Galway inflict first defeat of 2018 on depleted Dubs

Galway boss Stephen Glennon is keeping his team grounded despite victory over All-Ireland champions Dublin in yesterday’s Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 tie at Abbotstown.

“All that we were looking for, and I know it’s a bit of a cliché, is the performance,” he said after their 1-17 to 1-15 win — Dublin’s first defeat of the 2018 season.

“We just wanted to measure up and see where we were at and stay in the game as long as we could. And the girls did that. Maybe Dublin’s preparations coming into this game were disrupted with the All-Star trip — where we’d one on it, Sinead Burke, and they had 10 on it.”