Fitzmaurice appointed new Galway manager

Thu, Oct 01, 2026

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has been announced as the new Galway senior football manager for a three-year term.

THE FULL FORWARD: Champions Loughrea face another stern test

Thu, Oct 01, 2026

The race for the Tom Callanan Cup reaches the quarter-final stage this weekend, with the four group winners re-entering the fray alongside four teams already battle-hardened from surviving the first hurdle in do-or-die hurling.

THE FULL FORWARD: Familiar foes collide in last eight

Thu, Sep 24, 2026

The race for the Frank Fox Cup reaches the quarter-final stage this weekend with four intriguing ties, three of which are repeats of group meetings from only 12 months ago.

THE FULL FORWARD: Heavyweights take the long route

Thu, Sep 17, 2026

All four of last year’s Galway Senior Hurling Championship semi-finalists find themselves taking the elongated path to Tom Callanan Cup success, facing into preliminary quarter-finals this weekend.

THE FULL FORWARD: Knockout football takes centre stage

Thu, Sep 10, 2026

The safety net is no longer available. After three rounds of group action, the Galway Senior Football Championship moves into knockout territory this weekend with four preliminary quarter-finals down for decision.

THE FULL FORWARD: Business end beckons

Thu, Sep 03, 2026

The final round of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship arrives with plenty still at stake, from direct quarter-final or preliminary quarter-final qualification to the less appealing prospect of entering the relegation series.

THE FULL FORWARD: Final round has plenty at stake

Thu, Aug 27, 2026

The final round of group games in the Galway Senior Football Championship arrives with plenty still to be decided across all four groups.

THE FULL FORWARD: Pressure rises in Round Two

Thu, Aug 20, 2026

After an opening round dominated by tight finishes, Round 2 offers several teams an early opportunity to take control of their groups in the Galway Senior Hurling Championship.

The Galwaywomen who dared to dream – 1975 Galway Senior Ladies' Team

Sat, Aug 15, 2026

There are some teams whose greatest achievement is not measured by the trophies they lifted, but by the paths they cleared for those who came after them. The Galway senior ladies' football team of 1975 belongs firmly in that category. They may not have returned home with the Brendan Martin Cup, but they carried something every bit as valuable – hope, pride and the belief that Galway women deserved their place on the biggest stage of Gaelic football.

THE FULL FORWARD: Pressure rising in round two

Thu, Aug 13, 2026

Just one round into the Galway Senior Football Championship and the pressure is already mounting. For those beaten on the opening weekend, another defeat would leave qualification hopes hanging by a thread.

LIVE BLOG - ALL IRELAND SENIOR CAMOGIE FINAL

Sun, Aug 09, 2026

All over - and Cork have won 2-14 to 0-19. Too little too late for a determined and brave Galway side who nearly came back. Galway's reign has ended. Congratulations to Cork. Safe home, everybody. 

Keeper is coming up for the last shot. We need a goal to win it. She takes a point.

THE FULL FORWARD: Familiar foes, familiar stakes

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

Galway and Cork have become the defining rivalry of modern camogie, repeatedly pushing one another to new standards on the sport’s biggest stage. Seven of the last nine All-Ireland senior titles have been shared between the west and Leeside. On Sunday, one of them will add another chapter to a rivalry that continues to shape the current era of the game.

The agony and the ecstasy — Dramatic finale as Tribeswomen deliver on biggest stage

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

Twenty-two years is a long time to carry expectation, disappointment and memory. Long enough for children who watched Galway lift the Brendan Martin Cup in 2004 to return to Croke Park on Sunday with children of their own. Long enough for dreams to harden into burdens, for near misses to become scars, for every promising generation to be measured against the one that had gone before.

Galway Rapparees’ five-from-five dream rolls on

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

Galway City Rapparees have achieved something few clubs in GAA Rounders can ever dream of – five teams entered, five teams into the All-Ireland semi-finals.

Oughterard crowned All-Ireland 7s champions

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

Oughterard LGFA claimed the O'Neills All-Ireland Intermediate Club 7s title last weekend.

‘Pressure isn’t the enemy’

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

Every child who has ever picked up a hurl or football has played out the same fantasy. A late free. One last chance. A strike to win an All-Ireland final before climbing the Hogan Stand steps to the acclaim of thousands and lifting the trophy as team captain. Last August, Carrie Dolan lived that dream.

Still counting opportunities, not medals

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

There has never been a more decorated Galway Gaelic games player across the men’s and women’s senior inter-county codes than Ailish O'Reilly. Four All-Ireland senior medals for a player who on Sunday will be chasing a coveted five. Nobody has collected more senior Celtic Crosses while starting every victorious final for a team in maroon.

Murray : 'You just want to do it for as long as you can'

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

Cathal Murray has spent the best part of a decade trying to make Galway camogie better. The remarkable thing is that, nine seasons on, he still talks about the job with the enthusiasm of someone in his first year.

‘That was some way to win it’

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

“That was some way to win it?”
It was the first question I asked Cathal Murray in the bowels of Croke Park last year, moments after Galway had somehow dragged themselves over the line against Cork. His smile betrayed the exhaustion. The relief. The knowledge that his team had emptied every last drop of themselves onto the sacred turf.

Galway hit another gear since first round upset

Thu, Aug 06, 2026

Galway’s opening round defeat to Cork would have stung, but the Tribeswomen have channelled that disappointment to produce some of their finest performances since.

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