Galway skipper Róisín Black standing on the shoulders of giants

The primary school teacher will captain the county this year, starting off with the launch of their Very League Division 1A title defence against neighbours Clare on Saturday.

Galway's Roisin Black. Picture: INPHO/Tom Maher

For the past four years, Róisín Black has been a teacher at Scoil Mhuire, the same primary school she attended in her home town of Oranmore.

It might have been a tiny bit weird at first, being a colleague of some people that taught her as a child, but she loves everything about it. The profession itself, of course, but the familiarity of the surroundings and its denizens, who have been welcoming and encouraging.