Hunger strikes as Galway look to end league famine

THE common perception after Galway’s epic double duel with Tyrone was that the Connacht side had finally rediscovered their appetite for the big occasion. Not so, says keeper Alan Keane. It simply never left.

Prior to the deadlock in Omagh, the jury was still out on whether John O'Mahony's side, so well endowed with talent, could regain the verve and irresistible style of 1998 or 2001.

Last year, Galway reigned in Connacht without ever having to find their stride but eventually bowed out of the championship surprisingly to Donegal in an All-Ireland quarter-final replay at McHale Park.