; clubs, sponsors, members of the board and the minor division. The criteria was black and white but one fella rang Glynn chancing his arm with a plea. Glynn hadnât heard from him in a year. He rarely saw the man in Gaelic Park. âI told him to shove it [his request for tickets] up his hole,â says Glynn.
The bottom line has always been the bottom line with Glynn. A spike in temperature doesnât necessarily mean a burning, just a frank reminder that the right way is the only way in his world. There was a time when nobody even knew how many All-Ireland tickets the New York county board received, or where they ended up. That wasnât happening on Glynnâs watch.
âThe only reason Iâm doing this [vice-chairperson role] is so that everything is transparent and is being done right and fairly to my knowledge,â says Glynn, 33. âI donât beat around the bush. It might be controversial to say but I got involved a few years ago because there was stuff going on that not everybody agreed with. Iâd hate to be known as someone who would give out and then do f*** all about it. I said Iâd go in and try and make a change for the better. I think I am.â
Glynn started out as development officer and has been the vice-chair for the past two years. Outside of his day job, his time as an officer is heavily occupied with meetings, planning and fundraising. And yet Glynn has still made time to cement his status as a truly unique player in the history of the GAA.
A year after captaining New York to the 2025 Lory Meagher title, Glynn led the Exiles to the Nicky Rackard Cup in May. Along with the All-Ireland he bagged with Galway in 2017, Glynn is the first player to have won three different national senior GAA hurling championships.
History hasnât just placed a full stop there because no other player has played in as many national senior championship competitions; having also lined out for the New York footballers in the Tailteann Cup and in the Connacht championship, his involvement in the National hurling league and the Leinster senior hurling championship has bumped up Glynnâs participation numbers to seven senior championship competitions across the past decade. In both codes.
Glynn, centre, in action for Galway against Limerick in the 2018 All-Ireland Senior Championship Final
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The first imprint Glynn made in New York was as a footballer, lining out in the 2016 Connacht championship against Roscommon, a match New York agonisingly lost by one point. When New York sensationally defeated Leitrim after penalties in 2023 to finally win a first game in the Connacht championship, Glynn captained the side.
âWinning that game was probably the equivalent of New York winning the All-Ireland,â says Glynn. âEveryone stormed the pitch afterwards. We had five starters that day that were born in the US. That would have been unheard of in the past. The joy in being part of that, and being captain, was indescribable.â
Glynn has been living in New York now since 2015. He and his then girlfriend, and now wife, Serena, boarded a flight three days after Glynn played on the Galway team that lost the All-Ireland final. The Big Apple became their home but the ties were harder to cut for Glynn when he was still in the prime of his playing career.
Glynn spent three years between 2017 and 2019 flying back to play for Galway, featuring in two All-Ireland finals during that period. âPeople say itâs not sustainable but itâs a mentality thing as much as anything else,â he says. âItâs not easy but I donât think itâs impossible either. The hardest thing I had to do was get to the airport.â
Glynn was named as a New York football selector for the 2020 campaign but he would have continued to try to play for Galway if the pandemic hadnât got in the way. He didnât have a Green Card at the time and all visas were frozen for two years. After Glynn returned to play with Ardrahan in the 2023 Galway club championship, Henry Shefflin enticed him back with Galway for the 2024 Leinster championship. Glynn came on in four of their five matches, playing 66 minutes, but Galway failed to qualify from the province. âIt didnât work out but I had no regrets,â he says. âI was delighted to get an opportunity to go back and play for Galway.â
When MicheĂĄl Donoghue returned for a second term last year, he spoke with Glynn. âWe did talk but going over and back wasnât a runner,â says Glynn. âItâs a lot harder to fly over and back at 33 than 23. At this stage of my career, what Iâd add to the group more than anything would be bringing a positive attitude to the dressing room. If youâre not there to do that, I donât think my skill level would be enough to compensate. Life waits for no one, but if I could still do it, I still would. If MicheĂĄl rang me again in the morning to explore the option, I would find it very hard to say no.â
Glynn has funnelled that commitment into New York over the past two years, becoming an integral part of New Yorkâs modern GAA lore. Their teams have benefitted hugely from his experience, but Glynn has still had to listen to thunder around the legitimacy of his involvement.
