Agree with this. Galway rowing club isn’t a bad spot either.
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Great insight.
Fucking pissing wet fucking rain. Non stop. Soft misty rain that’s able to sustain itself for weeks on end. One time I lived in Galway, it was the third week of my stay before I walked outside when it wasn’t raining. That’s why Galway folk drink so much. They may as well.
There’s nothing wrong with north galway lads 
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I grew up on the line between north and south, and went to school in the city. The (hurling) club rivalry is the best gauge of how the different parts of the county get on. I’d be fairly confident in saying that everyone hates Castlegar. And probably Turlough too. I remember a very strong dislike at underage between Athenry and Craughwell… and Clarinbridge. Probably because most of the fuckers went to school in Athenry.
My mother is from east Galway - only a few miles from the Rossie border. We’d go to football games with my uncle-in-law, a proud Roscommon man. He’d travel in the car with us to the game, but as soon as we’d walk into the stadium he’d make a bee-line for his home crowd. Fucked if he’d listen to a bunch of roasters crowing. Although, might be a case of out of the frying pan…
North Galway and Mayo are indistinguishable. Basically big fuckers who can kick a ball a long way. Traveling N to S you need to hit Claregalway before encountering anything you could call Galway culture. I spent the first year of college trying to avoid a fucker from Kiltimagh, and he had the gall to ask if I’d go to London with him for the summer. Exactly what I needed laying blocks with a Mayo roaster all day.
What’s wrong with south Gaway women? Did you grow tired of them?
That’s most of the clubs covered. You left out portumna, loughrea, gort, and anyone west of athenry. 
I don’t think he knows anything about hurling.
Anyone who failed to mention the Greg lally era of intra-county feuding is on thin enough ice.
I suspect he does, but in true galway style is concentrated only on his own patch of inter-parish hatred.
Ah lovely. 
He is cagey about his loyalty though. If I had to hazard a wild guess I’d say a hurling wasteland like Oranmore, but you never know.
That’s where I had him down. Cant decide whether to be a townie or a redneck, tries a bit of both and often ends up with the worst, i.e. A redneck who can’t hurl.
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He might be able to hurl if he went to a school in the city as he claims. All the city schools have or had hurling teams and even produced the odd good hurler (mostly called Connolly). I’d say he played hurling at a remedial level as @rocko would say.
In fairness, good hurlers in the city schools are few and far between. Gaelic games in my time were an afterthought in the bish and the jes. Sport in general was an afterthought in endas.
Only Mary’s really gave it any credence.
Wasn’t always the case though. Whatever about hurling, (bar Jarleths) Galway city schools produced all our AI football stars. The drift away to association football from GAA had started in my day but I never expected it would get to the stage where there were literally no IC hurlers from the city, but that’s where it’s heading.
If nothing else by bumping this thread I’ve got the Galway lads together for Christmas… Happy Christmas lads.
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And to you and yours mouse.
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Half an hour ago the sky was black, the roof was hopping with the rain, and I thought it was getting dark for the evening. Now there’s a cloudless sky and brilliant morning sunshine.
Have you Galway roots, pal?