Galway senior and minor hurling managers Micheál Donoghue and Jeff Lynskey are the latest to reveal they too have received hate mail, with Lynskey having contemplated contacting the gardaí, such was the abuse recently directed at a board official over a player not being included in his minor panel.

Micheál Donoghue believes there is no need to rethink the weight of the sliotar in light of his Galway team’s achievement in claiming last year’s All-Ireland title without finding the net in their last four championship games.

Galway’s defence of the Liam MacCarthy Cup has been handed a timely pre-championship boost with the news that attacker Jonathan Glynn will be based in Ireland for the summer and, therefore, available for the county’s summer campaign.

September is long gone now. The last strains of ‘The West’s Awake’ have petered out on the cold winter winds as a New Year clears its throat but still the hurlers from Galway continue to rack up the prizes.

Joe Canning struck 1-5 for the home side, including two sideline cuts and a first-half goal.

Galway hurling manager Micheal Donoghue will unveil his new management team when he meets the players for the first time this evening.

Cunningham was ousted from his position by senior players.

Six people have been nominated to take over from Anthony Cunningham as manager of the Galway senior hurlers.