Don’t change the ball because of Galway, says Donoghue

Micheál Donoghue believes there is no need to rethink the weight of the sliotar in light of his Galway team’s achievement in claiming last year’s All-Ireland title without finding the net in their last four championship games.

The Connacht side was the first to capture the Liam MacCarthy in that manner, rattling off 110 points and no goals from their Leinster semi-final defeat of Offaly on June 18 through to their All-Ireland final defeat of Waterford on September 3.

The only goals they scored all summer came in the provincial quarter-final defeat of Dublin in May when Conor Cooney and Jason Flynn bagged one each in the course of a 14-point win at Tullamore’s O’Connor Park.