It’s a talent in itself that James Horan can come across as offended even in triumph.

A second win in a fortnight, another performance that didn’t reach the heights of 2018 and a nasty injury have given Kevin Walsh plenty to ponder as this win over Sligo qualifies Galway for the Connacht final.

Martin Farragher came off the bench to score 1-1 in his inter-county debut as holders Galway beat Sligo at Markievicz Park to book their place in another Connacht final.

Beyond Liam Silke and All-Star Ian Burke, former Galway football manager Tomás Ó Flatharta believes the leading figures from Corofin’s back-to-back All-Ireland-winning side will struggle to break onto Kevin Walsh’s Galway team.

It was sometime around 4am on the Sunday morning of the 1980 All-Ireland final when Sean Silke was jolted from his sleep.

Twenty years ago Ray Silke had the unique distinction of leading both his club and county up the Hogan Stand steps to collect senior All-Ireland titles in Croke Park. Two decades on he is still leading by example — but in a very different capacity

It’s exactly 20 years ago that Liam Silke’s uncle, Ray, captained Galway to the All-Ireland football title.

Adding to the growing feelgood factor around Galway football, All-Ireland champions Corofin dominate the inaugural team of the club football championship.

Man, 30, told gardaí he would harm local schoolchildren and wanted to commit ‘suicide by cop’

Former Mayo star Maurice Sheridan described the demands placed on his NUI Galway players as ‘obscene’ and ‘absolutely horrendous’ after their Sigerson Cup final defeat.

Corofin (Galway) 1-6 Moorefield (Kildare) 0-6: Liam Silke’s 59th minute goal sealed a gutsy All-Ireland semi-final win for Corofin in Tullamore having been down to 14 men for 64 minutes.

Corofin’s Martin McNamara is delighted to have Kieran Molloy and Liam Silke available for today’s All-Ireland semi-final, but is disappointed that they have had to sacrifice a Sigerson Cup final, as a result.

UCD and NUI Galway are unlikely to field their Corofin players in Tuesday’s Sigerson Cup semi-finals.

Gardaí in the Macroom area caught a man dealing €11,000 worth of cocaine at a time when he had a suspended jail term hanging over him for another drug-dealing offence.

Leinster SHC semi-final: Galway v Offaly, 2pm ... The emergence of Offaly and Galway as hurling powers in the late 70s had a considerable element of interdependence.

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

GARDENS of quality outside on almost an acre, and space inside to a high standard, all combine to make Carraig Rua quite the catch for families trading up in south county Cork and Carrigaline.

Aqua farm owners off the south-west coast have been warned of a massive bloom of algae which has the potential to kill fish and shellfish stock along with other marine life.

"It will happen again for Galway — it’s just a matter of time."

A blistering second-half start – in which the visitors hit an unanswered 1-3 – powered Mayo to a fifth consecutive championship win over Galway this afternoon.

The head of the GAA in Connacht believes that the football championship should be based on eight teams battling for each provincial title — but he feels none of the other provinces will back his proposal.

Corofin (Galway) 0-09 Tir Chonaill Gaels (London) 0-02

Ray Silke has urged Galway footballers to concentrate on their football and ignore their Twitter accounts as the county faces a battle to avoid relegation to Division 3 next season.

Farmers and householders were counting the cost of a mini tornado which ripped through a rural community.

Galway 1-17 Roscommon 2-11 AET

A Congolese man who beat his heavily pregnant wife with a cooking pot, a pan, plates, glasses and knives in front of their four children was given a three-year sentence yesterday.

A widower has issued an emotional appeal for thieves to return an iPod which is a treasure trove of musical memories of happier times he spent with his wife, who lost her battle to cancer a year ago.

It was the day of the first 70-minute All Ireland final.

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

AFTER an amazing Avonmore Milk Munster Schools’ Senior Cup tie at Cork Institute of Technology yesterday, both sides must battle again for the right to meet either St Munchin’s or Ardscoil Ris in the semi-final.

COROFIN, denied a first ever three-in-a-row of Galway SFC titles last year, advanced to the semi-finals of this year’s title race with a replay win over neighbours Claregalway at Tuam Stadium on Saturday evening.

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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.

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

FATHER, ladies and gentlemen...

FARMERS from the West and midlands outlined the extent of last December’s flooding to European Commission officials in Brussels yesterday.

St Gall’s 1-15 Corofin 1-11 (aet)

THE Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has been urged to start inspections under the Fodder Aid Scheme immediately.

Anxious communities along the banks of the River Shannon were tonight bracing themselves for devastating floods after waters reached record heights.

FARM families, already suffering from falling incomes and a shortage of fodder for their livestock, were bracing themselves last night for more heavy rain and high winds over the weekend.

FARMERS in Ireland are being burdened with unfair and excessive water charges, the Irish Farmers Association has told the European Commission.