National League
I am a proud Galway man, father to three proud Galway sons. We all made our way to Pearse stadium today to watch them take on Kerry in round 7 of the GAA national football league. A win for Galway would put them into the National League final against Connacht neighbours Mayo.
Revenge would be on Galway's minds having missed out in the Championship final last year to Kerry on a scoreline of 0-20 to 0-18 in what was a great game of Gaelic Football.
As per usual, the first thing to do was buy the match programme.
Now, with programme in hand we find our seats for the game and have a look at how the teams would line out.
Galway's 11
Kerry's 11
National Anthem
As is customary in the GAA, both teams line up and face the Irish national flag, the Tri Colour for our National Anthem Amhrán na bhFiann.
And now it's show team, a place in the National League final awaits the winner. Here we have Galway talisman Shane Walsh walking over to kick Galway in front with the first kick of the game.
It was a lead they never relinquished either, as they scraped and fought hard all over the pitch and held their lead all day long to run out winners on a scoreline of 1-13 to 0-14. So Galway march on to face Mayo in the League final and this little man couldn't have been happier.
Interview for man of the match
If a Galway win wasn't enough for them, my three sons also got more to be happy about, with Galway captain who is also captain of our local team Moycullen getting man of the match.
Here are the four proud Moycullen men, Seán Kelly the captain and man of the match, with @Ablaze junior 1 to 3.