Wily Kevin Walsh can rightly take the plaudits for this win, writes Ray Silke.

Donaghy’s been unlucky, but so have other Kerry forwards

My first permanent teaching post was in St Gerald’s College, Castlebar, 20 years ago this September.

The traditional lethargy of the losing provincial finalist was on full display on Saturday evening.

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Corofin (Galway) v Slaughtneil (Derry)

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final: Corofin (Galway) 1-14 St Vincent’s (Dublin) 1-9: Strange as it sounds now, there was a time when Corofin were regarded as a defensive team. The Donegal of the Galway club scene.

MY brother Brian was corner back for the Galway minors in 1986 when they beat Cork in the All-Ireland final. Later that afternoon Kerry beat Tyrone in the senior game. Brian is 45 now and in the intervening 28 years Kerry have since failed to defeat an Ulster team in an All-Ireland senior final.

All-Ireland SFC winners Ray Silke, Brian Mullins, Jimmy Deenihan and Pat Spillane are amongst the stars set to be inducted into the University of Limerick’s Sports Hall of Fame later this month.

Columnist, Ray Silke, identifies the three key areas which saw Donegal emerge victorious in Sunday's Ulster clash of the titans.

In the match programme at Elverys MacHale Park yesterday, Kerry’s Bryan Sheehan was asked what were his hopes for the future of Kerry football?

Cork dual star Eoin Cadogan faces a difficult choice the weekend after next — the Leeside hurlers face Offaly on July 7 in Páirc Uí Chaoimh while the next day, July 8, the Cork footballers face Clare in the Munster SFC final.

Carney: Years at the top have taken their toll

Despite the shocking scenes from last Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final between Kerry club Dromid Pearses and Tyrone’s Derrytresk, many people within the wider GAA community accept a ‘melee’ as part and parcel of our games, claims Ray Silke .

“Consistency? We can hardly spell the word in Galway and there has been none in recent times.”

JUST imagine what it is like to be singled out on a regular basis as being the last man to lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup for your county.

ANOTHER defeat for Galway, then, but the visitors didn’t leave Newry last night without attempting to dispel the rumours of discontent that followed them to Ulster earlier in the day.

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.

GALWAY football was last night battling reports of discontent in their ranks after co-captain Kieran Fitzgerald and midfielder Niall Coleman quit the panel.

FORMER All-Ireland winning Galway captain Ray Silke has expressed concern about the way football in the county is run.

FATHER, ladies and gentlemen...

TWELVE years have elapsed since that glorious season for Galway football when little Corofin won the All-Ireland SFC club championship and the county went on to win Sam Maguire for the first time since the three-in-a-row heroics of the mid-60s.

DURING the last couple of weeks I have noticed that most of the sports pages in the Irish Examiner contain articles written by former players and managers.

Sir,

Ray Silke

ALL-IRELAND winning manager John O'Mahony last night left his post with Galway, a year ahead of schedule, citing a strong desire for a break as the principal reason.

ENDA COLLERAN, the last winning All-Ireland Galway captain in 1966 until Ray Silke lifted the Sam Maguire Cup 32 years later was remembered yesterday as a defender of outstanding quality who "lived life to the full".

THE Meath County Board confirmed they will hold an election for the position of senior football manager.

FOOTBALL dominates the AIB club championship calendar this weekend with action in all four provinces.

Corofin 3-11 Annaghdown 2-2

VAL DALY would probably have had something very different to say instead of wishing everybody ‘Happy Christmas’ after leading Mountbellew to victory over Milltown in the Galway football championship of final of 1986.

Galway's former All-Ireland winning captain Ray Silke has announced his retirement from inter-county football.