When Niall Finnegan laid down the law

"I was much more a kick up the ass kind of guy," recalls former Galway star of 1998 semi-final win over Derry

Galway’s Niall Finnegan in action in the Connacht SFC at Páirc Smárgaid in Ruislip, London, in June 1999. Picture: Damien Eagers/Sportsfile

“It was a pressure kick. But the best comes out of people sometimes when the pressure is on”  

- John O’Mahony describing Niall Finnegan’s equalising free in the 1998 Connacht SFC final v Roscommon