Independent Galway

29/07/2024

The team is travelling home to Galway today, with the players due to arrive in Tuam Stadium shortly.

Galway city and Tuam will host a homecoming today for the Galway senior football team and management following yesterday’s All-Ireland Final that saw them losing 0-13 1-11 against Armagh.

29/07/2024

"There’s huge character on this team, huge resilience, they’ve always shown that. One thing they’ll do is always die with their boots on."
Galway Camogie

The record books will show Galway scored seven points in the first half of Saturday’s Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie semi-final against Tipperary and then 1-5 in the second 30 minutes of action at UPMC Nowlan Park, but while there was only a point in the difference (1-12 to 1-11), manager...

29/07/2024

Here’s how we rated every player from an exciting and frenetic conclusion to the football season 👇
Galway GAA

Armagh delivered the county’s second All-Ireland football success with a one-point victory over Galway at Croke Park in a frenetic decider. Here’s how we rated every player from an exciting conclusion to the football season.

29/07/2024

Billy Coonan can enjoy red-letter day in the saddle as week-long Ballybrit jamboree kicks off in fine style once again.
Galway Races

Anyone who tunes into the Galway Festival each summer will have become accustomed to seeing the green and grey colours of Annette Mee being carried to success, and this year will be no different.

29/07/2024

Galway’s road engineers have been wrestling with gridlock for decades

Galway is in party mode as its international arts festival featuring theatre, circus, street art, Macnas-style spectacle and talks about “who we are and what concerns us” segues into a week-long race meeting at Ballybrit — kick-started by “Summer Vibes” in the city’s medieval streets.

29/07/2024

"It's a shame after beating the best team, Dublin. But I will say congratulations to Armagh. Like ourselves, they don't win it very often."
Galway GAA

The West was awake today... Alas there was many a tear on its pillow.

29/07/2024

"Look, it's going to be hard to take. We had 25 shots on goal and we scored 13. I'm not going to sit here and criticise players because they're great lads in Galway."
Galway GAA

An ashen-faced and visibly deflated Pádraic Joyce said there was no escaping the pain of losing a second All-Ireland in three years, extending the county’s wait for a tenth triumph.

29/07/2024

The Galway diocese said it requires “time and space” to consider and consult on the internment of Bishop Casey in the cathedral’s crypt

The Catholic Church is ‘considering’ removing the remains of the late bishop Eamonn Casey from the Galway Cathedral following revelations of sexual abuse.

28/07/2024

Éamon Ó Cúiv, known initially as Dev Óg due to an uncanny resemblance to his grandfather, was always a quirky and unusual politician

Éamon Ó Cúiv, known initially as Dev Óg due to an uncanny resemblance to his grandfather, was always a quirky and unusual politician.

28/07/2024

Sam Maguire is heading north as Armagh seal a one-point triumph over Galway GAA in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final at Croke Park

Sam Maguire is heading north as Armagh seal a one-point triumph over Galway in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final at Croke Park.

28/07/2024

Keep up to date as Sam Maguire is up for grabs with Galway GAA and Armagh battling it out at Croke Park

Sam Maguire is up for grabs as this year’s All-Ireland Senior Football Championship climaxes with Galway and Armagh battling it out at Croke Park.

28/07/2024

There are two new teams in Armagh and Galway GAA bringing a splash of novelty and freshness to a Gaelic football championship

All-Ireland football final day: one of the special days in the Irish sporting calendar, and we have two new teams in Armagh and Galway bringing a splash of novelty and freshness to a Gaelic football championship that in recent years has been boring, stale and repetitive.

28/07/2024

The Galway goalkeeper hopes to maintain Dunmore’s successful tradition Galway GAA

It may be that the time has come, and the porter is near, like the fresh barrels approaching by currach in the old television advert. Twenty-three years they’ve waited for the 10th All-Ireland to dock in Galway. The constant if they succeed will be the presence of a Dunmore man on the team. No Gal...

28/07/2024

Kathy (76), who was born and bred in the village of Maghery, Co Armagh, married Bernard Higgins from Dunmore, Co Galway, 49 years ago

Kathy Higgins loves her family and her community and she loves GAA – just ask her 16 Galway grandchildren to whom she gave Armagh jerseys last Christmas.

28/07/2024

After last Sunday’s all-time classic, there is a danger that the football season might end with a bit of an anti-climax Galway GAA

After last Sunday’s all-time classic, there is a danger that the football season might end with a bit of an anti-climax.

28/07/2024

Dylan McHugh and Barry McCambridge reflect the ‘unsung hero’ nature of the progress Galway and Armagh have made to this All-Ireland football final

It’s been that type of year.

