Crisis talk has Hanley scratching his head

ANOTHER defeat for Galway, then, but the visitors didn’t leave Newry last night without attempting to dispel the rumours of discontent that followed them to Ulster earlier in the day.

It was the midweek defections of joint-captain Kieran Fitzgerald and Niall Coleman that first raised the suspicion that all was not well in the Connacht side’s camp following the dispiriting opening loss in Monaghan.

Subsequent comments from former All-Ireland-winning captain and Irish Examiner columnist Ray Silke fanned the flames further and few were doused by county football chairman John Joe Holloran’s stringent denials a day later.