New-look Galway get spring in step

Happy days for the Galway senior hurlers in Portlaoise on Saturday afternoon after this Allianz Hurling League Division 1A relegation replay, their top division status maintained for another year, Dublin demoted to 1B just a year after being crowned champions.

Happy days also for rookie manager Anthony Cunningham, his new-look side beginning to come together.

“It was a difficult league; we went within a puck of a ball of being in a semi-final but found ourselves in a relegation game. A slightly off-colour display against Waterford cost us but look, we got two great matches [against Dublin] to set us up for the championship.