Mulholland still has belief in Galway

Outgoing Galway manager Alan Mulholland believes the county’s football team is on the brink of a breakthrough despite his decision to stand down after three years in charge.

“I do feel a breakthrough is going to come very soon,” he said yesterday. “It is a very hard thing to hand it over, but you can’t be selfish about these things. You can’t hold onto them just because you’ve done a lot of work over the last while.

“Whatever is best for the group of players and for Galway football is what we want to do, and we think at the moment this is best for them. Possibly the likes of Paul Conroy, Gary O’Donnell and Gareth Bradshaw need someone else to listen to in the dressing room because they have been listening to me long enough at this stage,” he told Galway Bay FM.