Insiders murmur that Brian Cody gets more animated over Galway than any others

“I’ve never seen my wife so excited!”

Not the kind of remark by a close friend that you tend to forget. Frank, son of Donegal, is making his way through the crush of a bar in Drumcondra.

August 21, 2005. Why not exult? Galway have just smathered Kilkenny, 5-18 to 4-18.