Return to Galway football a culture shock for Clancy

NEW YEAR’S in Sydney is different. They celebrate it in a bombastic yet laid-back way, so typical of the city itself.

The fire-works display is unlike anything you have ever seen, but amid the heaving mass of humanity on Circular Quay or the Rocks, it is just you and your mates.

Paul Clancy experienced it only a few months ago. Watching the Harbour Bridge turn a hundred different shades, the fortunes of Galway football belonged to a different world a world that offered Clancy a horrid re-introduction one notorious afternoon in Tuam several weeks ago.