Micheál Donoghue returned to manage the Galway senior hurlers for the 2025 campaign.
The Clarinbridge clubman discusses Sunday’s Leinster SHC Final against Kilkenny, responding to setbacks, affording young players opportunities, and the importance of his backroom team in the Galway set-up.
Click here to listen to the interview.
Galway captain Conor Whelan discusses Sunday’s Leinster SHC, his his PhD on Student Athlete Wellbeing, and the emergence of a talented crop of players in Micheál Donoghue’s panel.
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The Galway U17 Hurling team to face Clare in the Electric Ireland All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship Quarter-Final is announced
Galway v Clare
🗓️Sunday 1st June 2025
📍FBD Semple Stadium
⏰3.00pm
📺Watch Live on TG4 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/JUe0-RFsKzc
Buy Match Tickets in advance ⤵️
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Best of Luck to Kenneth Burke, Team Management and our Minor Hurling squad!
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Round 5 of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship takes place this weekend with our Senior Hurlers making the trip to Parnell Park, Dublin.
The Galway Senior Hurling team is as follows:
GALWAY V DUBLIN
📍Parnell Park
🗓️Sunday 25th May
🕓2.00pm
📱Live Scores via WhatstheScor App
📻 Commentary on Galway Bay FM, RnaG Spórt
📺 Watch Live on RTE TV
Match Tickets are on sale here ⤵️
Best of Luck to Micheál and the Lads !
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Galway GAA is delighted to announce a new partnership with leading professional services firm, Forvis Mazars, who will become title sponsor of the Galway Senior Hurling Club Championship.
From today, the competition will officially be known as the Forvis Mazars Senior Hurling Club Championship.
This exciting collaboration brings together one of Ireland’s most competitive Senior hurling championships with a global accountancy and business advisory firm that shares a deep commitment to excellence, teamwork and the support of grassroots sport and local communities across Ireland.
Claude Geoghegan, Chairperson of the Galway Hurling Committee, said:
“We’re thrilled to welcome Forvis Mazars on board. Their support is a real endorsement of the strength, tradition and passion for hurling in Galway. This partnership is a great fit for Galway GAA. Forvis Mazars shares our values – ambition, integrity and strong community roots. Their involvement will help us further develop hurling across the county, both on and off the field. It’s a fantastic boost for our clubs, players, and supporters.”
Austin Sammon, Lead partner at Forvis Mazars, Galway, added:
“Club GAA is the heartbeat of every parish and community in Galway. It represents identity, belonging and pride – and nowhere is that more evident than in the senior hurling championship. We’re absolutely delighted to support the game at this level and play our part in sustaining grassroots sport. As a firm with deep roots in Galway, this sponsorship reflects our ongoing commitment to invest in the people and communities where we live and work.”
The draws for the Senior, Senior B, and Intermediate Club Hurling Championships will take place on Monday, 9 June 2025 at 8.00pm.
Tune in to Galway Bay FM Radio for live coverage of the draws on the night.
About the Forvis Mazars Senior Hurling Club Championship
The Galway Senior Hurling Club Championship is one of the most competitive and closely followed club competitions in the country. With some of the finest players and most passionate clubs in Ireland, it continues to showcase the very best of our national game. The support of Forvis Mazars ensures the championship remains a top-class platform for players and a thrilling experience for fans.
About Forvis Mazars
Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network established on 1 June 2024. It brings together the previously known Mazars international partnership and FORVIS, a top-ranked firm in the United States.
Operating as an internationally integrated partnership in over 100 countries and territories, they leverage their global expertise and scale to deliver cutting-edge services in audit, assurance, tax, consulting, financial advisory, corporate finance and financial outsourcing.
With over 950 staff across offices in Dublin, Galway, Cork and Limerick, the Irish firm draws on the expertise of more than 40,000 professionals to assist major international corporates, SMEs, financial institutions and public bodies in achieving their strategic and business goals. https://www.forvismazars.com/ie/en
Pictured at the sponsorship announcement are:
L to R: Gavin Lee, Claude Geoghegan (Chairperson Galway Hurling Committee), Austin Sammon (Partner, Forvis Mazars in Galway), Shane Cooney,
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Photo Imagery: Dave Henry Sportsmedia
Electric Ireland Leinster Minor Hurling Championship Final
Galway v Kilkenny
🗓️Saturday 24th May 2025
📍Laois Hire O’Moore Park
⏰5.15pm
📺Watch Live on TG4
Buy Match Tickets in advance ⤵️
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Best of Luck to Kenneth Burke, Team Management and our Minor Hurling squad!
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Leinster SHC Round Four
Galway 6-27 Antrim 1-14
By Billy Coss at Pearse Stadium
Despite resting a number of frontliners, Galway made it three wins on the bounce and kept their Leinster Senior Hurling Championship destiny in their own hands with an emphatic victory over 14-man Antrim in the searing heat in Salthill.
