Old-world order holds firm to the throne as Galway and Kerry land provincial titles

Connor Gleeson’s late free earns Galway a record 50th Connacht SFC – although their route to Sam Maguire may be rockier than Kerry’sGalway manager Pádraic Joyce celebrates with the team after winning the Connacht SFC final at Pearse Stadium on Sunday. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

Cork , Tipperary , Clare , Limerick , Waterford combined have garnered a total of 51 Munster titles. This was Jack O’Connor’s seventh as Kerry manager, leaving him fourth in the roll of honour, five ahead of Clare.

With the clock in the 76th minute and the sides level, the Galway goalkeeper stood over a free – just outside the 45m line but directly in front of the posts – took several steps back, eyed the posts, moved forward and struck the ball sweetly with his right foot. Mayo’s round-robin medicine might help ease the pain of this defeat, given Kevin McStay’s men appear to have a more manageable pathway to the knockout stages of the All-Ireland as they will be in a group alongside Roscommon, Cavan and the eventual Leinster champions .“We were mad to win it, I hope ye all understand now there was no one lining up easy groups or difficult groups when you see the stuff that was going on there,” said the Mayo manager.

But the championship’s distractions are all nearly done away with now, the fluff around the edges almost fully trimmed. The remaining two provincial football finals will be decided next weekend and then, well, 16 teams will take their place on the start line in the race for Sam.

Kerry-Gaa Clare-Gaa Galway-Gaa Mayo-Gaa

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