Galway stretch their legs in first strides towards title defence

Galway 5-18 Offaly 2-15

Galway’s forwards always looked dangerous and with Kevin Martin intent on pursuing a proactive approach, they made hay as Offaly tired in the final quarter.

In truth, they should have had more goals earlier on and would have but for the magnificence of Offaly netminder Eoghan Cahill, who saved a penalty from a very quiet Joe Canning and then denied the Portumna man with two full-length saves in the second half. He also kept Conor Whelan at bay.