ANOTHER season, another crisis in Galway football.

MICK O’DWYER has been ruled out of the running for the Galway football manager’s job with delegates insisting it must go to a local man.

Tomás Ó Flatharta says that it was 'with extreme reluctance' that he accepted the decision of the Galway GAA clubs to end his term as the county's senior football manager.

THE appointment process for selecting the next Cork senior hurling manager is expected to be overseen by the county board rather than the three-man independent committee used to select Denis Walsh in March 2009.

GALWAY football board chairman John Joe Holleran has refused to comment on former defender John Divilly’s criticism of him and the board.

FORMER Galway star John Divilly has launched a stinging attack on county football board chiefs claiming “the whole system of Galway football is wrong”.

IT SEEMED like a good idea at the time, several years ago, the decision to allow New York play in the Connacht Senior Football Championship, thus keeping the exiles in touch with home base.

WATERFORD’s All Star forward John Mullane will be unavailable for the remainder of his county’s Allianz HL Division 1 campaign as he prepares for his wedding tomorrow week.

The chairman of the Galway football board has come out strongly in support of manager Tomás Ó Flatharta amid speculation that the reign of the Kerry native might be coming to an end after just months in charge.

THE chairman of the Galway football board has come out strongly in support of manager Tomás Ó Flatharta amid speculation that the reign of the Kerry native might be coming to an end after just months in charge.

THE chairman of Galway football board has denied there is a crisis in the county and he has hit out at former All-Ireland-winning captain Ray Silke for claiming that there is trouble in the camp.

THERE is growing speculation in Galway that football bosses may go outside the four candidates already interviewed to take over as Joe Kernan’s successor.

FORMER inter-county hurling referee Willie Barrett, who was struck by a man wielding a hurley last April, has abandoned a club match in South Tipperary for the second time in four months.

POLITICS, money and sport are a poor mishmash. One invariably spills into the other and things can go sour quickly.

Galway are on the lookout for their third senior football manager since 2007, following Joe Kernan's decision to resign from the post he took up just last September.

FEW in the 5,000 at the Galway SFC semi-finals last September who gave Joe Kernan a rapturous welcome when, in an impromptu moment by football board chairman John Joe Holleran, he was introduced to the crowd, could have envisaged the Tribesmen’s 2010 championship would implode in such a dramatic fashion.

SITTING cold and numb, physically and emotionally, in the stand at Pearse Stadium last Saturday after yet another one point defeat to supposedly inferior opposition, it did not take long for my mobile to start bleeping.

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THE difficulties being faced by the GAA in the recession has been illustrated with Galway Football Board reporting a 50% drop in money raised through fundraising and a further 25% reduction in the amount received from sponsorship and commercial activity.

Joe Kernan was officially ratified as the new Galway senior football manager last night, succeeding Liam Sammon on a three-year term.

JOE KERNAN was last night appointed the new manager of the Galway senior football team.

THE chairman of Galway Football Board has rejected reports that Liam Sammon was forced to step down as manager because of player power.

LIAM SAMMON has opted to walk away before his third year in charge of the Galway footballers, informing the 2009 panel of his decision on Wednesday night.

DERRY GAA chiefs last night hit out at “unfounded rumours” that Paddy Bradley had left the county football panel – and said he will be back at training tonight.

GALWAY football is mourning the loss of one of their finest players following the death yesterday of Frank Stockwell.

Aer Arann announced as new sponsor of Galway GAA county football team.

THE campaign to open up Croke Park to soccer and rugby continues to gather momentum this week with a significant number of counties pledging their support for the relaxation of Rule 42.