Pat Kearney blasts 'non-factual reporting' as he holds onto chairmanship in Galway

“The abuse the officers have got on social media in the last three months is not acceptable.”

Pat Kearney tonight hung on as chairman of the Galway county board, defeating challenger Mick Culhane by 146 votes to 110.

Culhane, a member of Pádraic Joyce’s Galway U20 football management team this year, had promised to bring Galway GAA into the 21st century, but failed to secure sufficient support among delegates to unseat the incumbent at the county convention in Salthill.