Pat McDonagh hoping Galway can satisfy All-Ireland hunger
Pat McDonagh first sponsored the Galway hurlers in 1989, the year after they had won their second All-Ireland hurling title in a row. Little did he think that he would be still backing them nearly three decades later and that the Tribesmen would still be looking for their fifth ever Liam MacCarthy triumph.
It was a natural development for McDonagh to get behind the Galway hurlers in ’89. By then, the Supermac’s fast-food business he had founded with his wife Una in Ballinasloe in 1978 had started to really develop and expand. Sponsor’s names were not on the front of jerseys then, that only happened a couple of years later, but McDonagh’s backing for his
