PÁDRAIC MANNION has played down suggestions that there’s no love lost between the hurlers of Galway and Dublin.
Their rivalry has ratcheted up hugely in the past decade, a timeline that coincides with Dublin’s emergence as a serious force.
They even famously engaged in a ‘Boston brawl’ back in November, 2015, when their ‘Super 11s’ exhibition match at Fenway Park produced some unexpected scenes of chaos.
“Yeah, I was playing that time,” confirmed Mannion (right), who established himself on the Galway team that year. “It was just one of