Galway 4-20 Leitrim 0-9
This was painful. Another summer afternoon when the impossible and widening gap between the elite teams and the rest was vividly demonstrated.
A crowd of 4,749 turned up on an overcast Salthill afternoon to watch Leitrim’s well-organised resistance gradually and then totally dissolve in the face of relentless maroon pressure.
What more could Andy Moran and Leitrim do here? They set out in a mood of ferocious determination, they kept the game tight for the first 20 minutes, when the scoreboard read 0-5 to 0-4 and they kicked a couple of gorgeous early points. But it was clear that they were burning serious reserves of energy just to break up a series of patient Galway attacks and it was clear, too, that Galway’s intensity would not wave …
- May 9, 2022
