Corofin’s Comer seeking to reprise past glories

TWELVE years have elapsed since that glorious season for Galway football when little Corofin won the All-Ireland SFC club championship and the county went on to win Sam Maguire for the first time since the three-in-a-row heroics of the mid-60s.

Both teams were captained by one of Corofin’s most famous sons, one Ray Silke, and it is arguable that the first victory – witnessed by a record crowd of over 36,000 – inspired the second, as Galway football rode a wave that ultimately crested in Croke Park on an unforgettable Sunday in September.

A substitute for Corofin that day was Kieran Comer and tomorrow, his parish are once more on the glory trail as they face Ulster champions St Gall’s in the All-Ireland semi-final at Parnell Park.