The 33-year-old and his wife Serena welcomed their first baby, Sadie, earlier this year
âThere was a lot of shite said and written that I shouldnât be playing tier 3 and 4 hurling,â he says. âAt the end of the day, Iâm living in New York now for 12 years. It pisses me off when lads say I shouldnât be allowed to play for New York when Iâve been part of New York GAA longer than I have been an adult player in Galway. Iâm living here and Iâm very fortunate to be able to bring whatever experience I have to a group of players. What is unfair about that?â
Home now is in Yonkers, near Bronxville. Life has never been better since Glynn and his wife welcomed their first baby, Sadie, into their lives four months ago. Glynn has always been very open in talking about how the couple had been through multiple miscarriages, an ectopic pregnancy and several rounds of IVF treatment.
âIt was a tough few years but it has just been incredible since Sadie came along,â says Glynn. âWeâre very lucky, but thereâs an awful lot of people still going through it. Maybe take a positive thing out of us. We were there. We have a child now. Keep going. It is worth it beyond words.
âWeâre just so happy. Serena was always meant to be a mother. She is in her element because it is all she ever wanted. She deserves it. Serena is such a selfless person. Only for her, I would never have been able to do what I did. Iâm trying to take a step back now but Serena would probably say that I havenât.â
His life is more hectic than ever. The construction trade is booming in New York. Glynnâs work as a project manager/estimator with Topline Drywall takes him all over the city and into New Jersey. The biggest job Glynn is overseeing is trying to finish 500 apartments in the Bronx by November.
As well as hurling for Hoboken, playing Junior football with Galway and drafting up to play senior with Sligo, Glynn is always on hand to help out around Gaelic Park; cleaning up before and after matches, organising events, operating as a linesman, umpire or fourth official. He referees the odd match. His role as vice-chairperson has a whole different focus again around fundraising and trying to finish off the redevelopment of Gaelic Park.
âI love making a difference in whatever I do, be it work, with a team, on the board, whatever,â says Glynn. âMaking a difference for the better. I like to think that I am always trying to do the right thing. I do get a buzz out of that.â
For someone who is so much a part of GAA history, there has rarely been source material for reference around Johnny Glynn. He has always been an original
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Andrew Carney, son of former RTĂ The Sunday Game presenter Jim Carney, died unexpectedly over the weekend.
The beloved teacher and GAA clubman died suddenly at just 49, leaving a Galway community devastated.
Andrew was an English and History teacher at St Jarlathâs College and a hugely respected member of Tuam Stars GAA club.
His death has prompted an outpouring of tributes from friends, colleagues, students and sporting clubs.
Tuam Stars described Andrew as âa wonderful clubman, but much more importantly, a wonderful personâ.
The club said he was a friend, mentor and source of encouragement who gave huge amounts of his time to players, coaches and the wider community.
St Jarlathâs College closed on Monday as staff and students mourned his death.
The school described Andrew as âthe most kind, generous and thoughtful soul you could meetâ, praising his influence as a teacher, mentor and football coach.
Andrew was also a passionate actor and playwright, performing his own one-act play The Prodigal for almost a decade.
He was also a committed advocate for mental health awareness and volunteered with Tuam Mental Health Association.
Local councillor Ollie Turner described Andrewâs death at 49 as âunfathomableâ, remembering him as a brilliant teacher and life coach who had influenced hundreds of students.
âHe was a superb actor and playwright,â Turner said. âAndrew will be mourned and missed by many.â
Tributes have continued to pour in for a man remembered for giving so much to his community.
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His âSam, Galway and The Twelve Apostlesâ one man monologue during the Covid Galway Fringe Festival was well worth a watch. RIP.
Galway Senior Football Management Update
Galway GAA can confirm that PĂĄdraic Joyce is stepping down as the Galway Senior Football Manager after seven years in charge.
Appointed to the role in October 2019 ahead of the 2020 season, the Killererin clubman has given stellar service over the past seven years to Galway Football as team manager. Under his leadership, Galway Football rebuilt consistency with the squad transformed into perennial championship contenders.
PĂĄdraic re-established Galway as the standard bearers of the province, capturing four consecutive Connacht Senior Football titles (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025). He also steered the Tribesmen to All-Ireland Senior Football Final appearances in 2022, their first final in 21 years and again in 2024. Before managing, PĂĄdraic was one of Galwayâs most prolific forwards during a glittering 15-year inter-county career.