It’s 82 years since Antrim defeated Galway for the first and only time in championship hurling. Thirteen goals were shared in the 1943 All-Ireland quarter-final at the old Corrigan Park as the Saffron County sensationally prevailed on the way to that season’s final.
Galway’s winning margins in the fixture have otherwise ranged from a high of 34 points down to a low of 12. This afternoon’s meeting, their third ever in Leinster, came at the upper end of that scale with 28 points dividing the teams at the finish.
The game’s direction of travel was already well established when Antrim defender Declan McCloskey was dismissed on a straight red card following an off-the-ball incident with Tom Monaghan late in the opening half. Galway were out to a 2-12 to 0-8 lead by then despite facing the wind with Brian Concannon and Anthony Burns netting their goals.
Captain Conor Whelan got Galway’s points tally moving with a terrific Kevin Cooney catch and score from the terrace sideline among the highlights, along with an exquisite Ronan Glennon pass for the first three of six on the day for Monaghan.
Antrim’s finishing was below par and Joseph McLaughlin accounted for five points of their tally before the break, with Eoin O’Neill chipping in with two as a gap of 11 separated them at the break.
With their crunch clash especially with Dublin just around the corner, Micheál Donoghue made six changes to the starting XV against Wexford with Padraic and Cathal Mannion, David Burke, John Fleming, Tiernan Killeen and Colm Molloy replaced by Joshua Ryan, Seán Linnane, Ronan Glennon, Conor Cooney, Anthony Burns and Kevin Cooney.
The winners also had the luxury of withdrawing a number of established hands, including Conor Whelan and Gavin Lee early in the third quarter. Their goal rush continued with Concannon and Burns both grabbing their second, while sub Declan McLaughlin also got on the act.
Injuries allied to a suspension for chief marksman James McNaughton robbed Antrim of firepower in attack, though they struck for a consolation goal on 67 minutes through Niall McGarrell.
There was still time for Galway to bring their green flag total up to six when Kevin Cooney struck in the next passage of play. They move on to what promises to be a high stakes final round fixture against Dublin in Parnell Park.
Davy Fitzgerald’s side will quickly shift their focus to what’s shaping up to be a Round Five ‘win or bust’ clash with Offaly in determining whether they retain their Liam MacCarthy Cup status for 2026.
Scorers for Galway: Conor Cooney 0-11 (9fs), Anthony Burns 2-2, Tom Monaghan 0-6, Brian Concannon 2-0, Kevin Cooney and Declan McLaughlin 1-1 each, Conor Whelan 0-2, and Ronan Glennon 0-2 each, Darren Morrissey and Seán Linnane 0-1 each.
Scorers for Antrim: Joseph McLaughlin 0-7 (6fs), Gerard Walsh 0-3 (3f), Niall McGarrell 1-0, Eoin O’Neill 0-2, Cormac McKeown and Niall O’Connor 0-1 each.
Galway: Darach Fahy; Joshua Ryan, Fintan Burke, Darren Morrissey; Seán Linnane, Gavin Lee, T.J. Brennan; Cianan Fahy, Ronan Glennon; Conor Whelan (captain), Conor Cooney, Tom Monaghan; Kevin Cooney, Brian Concannon, Anthony Burns.
Subs: Jack Grealish for Burke inj (35), Dan Loftus for Morrissey (HT), Micheál Garvey for Whelan (42), John Cooney for Lee (42), Declan McLaughlin for Cianan Fahy (56).
Antrim: Ryan Elliott; Stephen Rooney, Niall O’Connor, Paddy Burke; Seán McKay, Conor Boyd, Conall Bohill; Gerard Walsh, Declan McCloskey; Ryan McCambridge, Eoghan Campbell, Nigel Elliott; Cormac McKeown, Eoin O’Neill, Joseph McLaughlin.
Subs: Eoin McFerran for Burke temporary (14-16) & Rooney inj (21), Scott Walsh for Nigel Elliott (HT), Paul Boyle for McCambridge (52), Niall McGarrell for McLaughlin (54); Aodhán McGarry for O’Neill (70).
Referee: Thomas Gleeson (Dublin).
Electric Ireland Leinster Minor Hurling Championship Semi-Final
Galway v Wexford
🗓️Sunday 18th May 2025
📍Laois Hire O’Moore Park
⏰12.00pm
📺Watch Live on TG4 YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/live/LC8Bzjw5iE4
Buy Match Tickets in advance ⤵️
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Best of Luck to Kenneth Burke, Team Management and our Minor Hurling squad!
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Round 4 of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship takes place this weekend with the visit of Antrim to Salthill.
