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How Donoghue and Galway laid out the blueprint for a championship tilt

To grab and hold attention from January onward meant an off-season of no actual switching off. There was constant cooking. Constant fiddling and finessing.

Galway boss Micheál Donoghue. Pic: Tom O'Hanlon/Inpho

Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 - 04:30

Eoghan Cormican

Galway grabbed attention from that very first January night in Thurles.

Such a statement does not amount to convenient revisionism. Neither is it conveniently building an arc from the opening round of the League to the concluding Sunday of championship.

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