Galway’s Connor Gleeson carries the torch for his club and hopes to maintain their successful tradition
Galway’s goalkeeper Connor Gleeson. Photo: Ray McManus/Sportsfile
It may be that the time has come, and the porter is near, like the fresh barrels approaching by currach in the old television advert. Twenty-three years they’ve waited for the 10th All-Ireland to dock in Galway. The constant if they succeed will be the presence of a Dunmore man on the team. No Galway team has been victorious without one.
If you were superstitious you might pick a Dunmore man out of pure desperation but the one they have is there on merit. Connor Gleeson has been playing as if guided by supernal forces as well as human intuition. Clean sheets in all games except one. And a match-winning free in the last minute of injury-time in the Connacht final against Mayo.
