Galway making up for lost time

OVER 50 years after they came close to affiliating with the province, the Galway hurlers make their debut in the Leinster hurling championship on Sunday, when they play Laois in O’Moore Park.

Galway applied for permission to play in Leinster in 1957. However, on the day of Congress they withdrew their application, ‘piqued’ by objections from within the province.

Former great Sean Duggan (popularly known as Seanín) who played inter-county from minor upwards over the period 1939-54, looks back on the episode with a degree of regret.