Rochford not surprised ‘hugely talented’ Corofin in decider

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final: Corofin (Galway) 1-14 St Vincent’s (Dublin) 1-9: Strange as it sounds now, there was a time when Corofin were regarded as a defensive team. The Donegal of the Galway club scene.

Maybe that’s the legacy of having an All-Ireland winning captain back boning your defence, Ray Silke. Or maybe they were just playing to their strengths. Either way, the message sent out to Michael Lundy as a youngster growing up in the club was pretty clear.

“It was, ‘we’ll concede less than you will and we’ll win the game that way’,” recalled Lundy.