A foot in both camps: Former Galway player and Dub selector wants native county to raise intensity

In the large room upstairs in Galway football’s training centre in Loughgeorge, there used to be a plaque of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper hung up on the wall. It could still be there now but the joke was it was a dig at Dublin’s 12 Apostles of 1983.

Thirty-five years on, the game reverberates as much as the likes of Brian Talty prefer to keep in the past, Talty having been unable to line out in the second half following an incident in the tunnel at half-time. Earlier, Brian Mullins had been dismissed for swinging a hand at him.