Alan Mulholland
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Pádraic Joyce’s blunt ambition already shaking things up in Galway
- Gaelic Football
- February 8, 2020, 06:00
It can often take time for any incoming manager to establish a voice and vision for how he wants his team to play. The new football season is only wee(...)

Ciarán Murphy: The rules won’t change for the GAA
- Gaelic Games
- November 23, 2016, 21:00
As a man who enjoys all the meats of the sporting stew, I was at the Ireland v New Zealand game last weekend with my father, who hadn’t been to Lansdo(...)

Galway come out from the shadows to face Roscommon
- Gaelic Football
- July 9, 2016, 08:00
No matter what happens in Pearse Stadium on Sunday, Galway football is beginning to move from the shadows. The county has had gaps before: it failed (...)

Kevin Walsh turning things around for young Galway team
- Gaelic Football
- August 1, 2015, 09:00
When the day was doused for good in Salthill a fortnight ago and thoughts were turning to wringing the rain out of our very souls, Kevin Walsh barely (...)

Donegal braced for showdown with resurgent Galway
- Gaelic Football
- August 1, 2015, 01:00
How quickly perceptions shift. If Donegal had managed to scrape past Monaghan in what was a cagey, claustrophobic Ulster final, the general vie(...)

Galway aim to bring Mayo’s dominance in Connacht to an end
- Gaelic Football
- June 13, 2015, 14:00
Former Mayo manager John Maughan said a few years ago when discussing the impact of the qualifiers on the All-Ireland series that whereas the likes(...)

Connacht rugby is blossoming but real beauty lies in their spirit of separateness
- Rugby
- January 10, 2015, 14:00
For Connacht devotees, these must be strange times. Somewhere Monty Hall’s old gem – “I became an overnight success after 20 years” – must be rattling(...)

Anthony Cunningham to get three more years with Galway
- Hurling
- September 26, 2014, 16:11
Anthony Cunningham is set to become Galway’s longest serving manager since Cyril Farrell guided them to All-Ireland glory in the 1980s after being han(...)

Spillane ruined the moment by reminding Joe that ‘Cuba never played Gaelic football’
- Sport
- September 1, 2014, 06:00
Well, good heavens.As if Saturday wasn’t gobsmacking enough (prompting an English man on the Twitter machine to instruct his friends: “Get yourself on(...)

Brendan Lynskey to challenge for Galway hurling manager’s job
- Hurling
- August 29, 2014, 01:00
Former All Star Brendan Lynskey has confirmed that he will be challenging Anthony Cunningham to become the new Galway hurling manager.And with former (...)