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Meelick-Eyrecourt v Kinvara Intermediate Final....changingt times for Kinvara! Remember one time when they had just a Senior team now JHC D Semi Final and JHC E Final and going strong at underage too! Must be alot of new houses and population increase over the last few years bit like Ballindeeren future looks good! People no longer settling in Oranmore, Clarinbridge, Turloughmore and Craughwell! katser (Galway) - Posts: 2737 - 20/10/2025 15:43:16 2640836 Link
Replying To katser: "Meelick-Eyrecourt v Kinvara Intermediate Final....changingt times for Kinvara! Remember one time when they had just a Senior team now JHC D Semi Final and JHC E Final and going strong at underage too! Must be alot of new houses and population increase over the last few years bit like Ballindeeren future looks good! People no longer settling in Oranmore, Clarinbridge, Turloughmore and Craughwell!" The finalists are no surprise at Senior and Intermediate, Mellows beating Ahascragh-Fohenagh not as much a surprise as it seems, Mellows have plenty of seasoned campaigners and were able to negate Cathal Mannions influence. Same at Senior, both are seasoned , streetwise. Craughwell were lightweight and naive and Turlough have no forwards and puck out strategy kamikaze. Craughwell have players coming through, but injuries robbed them of players like Adam Stewart , Mark Monaghan, Stephen Hynes and Oisin Quirke for most of season who would have brought more physicality & skill. Tom's toyed with them. Victor Manzo was electric , surely MD will have a look, Eanna Burke, David Burke, Shane Cooney Conor Cooney ran the show.But Craughwell will have build on it. Ciaran Leen shone brightly and only forward that scored, MD will need to have a look. Turlough need to get traction from underage success soon, Matthew Tarpey a loss, didn't use full bench either, before older experienced lads move on. Loughrea have mix of youth and experience plus some serious hurlers coming through. Hanharan in backs, Shane Morgan Cullin Killeen, Tiernan Killeen, Darren Shaugnessy, Anthony Burns need county exposure . Kinvara were expected to make intermediate final, Ballygar will have a lot of What, if's. Kinvara have a young fast team , will be favourites. Meelick-Eyrecourt hanging around a while, can they do it, be interesting. I call Tom's and Kinvara. WesternSeaBoard (Galway) - Posts: 144 - 20/10/2025 17:44:37 2640859 Link
Replying To WesternSeaBoard: "The finalists are no surprise at Senior and Intermediate, Mellows beating Ahascragh-Fohenagh not as much a surprise as it seems, Mellows have plenty of seasoned campaigners and were able to negate Cathal Mannions influence. Same at Senior, both are seasoned , streetwise. Craughwell were lightweight and naive and Turlough have no forwards and puck out strategy kamikaze. Craughwell have players coming through, but injuries robbed them of players like Adam Stewart , Mark Monaghan, Stephen Hynes and Oisin Quirke for most of season who would have brought more physicality & skill. Tom's toyed with them. Victor Manzo was electric , surely MD will have a look, Eanna Burke, David Burke, Shane Cooney Conor Cooney ran the show.But Craughwell will have build on it. Ciaran Leen shone brightly and only forward that scored, MD will need to have a look. Turlough need to get traction from underage success soon, Matthew Tarpey a loss, didn't use full bench either, before older experienced lads move on. Loughrea have mix of youth and experience plus some serious hurlers coming through. Hanharan in backs, Shane Morgan Cullin Killeen, Tiernan Killeen, Darren Shaugnessy, Anthony Burns need county exposure . Kinvara were expected to make intermediate final, Ballygar will have a lot of What, if's. Kinvara have a young fast team , will be favourites. Meelick-Eyrecourt hanging around a while, can they do it, be interesting. I call Tom's and Kinvara." David Burke was a great galway servant. Unfortunately age is catching up on him for intercounty. Thomas's are a great club team. As regards county level, I'd bring in Manzo for a look (probably too small) and leave the rest. Intercounty is a different animal. Armchairreporter (Galway) - Posts: 129 - 20/10/2025 21:18:36 2640883 Link
Replying To BigBàsMan: "I'm actually from Limerick, living in loughrea. It's banter. Relax, you're from Turlough/ bridge ...?" Well you're going round in every thread essentially saying up Loughrea. Save that for the stadium. TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 303 - 20/10/2025 21:56:41 2640886 Link
