AFTER BREAKING BOTH of his legs in a horror injury last summer, Galway star Paul Conroy announced his return to the club scene this weekend in impressive fashion.
The St James’ midfielder contributed a handsome 1-5 and played an instrumental role as his side beat Leitir Móir on a scoreline of 3-14 to 0-8 in the opening round of the Galway SFC last night.
In the opening minutes, Conroy intercepted a kickout and rattled the back of the net — while all of his points came from play as he lined out in the full-forward line.
One of those was from the sideline ‘from an impossible angle to say the least,’ as the club wrote, ‘and to the astonishment of everyone in attendance, the umpire raised the white flag ‘.
The Tribe veteran was returning to play after suffering a devastating season-ending injury in Galway’s Super 8s opener against Kerry last July.
He underwent surgery on the double-break in his left leg — his tibia and fibula — and also sustained a hairline fracture in his right leg following an accidental collision with Seán O’Shea in his side’s Croke Park victory.
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The news of Conroy’s bright return comes as a timely boost for Galway boss Kevin Walsh, whose side are preparing for a Connacht final meeting against Roscommon in three weeks’ time.
That decider is fixed for Sunday, 16 June.
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Headline is misleading
Ireland hammered
No matter how much the media keep trying to push women’s sport, they will ever be as popular as the men’s version. #reality
@fergalmoore: the fact you need to point that out is kinda sad but alright mate
@fergalmoore: so what. Let people enjoy it. This is the national team.
France were at a different level. You can’t be that late arriving at the rucks and very very loose line in defense against that side.
@Tommy C: Two trys from pillar in the ruck being asleep. Even with 14 France were far more composed. France pack we’re very impressive and some great offloading in the tackle.
Well beaten with some unacceptable individual errors. New coach on the cards imo.
@Hey TC: lost 7 in 8. Not sure what happened since Scotland. Seemed to have turned a corner?
@James Hughes: crash ball constantly, even when played out the line. No plan re the backs. Don’t get me wrong, strong performance, just lacking conviction in vital areas that let us down.
allez le bleu
What an utterly crazy red card. Ireland were well beaten but that was a shocking decision by the referee. If it had changed the direction of the game it would have been a complete travesty.
@Brian Jones:
Definitely yellow … red was very harsh.
@Camacsaint: definitely yellow, but red was just not correct.
Those girls looked like pure amateurs, as bad as a team of Rory bests
@Chris: it’s embarrassing yeah. I’d rather watch the angelus than Irish women butcher rugby.
@Chris: They are amateurs. They played a semi professional team.
Of course they looked like amateurs.
Reminds me of the many years in the Ireland v France men’s game when we were routinely destroyed, disgraced… Worse than that, Scotland Wales etc had no such problem – it seemed to be that a blue jersey was enough to terrorise us. The Scots, unlike us, had a hang-up about England. Stick at it ladies – you can make things change
Nothing can or will change until we have professionals!!
@BMJF: would 15000 people go to a woman’s rugby game in a year? How can they afford to pay the players on that
@tubbsyf: If it was based solely on attendance then a lot of players in a lot of sports wouldnt be professional.
@Ormond: participant rates as well play a huge part, hardly anybody plays or watched ladies rugby
As long as they noted the run out then who cares