The Galway Senior Hurling team is as follows
GALWAY V ANTRIM
📍Pearse Stadium
🗓️Saturday 17th May
🕓2.30pm
📱Live Scores via WhatstheScor App
📻 Commentary on Galway Bay FM, RnaG Spórt
📺 Watch Live on GAA+
Match Tickets are on sale here ⤵️
https://www.ticketmaster.ie/galway-v-antrim-leinster-senior-hurling-co-galway-17-05-2025/event/1800627BE94088DF
Best of Luck to Micheál and the Lads !
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Leinster Senior Hurling Championship
Galway 1-29 Wexford 2-16
By Billy Coss at Pearse Stadium
A 17-point haul in a virtuoso performance from Cathal Mannion proved the inspiration for Galway to defeat Wexford in this afternoon’s Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Round Three clash at Pearse Stadium.
The Ahascragh-Fohenagh clubman struck six from play, three in each half, and left very little behind as the Tribesmen made it two wins on the bounce since their opening day loss to Kilkenny. In contrast, the Model County’s chances of a top three finish are in a precarious position.
Galway captain Conor Whelan opted to face the breeze in the first half but Keith Rossiter’s side were 0-4 to 0-2 to the good in the early minutes. With Mannion in majestic form, Galway fought back with six scores in-a-row to lead 0-8 to 0-4 after the first quarter.
Seven of the next ten points also belonged to Micheál Donoghue’s side who found their groove and pushed out their half-time advantage to 0-15 to 0-11 after shooting into the Árus Bóthar na Trá end. Gavin Lee picked off two classy points while Brian Concannon, Cianan Fahy, Colm Molloy and John Fleming also chipped in.
Wexford leaned heavily on chief marksman Lee Chin, scorer of a dozen points. The captain’s influence at its most pronounced before the break with his eight points added to by Jack O’Connor, Conor Hearne and Kevin Foley efforts.
Galway’s Tom Monaghan and Rory O’Connor from Wexford traded points after the restart before the visitors grabbed the first of their two second half goals when O’Connor released Cathal Dunbar to rattle the net in the 42nd minute and cut the deficit to 0-16 to 1-12.
The irrepressible Mannion was responsible for six of the next eight points that followed – two Chin frees coming by way of reply for Wexford – as Galway made their move and pushed 0-22 to 1-14 clear on 56 minutes.
Galway defender Darren Morrissey had earlier blocked an O’Connor goal attempt out for a 65 but Wexford’s second goal was soon on its way when sub Cian Byrne finished on 58 minutes and put the Model County in striking distance once again, trailing 0-22 to 2-14.
The Tribesmen’s response to both goals was telling on the day. With Fleming, Fahy and Seán Linnane finding the range and Mannion steadily accumulating his mammoth total, they would outscore their opponents by 1-7 to two points in what time remained.
Galway’s goal arrived in the 70th minute when Kevin Cooney’s initial attempt was saved before fellow replacement Conor Cooney swept home the rebound.
They move on to a second successive home fixture when Antrim visit Salthill next Saturday afternoon. Wexford, who have one win on the board from three outings, host Offaly.
Scorers for Galway: Cathal Mannion 0-17 (11f); Conor Cooney 1-0, Gavin Lee, Brian Concannon, John Fleming, Cianan Fahy and Ton Monaghan 0-2 each; Colm Molloy and Seán Linnane 0-1 each.
Scorers for Wexford: Lee Chin 0-12 (9f, 1 65), Cathal Dunbar and Cian Byrne 1-0 each; Jack O’Connor, Kevin Foley, Conor Hearne and Rory O’Connor 0-1 each.
GALWAY: Darach Fahy; Darren Morrissey, Fintan Burke, Padraic Mannion; Cianan Fahy, Gavin Lee, TJ Brennan; David Burke, Tom Monaghan; John Fleming, Tiernan Killeen, Conor Whelan (captain); Colm Molloy, Brian Concannon, Cathal Mannion. Subs: Kevin Cooney for Killeen (55), Anthony Burns for Molloy (55), Seán Linnane for Fleming (60), Conor Cooney for Concannon (66), Ronan Glennon for David Burke (69).
WEXFORD: Mark Fanning; Conor Foley, Liam Ryan, Eoin Ryan; Richie Lawlor, Damien Reck, Charlie McGuckin; Conor Hearne, Simon Donohoe; Jack O’Connor, Kevin Foley, Cathal Dunbar; Seamus Casey, Lee Chin (captain), Rory O’Connor. Subs: Conor McDonald for Casey (50), Cian Byrne for Jack O’Connor (54), Jack Redmond for Lawlor (58), Cian Molloy for McGuckin (66).
REFEREE: Thomas Walsh (Waterford).
