Drop in attendances and turnover of little significance in the overall scheme of things at Galway

ATTENDANCES may have been down, as was bookmaker turnover, but this was still a cracking Galway.

It had to come that the extravaganza would finally stop breaking every record in the country and that time has finally arrived.

Crowd figures may have been down by three per cent and bookmaker turnover by less than five per cent, but they are really of little significance in the overall scheme of things.