'Lights are part and parcel of winter hurling': Galway chair defends decision to change senior final to floodlit venue

Galway county board moved both the senior football and hurling semi-finals and finals into the floodlit Salthill venue on four successive Saturday evenings across October and the beginning of November

Moycullen supporters celebrate under the lights at Pearse Stadium after the football final. Pic: Tyler Miller/Sportsfile

Galway chairman Paul Bellew has defended the decision to stage this Saturday’s county senior hurling final under lights - a first for Galway’s showpiece hurling fixture.

In this the maiden year of floodlights being operational at Pearse Stadium, the county board moved both the senior football and hurling semi-finals and finals into the floodlit Salthill venue on four successive Saturday evenings across October and the beginning of November.