Galvin optimism finds fertile ground in New York

Far from his native Waterville and even further from the corridors of Croke Park power where telephone number broadcasting deals are struck, there is a Kerryman trying to make a difference in New York.

For all kinds of reasons, that is not an easy feat but Ian Galvin is a man armed with energy and innovation.

He is an optimist too, a pre-requisite for anyone agreeing to a two-year management term that pits New York against Mayo and then Galway in successive Connacht championship openers.