Galway and Padraic Joyce bid to avoid unwanted hat-trick

This will only be Joyce’s third championship match since he took over from Kevin Walsh in 2019

Galway manager Padraic Joyce at a Galway Football media conference at Pearse Stadium. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Galway will be bidding to avoid losing three Connacht finals in a row for the first time in the modern era when they take on Mayo at Croke Park on Sunday.

It has not happened to them since 1937 when Mayo defeated them three years running — but Galway book-ended the losses with All-Ireland triumphs in 1934 and ’38, while the Green and Red also brought the Sam Maguire Cup west for the first time in 1936.