Replying To TanCanRan: "Well you're going round in every thread essentially saying up Loughrea. Save that for the stadium." Haha such a salty poster. Glad I'm under your skin BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 214 - 21/10/2025 13:26:14 2640958 Link
Replying To Armchairreporter: "David Burke was a great galway servant. Unfortunately age is catching up on him for intercounty. Thomas's are a great club team. As regards county level, I'd bring in Manzo for a look (probably too small) and leave the rest. Intercounty is a different animal." Manso's age would likely count against him too as the amount of conditioning work it would take to get him to cope at IC level wouldn't be achieved in a year I don't think. He's a lovely player in full flight though and takes serious minding Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 966 - 21/10/2025 17:00:15 2640987 Link
Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Manso's age would likely count against him too as the amount of conditioning work it would take to get him to cope at IC level wouldn't be achieved in a year I don't think. He's a lovely player in full flight though and takes serious minding" Would he be good on the bench to come in late in matches for a spark I wonder? When the opponent defenses are tired? SouthGalway (Galway) - Posts: 78 - 21/10/2025 17:15:18 2640990 Link
Replying To SouthGalway: "Would he be good on the bench to come in late in matches for a spark I wonder? When the opponent defenses are tired?" That ship has sailed i'm afraid. No major breakthrough of new players for the county panel from the Club Championship i feel. When you look at the St Thomas' players dominating in tight exchanges one has to be concerned. Daithi is still the only player of IC standard in Turloughmore. SixtiesKid (Galway) - Posts: 369 - 21/10/2025 20:18:41 2641013 Link
Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Kinvara 1-21 1-19 Beagh Looks close on paper but it wasn't on grass. Kinvara comfortably the better side as a 'from play' tally of approx. 1-17 to 0-10 or so would imply. A combination of switching off after building up a big lead and a referee in the last 10 minutes awarding Beagh numerous frees for innocuous looking challenges. It's not a foul when a defender stands his ground when a forward carries the ball into contact and hits the floor. If it were we would have 100 frees per match and no play. Nobody says the free count should be equal as that's plainly ludicrous, but a free count of 21-6 in Beagh's favour, given the disparity in scores from open play, gives food for thought. Particularly as from memory the yellow card count was equal. It's not the referee's job to 'make the game competitive' or give a leg up to a team who can't manage it by themselves." Totally agree Kinvara are an outstanding team expect them do it against Eyrecourt who struggled against Ballygar. In the senior it's a lot harder to call to be honest, my gut feel is Loughrea but I wasn't impressed by them at the start of year perhaps they have gained momentum since then, St Thomas probably at the end of incredible generation but never count them out. Kinvara 7+ Loughrea by 2 GalwayJoe123 (Galway) - Posts: 8 - 22/10/2025 12:20:34 2641079 Link
Replying To GalwayJoe123: "Totally agree Kinvara are an outstanding team expect them do it against Eyrecourt who struggled against Ballygar. In the senior it's a lot harder to call to be honest, my gut feel is Loughrea but I wasn't impressed by them at the start of year perhaps they have gained momentum since then, St Thomas probably at the end of incredible generation but never count them out. Kinvara 7+ Loughrea by 2" Kinvara by 5. St. Thomas's by 2. Incredible consistency by Thomas's over a long period of time. They're doing something right. SouthGalway (Galway) - Posts: 78 - 22/10/2025 13:37:18 2641094 Link
Replying To SouthGalway: "Kinvara by 5. St. Thomas's by 2. Incredible consistency by Thomas's over a long period of time. They're doing something right." Kinvara by 4 and Loughrea by 5. Pace incredibly lacking in the Thomas' defence feel Loughrea can do damage by having the legs on them. In middle third also. BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 214 - 22/10/2025 13:50:08 2641095 Link
