Anthony Daly: Galway are capable of taking this championship by the throat

In 2017 and 2018, you could hand-pick Galway’s main leaders but the guys who are running this team now are the Mannion brothers, Conor Whelan, and Brian Concannon

Galway's Conor Whelan and Mark Coleman of Cork. Whelan is a real leader for Shane O'Neill's side, Anthony Daly writes. Picture: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

With this being the first weekend of the summer open in our pub Murty Browne’s, I asked for it off from RTÉ co-commentary and analysis duty. Thankfully, we were up the walls all day Saturday and yesterday, but I was still intent on watching as much hurling as I could.

We have a TV in the beer-garden but, being based in west Clare, there was no way I was going to win that battle between hurling and football, with Clare and Mayo playing a Division 2 league semi-final in Ennis. The locals weren’t having any hurling on the TV ahead of that match, especially when the hurlers had played on Saturday. Any requests for England and Croatia in the Euros weren’t even entertained.