Inside Track with John McIntyre

MOUNTBELLEW-Moylough may have only won five Galway senior football titles in their history, but the way things are shaping in this year’s championship it’s difficult to bet against Val Daly’s troops not retaining the Frank Fox Cup.

Having made the breakthrough in Galway in 1964 – they retained the title the following year – Mountbellew-Moylough have been consistently to the forefront of Galway club football. Maybe, only three more championships have followed (1974, 1986 and 2021), but since 2008 they have featured in seven county finals.

Mountbellew-Moylough had a decent team during this period but, unfortunately for them, it coincided with Corofin’s golden era. The teams met in four county finals (2009, ’15, ’17 and ‘18) and Corofin won them all. And then when Mountbellew-Moylough were faced with different final foes – Moycullen in 2020 – they still came out second best.

But all that agony was finally ended last year when led by a terrific attacking display from Eoin Finnerty, Mountbellew-Moylough at last got the better of their nemesis Corofin in a county final. There was no doubt about their superiority either, carrying the day on a 1-12 to 0-9 scoreline at Pearse Stadium last November.

The new champions didn’t want to stop there, but their provincial campaign ended abruptly and controversially at Dr Hyde Park when losing out by a single point to Padraig Pearses of Roscommon. It was a tough outcome for Mountbellew-Moylough, especially as several baffling refereeing calls went against them in the closing minutes.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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