Inside Track with John McIntyre

A contrasting tale for two Galway senior team managers over the weekend. Both Padraic Joyce and Micheál Donoghue were supervising the first games of the new National League campaigns within less than 24-hours of each other at Pearse Stadium, but one sideline supremo must have departed Salthill with more than a touch of migraine.

The footballers were first up on Saturday when the venue’s new floodlights were officially turned on. The weather was hostile, but around 11,000 spectators braved the conditions to see a repeat of last year’s All-Ireland Final against Armagh, with the occasion given further........

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