Inside Track

Inside Track with John McIntyre Let’s us never hear about Galway’s supposedly soft centre again. Ever since their league final dismantling of Tipperary, some critics have been waiting in the long grass for the Tribesmen...

Inside Track with John McIntyre THE moment of truth is fast approaching for the Galway hurlers and for all their victories in 2017, including in the National League and Leinster finals, the players and management...

A Different View by John McIntyre MAYO may have only beaten Kerry once in the championship – the 1996 All-Ireland semi-final – since 1951 and have also suffered some chastening defeats at the hands of...

Inside Track With fifteen minutes gone in the second-half of Sunday’s slow-burning All-Ireland hurling semi-final between Cork and Waterford, it was difficult to avoid the conclusion that Galway would comfortably beat the pick of the...

We have no desire to be a killjoy after Galway’s thrilling triumph in Sunday’s tumultuous All-Ireland hurling semi-final, but the job of ending the county’s nearly 30-year championship famine isn’t done yet and whether...

Inside Track with John McIntyre THERE’S still a long road for Galway footballers to travel in order to become serious All-Ireland contenders again. Despite facing a below-par and, at times, sloppy Kerry at Croke Park...