Conor Neville: Galway get off surfboards to make it a contest

Over the past few years, no team has served as the stooge for Joe Brolly’s talent for scathing dismissal more than Galway.

During last year’s quarter-final defeat against Kerry, he compared their zeal for victory to the zeal with which Rose of Tralee contestants prosecute their stated objective of ‘world peace’.

Though it is more usually Miss World contestants who roll out world peace as a key policy objective. Rose of Tralee candidates tend to be less ambitious in that respect (wouldn’t it be delightful if a Miss World contestant forsook the usual plea for world peace and instead urged that the local authority in their area get to work on that swimming pool?).