We extend heartfelt thanks and genuine appreciation to PĂĄdraic and his management team for their leadership, dedication, commitment and want to acknowledge the lasting impact they have made over the past seven years driving Galway Football forward to compete at the highest level.
Read statement in full⤾ď¸
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Fairwell PJ and thank you for your time. Got us so close in â24. That day will haunt Galway football for a while.
It was time for him to go.
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Loughrea motoring nicely @mikehunt. That Dara Shaughs is class
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PĂĄdraic Joyce left Galway in a better place than he found them but the sense of wasted promise will linger
Very few counties had the raw materials at Joyceâs disposal but far too often they werenât able to close out crucial games
Fri Sept 04 2026 - 12:42â˘5 MIN READ
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For all of their abundant talents at both ends of the pitch, PĂĄdraic Joyceâs Galway teams routinely failed to kick on when critical games were in the balance. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Of all the things that will pick away at PĂĄdraic Joyce now that he has stepped down as Galway manager, maybe the one that will annoy him most is that they were good enough to be better. Some managers leave teams knowing they got the very last drop out of the players available, some walk away knowing they hadnât the tools in the first place. Joyce wouldnât have much truck with either assessment here.
In the seven seasons he was over Galway, five different counties won the All-Ireland. Of those five, Kerry are the only team Galway didnât beat in a championship game somewhere along the way. Armagh, Dublin, Tyrone, Mayo â Joyceâs Galway teams were well fit for each of them on a given day. They knocked Donegal out in Jim McGuinnessâs first year back, put Derry to the sword in 2022 when they were clearly a coming force.
And yet in the past two seasons, the only teams theyâve knocked out of the championship have been Westmeath this year and Down last year. They went out at the quarter-final stage to a middling Dublin team this summer and surprise package Meath in 2025. They coughed up winning positions both days â six up with 15 minutes to go against Dublin, three up with eight left on the clock against Meath.
If you want to pick a theme of the Joyce era, thatâs definitely one of them. For all of their abundant talents at both ends of the pitch, his Galway teams routinely failed to kick on when critical games were in the balance. Even in their two All-Ireland final appearances, they were right there in the mix in the last 10 minutes against Kerry in 2022 and Armagh in 2024 but didnât get it done.
PĂĄdraic Joyce steps down as Galway football manager
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Thatâs probably why it all feels a bit unfulfilled, now that Joyce is leaving. Itâs not necessarily because they didnât lift Sam Maguire, although thatâs invariably the metric by which the two-time All-Ireland winner will measure his time. Itâs more that they too often seemed to slither out of the championship, watching from the sidelines as teams with fewer premium players to call on forged onwards.
Galway manager PĂĄdraic Joyce celebrates with his daughter Jodie and son Charlie after the 2025 Connacht final win over Mayo in Castlebar. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
The sense of wasted promise will linger. Galway are the only team this decade to have had four different players shortlisted for Footballer of the Year. Theyâve had four different players on the shortlist for Young Footballer award too, all in the past five years. Beyond those, they were able to call on All Stars in the shape of Damien Comer, Rob Finnerty, Dylan McHugh and the rest.
In fact, Joyce ends his time having managed the same number of players to All Stars (10) as were on the Galway teams he starred for around the turn of the century. Whatever they lacked during his time, the raw materials were demonstrably in place to go further than they did.
He probably could have done with a bit more luck, itâs true. His first season was the Covid year and Galway were flying in the league that spring, top of the Division One table on March 1st. They never got out of the traps when they came back in October, losing their last two league games and going into the Connacht final undercooked after Sligo had to give them a Covid-enforced walkover. They still only lost to Mayo by a point.
Comer was only fit for the last 20 minutes of that game, laid low for neither the first nor last time by uncooperative hamstrings. If you wanted to pick another theme from the Joyce era, thatâs high on the list too. Comer, Shane Walsh, SeĂĄn Kelly, Matthew Tierney â all of them missed significant time with injury. Finnerty had to come off after just 10 minutes of the 2024 final against Armagh. Matthew Thompson was the big find of 2025, only to miss 2026 entirely.
