After two lopsided provincials finals in Munster and Leinster on Saturday, this one promises to be a much more competitive affair.
Galway working hard as they turn Roscommon over before breaking at pace. Up the other end Cox shoots wide, Roscommon's seventh so far. Harney with a surging run for Roscommon before he is cynically hauled down. Finally we get our first point of the match from a free as Dylan McHugh is penalised. That could have been a black card. Patrick Kelly finds an onrushing Comer with a precise before latter-named hooks over his third point of the match. Galway 2-16 Roscommon 0-13 Galway 2-16 Roscommon 0-14 Galway 2-16 Roscommon 1-14 Diarmuid Murtagh got a late goal in the last action of the game but it was too late in the day for the Rossies. Galway 2-19 Roscommon 1-15 Galway 2-19 Roscommon 2-16
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GALWAY ARRIVED INTO this game under a good deal of pressure. They had lost the previous three Connacht finals, hadn't won a decider in Salthill since 2008 ...
Donie Smith (Boyle), 15. Ciarain Murtagh (St Faithleachs), 13. Cian McKeon (Boyle), 14. Enda Smith (Boyle), 10. Ronan Daly (Padraig Pearses) David Murray (Padraig Pearses), Conor Daly (Padraig Pearses), 2. Niall Daly (Padraig Pearses), 7. 13. Rob Finnerty (Salthill-Knocknacarra), 14. Liam Silke (Corofin), 3 John Daly (Mountbellew/Moylough), 12. Jack Glynn (Claregalway), 2.
Galway captured their 48th Connacht SFC title and first since 2018 when they proved too strong for Roscommon in front of a crowd of 21419 at Pearse Stadium.
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