Micheál Donoghue: We had lucky escape in Carlow

Micheál Donoghue knows how Galway’s February draw with Carlow was framed in some quarters.

Micheál Donoghue: We had lucky escape in Carlow
Fri, 10 May, 2019 - 07:20
Brendan O'Brien

Micheál Donoghue knows how Galway’s February draw with Carlow was framed in some quarters.

The 2017 All-Ireland champions started just six of the players who had claimed the Liam MacCarthy for them two Septembers before, their ranks weakened by injuries and players abroad and the path St Thomas’s were taking to their own All-Ireland decider.

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