But then again, as Joyce repeatedly said when asked, everyone gets injuries. Galwayâs tended to attract attention because of the names involved, but you have to get up and get on regardless. The environment he fostered didnât make the Galway dressingroom a place for excuses and Joyce never put a tooth in it when talking about his team and their potential and his expectations of them.
PĂĄdraic Joyce talks to Donegal manager Jim McGuinness after a league game in 2025. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inpho
There was a league game against Dublin in 2025 where he whipped off Finnerty on 32 minutes and Walsh at half-time. Simpering cowards that we are in the press corps, we offered to Joyce afterwards that maybe the lads might have had a knock or two? Nope. âThey missed about 2-10 between them, so we had to get someone to try and score on to the pitch.â
Harsh? Maybe. Spitting truths? Absolutely. If you want a third and final theme of the Joyce era, thatâs it. He never pretended to be anyone else. He is remembered as a prince of a footballer, stylish as hell with a wand of a left foot. But he was a flinty winner above all else and he had very little time for the notion of Galway being mediocre also-rans.
After they won Sam in 2001, Galway made it back to just one All-Ireland semi-final in the next 18 years until Joyce took over. In only eight of those years did they even make it to the quarter-final. They went out of the championship to Westmeath, Meath, Wexford, Antrim, Tipperary and a pre-McGuinness Donegal. They were never a factor at the business end of things.
Joyce came in at the back end of 2019 and immediately started talking about All-Irelands. This, remember, was at a time when Dublin had just completed a five-in-a-row and everyone else was a mile back the road. He never saw it out but he led them to two finals, as well as putting together their first Connacht four-in-a-row since the 1960s. By any measure, he has left them in a better place than he found them.
That would satisfy most people. But PĂĄdraic Joyce isnât most people. Heâs still only 49 and the job feels unfinished. It wouldnât be a shock if he came back for another swing at it somewhere down the line.
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SHC group winners and quarter finalists
Tommy Larkins
Clarinbridge
Sarsfields
Athenry
SHC preliminary quarter finals
St Thomasâ v Gort
Turloughmore v Liam Mellows
Ardrahan v Craughwell
Loughrea v Castlegar
SHC relegation play offs
Killimordaly v Moycullen
Oranmore Maree v Cappataggle
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IHC group winners and quarter finalists
Skehana-Mountbellew Moylough
Meelick-Eyrecourt
Ballinderreen
Tynagh-Abbey-Duniry
IHC preliminary quarter finals
Kilnadeema-Leitrim v Mullagh
Kilconieron v Ahascragh-Fohenagh
Portumna v Rahoon-Newcastle
Ballygar v Killimor
IHC relegation
Beagh v Carnmore
Padraig Pearses v Kinvara
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A fine summation. I still maintain one decent goalie would have gotten Galway over the line at least once.
Iâve thrun my name in the hat anyway and fired off an old CV to them.
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Myself and @neilld have been put forward by Fr. Griffins as joint-managers. We have accepted this nomination and will await the response of Galway GAA.
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Excellent, I think we should bring all triallists and their girlfriends warm weather training. Thereâs a lot of talent in Galway and we need to spread the net wide.
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Tuam Sthars, Dunmore and Millitown all gone in Galway championship.
SFC Quarter finals
Salthill-Knocknacarra v Oughterard
Corofin v Monivea Abbey
Annaghdown v Claregalway
Maigh Cuilinn v Mountbellew Moylough
SFC relegation final
Caltra v Naomh Anna Leitir MĂłir
IFC Quarter finals
Caherlistrane v Glenamaddy
Menlough v Micheal Breathnach
Oranmore Maree v St Brendanâs
St Michaelâs v An SpidĂŠal
IFC relegation final
Cortoon Shamrocks v Kilkerrin/Clonberne
Primary Junior North Board final
Headford v Athenry
Primary Junior West Board final
Kinvara v Fr Griffinâs Eire Og
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Great chance for Claregalway or Annaghdown to make a semi final. Both will fancy it.
Not many would have picked Monivea Abbey for a quarter final spot.
The other games look likely to run to script unless MM can spring a surprise. They were impressive today.
If Caltra go down itâll be the second year in a row the intermediate champions go straight back down.
Kilkerrin Clonberne v Cortoon is a huge shock in the intermediate relegation final.