Salthill-Knocknacarra v Moycullen score recap and result from the Galway final
Moycullen 1-17 Salthill-Knocknacarra 1-15 Moycullen were crowned Galway senior football champions for the third time on Saturday night after narrowly defeating Salthill-Knocknacarra in a cracking final. The game started half an hour late after the match being played before it went to extra-time at Pearse Stadium. Moycullen, who had the wind in the first half, got a goal from their very first attack, with Sean Kelly finding the back of the net. There was plenty of speculation pre-match on whether Peter Cooke would start the game or not. He began on the bench for Moycullen, but was introduced early in the opening half and immediately made an impact, scoring two quick two-pointers back-to-back, which put his side four points ahead at the time. That lead was five points at half-time, with Salthill-Knocknacarra's goal coming from a first half penalty. Eoghan Deeley was stretchered off for Salthill-Knocknacarra in the second half after blocking a Moycullen shot with his head. Moycullen had lost the last two county finals, with Don Connellan, dying during the summer shortly after stepping down as the club's manager. And when Salthill-Knocknacarra took the lead for the first time in the game with some ten minutes to go, it looked like they could have lost another. But Dessie Conneely played a starring role as they managed to hold on to win by two points in the end, with man of the match Sean Kelly getting the last score of the game. A late Salthill-Knocknacarra effort on goal, bounced back off the crossbar, with captain David Wynne saying afterwards that Connellan was looking down on them.
