Galway’s Callanan learning fast at the shut-out school

A FEW weeks ago in the quarter-final of the Leinster SHC between Galway and Wexford, we were treated to some magic.

Wexford’s Rory Jacob bore down on Colm Callanan in the Galway goal and struck shot back across the Galway keeper, headed for the top corner. A goal was exactly what Wexford needed at that stage but Callanan’s reaction was instantaneous – the hurley came up, the ball was tipped, out wide for a 65.

“As good a save as I’ve ever seen,” said Wexford captain Diarmuid Lyng, and yet, says Colm, not the best save he has ever made.