Person: Sylvie Linnane

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Weekend TV highlights: Monty Python, Niall Tóibín and All-Ireland Gold

Here are our top TV picks for today.

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GAA emoji quiz: Can you name these ten Galway hurlers?

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Re-examining the 1980 All-Ireland final

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Fingerprints of Hopper McGrath’s Galway all over current side

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Galway Hurling plunged into mourning as former Hurler of the Year Tony Keady dies

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Pete Finnerty still vexed at 1989 semi-final ref John Denton

Taaffe schooled in Galway but Clare to the core

Growing up, Eamonn Taaffe’s life was defined by difference. What made him as a Clare native this and what made them, those from over the Galway border that backs onto his family house, that.

Fri, 22 Jul, 2016

Galway board hoping backroom reshuffle will appease players

Galway County Board officials are hoping the possibility of alterations to Anthony Cunningham’s backroom team will appease the players and persuade them to get behind the manager.

Wed, 07 Oct, 2015

Time for Galway and Jason Flynn to escape the shadow of history

Jason Flynn was reared on tales from the 80s; nothing but stories to cling to as he hurled countless All-Ireland finals against the gable end above in Ballinakill.

Sun, 06 Sep, 2015

Shouldn’t Government make this a Bank Holiday weekend?

On Thursday, Stephen Sheedy and I went up to Athenry to have a look at the greyhounds and drop off a few tickets to Gerry Holian.

Sat, 05 Sep, 2015

Galway wounds from 10 All-Ireland final losses reopened

It is 40 years this weekend since Galway returned to hurling’s high altar, their 1975 All-Ireland final appearance bringing to an end the county’s 17-year wait for a September sojourn to Jones Road.

Fri, 04 Sep, 2015

Greg Lally fully convinced Gort can stun Ballyhale

AIB All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final: Gort v Ballyhale: Gort hurling captain Greg Lally is the team’s indisputable leader since the emigration of former captain Andy Coen to Canada last year and he will be expected to lead the side from centre-back in tomorrow’s All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final against Ballyhale Shamrocks.

Sat, 07 Feb, 2015

Listen to the thunder and pay no heed

Those first trips down — ‘82 and ‘85 — I travelled without pressure. No big calls to make. That was the oul fella. Or maybe the uncle, if he’d landed first from Dublin. Go by Limerick and the cursing wouldn’t start until Charleville.

Mon, 07 Jul, 2014

Stalwart Linnane livid over Galway’s lack of defensive clarity

ALL-IRELAND SHC QUARTER-FINAL:

Fri, 26 Jul, 2013

Who will lay down the early marker?

Check back over the videos of Galway’s three Championship wins over Brian Cody’s Kilkenny and there are common threads.

Sat, 08 Sep, 2012

Why will Galway win? Dallas

Perhaps most vitally, they boasted then a certain dash of JR’s winning lawlessness.

Sat, 08 Sep, 2012

Tribe must develop killer instinct

Pete Finnerty had a neat way of summing up Galway’s failings a few years back.

Sat, 07 Jul, 2012

Gort keeping low profile despite great local buzz

Gort chairman Martin Kerins confounds your opener pretty quickly.

Sat, 11 Feb, 2012

Fahy out to put Portumna’s ‘champagne hurling’ on ice

OLLIE FAHY, remember him? The former Galway senior forward is now 33 and off the inter-county scene for a few years but is still going strong with his club.

Sat, 01 Nov, 2008

Allen concentrating on the present despite whispers of the ’70s

Talk of the three-in-a row increases with each game for the Cork hurlers. Jim O’Sullivan sounds a warning.

Sat, 05 Aug, 2006

GAA honours farm families' contribution

PEOPLE who were not even born when Tom Cheasty was playing hurling for Waterford sought his autograph in Kilkenny at the weekend.

Wed, 22 Feb, 2006

Farming families’ contribution to GAA honoured

PEOPLE who were not even born when Tom Cheasty was playing hurling for Waterford sought his autograph in Kilkenny at the weekend.

Tue, 21 Feb, 2006