Replying To SouthGalway: "Kinvara by 5. St. Thomas's by 2. Incredible consistency by Thomas's over a long period of time. They're doing something right." Meelick-Eyrecourt and St Thomas ' to win. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2737 - 22/10/2025 14:36:25 2641104 Link
Both finals likely to be tight and hard to call either. I've been on Toms for a while now so have to stick with them. They have never lost a county SHC final having been in plenty in recent years and that will give them huge belief. The IHC could go either way. Last year's S/F was very tight and this is likely to go the same road. All results are possible. Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 966 - 22/10/2025 18:15:29 2641143 Link
Interesting that on the Galway Bay hurling podcast they said they heard from players and management of all four teams last week that they had issues with the quality of the lights and the effect they had on the games. Absolutely nobody wants to see a final under lights in Salthill. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 1014 - 22/10/2025 19:27:40 2641158 Link
After years of trying to win intermediate meelick eyrecourt to win it this year and still be intermediate next year Tubeyou (Galway) - Posts: 31 - 22/10/2025 19:39:36 2641160 Link
Replying To galway19: "Interesting that on the Galway Bay hurling podcast they said they heard from players and management of all four teams last week that they had issues with the quality of the lights and the effect they had on the games. Absolutely nobody wants to see a final under lights in Salthill." Do the club delegates not speak up at CB meetings or do they just nod their heads at the top table. I haven't met anyone who thought it was the right idea to bring the hurling SF's to PS but it happened. Dualstar22 (Galway) - Posts: 17 - 23/10/2025 10:58:05 2641213 Link
Replying To Dualstar22: "Do the club delegates not speak up at CB meetings or do they just nod their heads at the top table. I haven't met anyone who thought it was the right idea to bring the hurling SF's to PS but it happened." Sin é go díreach. Hurling clubs on the whole weren't happy with the structure of the championship. A motion was submitted by a club in advance of last year's convention, it was reviewed and tweaked and then sent to all hurling clubs to vote on and was overwhelmingly passed. As a result the no-man's land Senior B is gone, and we have Senior, Intermediate and Junior now. The power is with the clubs, if they only choose to exercise it. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2610 - 23/10/2025 12:14:06 2641235 Link
Best of Luck to Jason Flynn in his retirement from Galway Hurling. Thanks for all the hard work and time you put in Jason! SouthGalway (Galway) - Posts: 78 - 23/10/2025 19:12:35 2641302 Link
Replying To GalwayJoe123: "Totally agree Kinvara are an outstanding team expect them do it against Eyrecourt who struggled against Ballygar. In the senior it's a lot harder to call to be honest, my gut feel is Loughrea but I wasn't impressed by them at the start of year perhaps they have gained momentum since then, St Thomas probably at the end of incredible generation but never count them out. Kinvara 7+ Loughrea by 2" I think you should do more homework, kinvara drew with ballygar in the group stages. Galway456 (Galway) - Posts: 148 - 23/10/2025 21:35:07 2641310 Link
Oranmore Maree - Also added the u16 A County Hurling Title last night after a titanic extra time battle against Craughwell. A moment in time or sign of things to come? No guarantee that this will translate to senior. TBD. A dual club, they have muscled in on Claregalway & Salthill's dominance in underage football. Beaten Athenry, Loughrea and Craughwell in the hurling finals.. This should be a good sign for Galway with a new force in the county. Or is it a sign of rural depopulation and supercharged suburban superclubs? Both outlooks could probably be true. Either way, well done to Oranmore Maree for their success and contribution to underage GAA in Galway. A truly incredible year. Copied the list from a poster on football thread. 2024 Hurling: U15 A Champs U15 National A Champs Minor A Hurling Champions Lost U20 Semi to eventual winners Football: U19 A Final Minor A football U16 A Lost U15A Final 2025 Hurling: U20 A Champs Minor A Champs U16 A Champs Football: Minor A Championship Minor A League U19 A Championship U19 A League Pending 2025 Fixtures U16 A Semi - Football Flybynight (Galway) - Posts: 2 - 24/10/2025 11:36:31 2641362 Link