27/07/2024

Fast and ultra-fast charging points for electric vehicles are to be installed at 17 motorway locations over the coming year

Fast and ultra-fast charging points for electric vehicles are to be installed at 17 motorway locations over the coming year.

27/07/2024

Galway’s Aifric Keogh and Fiona Murtagh in the frame to challenge for a podium finish in Paris

Aifric Keogh and Fiona Murtagh are Irish rowing’s accidental pair.

27/07/2024

The long-awaited All-Ireland Football Final, which will see Galway and Armagh go head to head in Croke Park on Sunday, July 28, is upon us and fans of both sides are getting ready for the match.

And what’s better than following the match along with other fans for those who can’t make it to Croker? Check out the full article for some of the best places in Galway at which to watch the big game 👉 https://tinyurl.com/2ed4u9xp

27/07/2024

Ireland’s oldest man will be cheering for his native Galway in tomorrow’s All-Ireland football final after a full weekend of family celebrations for his 108th birthday

Ireland’s oldest man will be cheering for his native Galway in tomorrow’s All-Ireland football final after a full weekend of family celebrations for his 108th birthday.

27/07/2024

Similarities between both teams abound, and a draw is a possibility, but Tribesmen have the greater potential to outlast rivals in home straight Galway GAA

When Pádraic Joyce composed that text to Kieran McGeeney on the night of their All-Ireland group stage draw in Sligo, projecting that they would meet again in an All-Ireland final six weeks later, there may have been a degree of bonhomie in the exchange.

27/07/2024

Armagh are miserly. Galway are skinflints. And given that both finalists view the concession of goals as an affront to decency, it makes sense to flutter a few euros at 10/3 on there being no goal scorer on Sunday

Armagh are miserly. Galway are skinflints. And given that both finalists view the concession of goals as an affront to decency, it makes sense to flutter a few euros at 10/3 on there being no goalscorer on Sunday.

26/07/2024

A couple who hasn’t missed a Galway football match for four decades are appealing for help in finding All-Ireland final tickets.
GAA enthusiasts Pat and Ann Fee met in 1984 and since then, they have not missed a Galway football game.

Pat told the Irish Independent: “We travel all over the country, we’ve travelled up to Donegal, we’ve travelled to Derry, Monaghan, anywhere there’s a game we go. Every Sunday or Saturday, during the winter time and the summer time.

“It’s great fun because you meet so many people and you get to know so many people, and the banter is the best thing of the whole lot.”

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26/07/2024

Leo Moran thinks Galway GAA have a good chance in this weekend’s final

When Galway fans burst into a chorus of The Saw Doctors’ hit, N17, in Croke Park after their team qualified for this year’s All-Ireland Football Final, band member Leo Moran beamed with pride from a bar in Boston.

26/07/2024

The long-awaited All-Ireland Football Final is upon us and fans of both sides are getting ready for the match

The long-awaited All-Ireland Football Final, which will see Galway and Armagh go head to head in Croke Park on Sunday, July 28, is upon us and fans of both sides are getting ready for the match.

26/07/2024

The Moycullen community could not be prouder of Seán, Eoghan and Paul Kelly, who will represent their local club and county in Croke Park on Sunday

Galway GAA

The Moycullen community could not be prouder of Seán, Eoghan and Paul Kelly, who will represent their local club and county in Croke Park on Sunday, as their town turns maroon and white, and relatives fly home from as far as the US just to see them in action.

26/07/2024

The south Galway farmer accused of throwing a bag of cow dung in the direction of Minister for State, Anne Rabbitte has told a court that "it is a small incident and something I probably should regret

The south Galway farmer accused of throwing a bag of cow dung in the direction of Minister for State, Anne Rabbitte has told a court that "it is a small incident and something I probably should regret".

26/07/2024

O’Mahony, who died earlier this month at the age of 71, led two Galway sides to All-Ireland glory in 1998 and 2001

Memories of Galway GAA legend John O’Mahony could inspire the Tribesmen to win the All-Ireland football final on Sunday, according to superfan Gerry Rushe.

25/07/2024

The south Galway farmer accused of throwing a bag of cow dung in the direction of Minister for State, Anne Rabbitte has told a court that "it is a small incident and something I probably should regret"

The south Galway farmer accused of throwing a bag of cow dung in the direction of Minister for State, Anne Rabbitte has told a court that "it is a small incident and something I probably should regret".

25/07/2024

At the back of their class in St Jarlath’s College Tuam in the early 1990s, a group would often huddle to dissect and debate every football team imaginable

At the back of their class in St Jarlath’s College Tuam in the early 1990s, a group would often huddle to dissect and debate every football team imaginable.