Galway hurling supporters have a reputation for being a caustic bunch.
What other county could have been implicated that famous Vincent Hogan article from 2011, in which three All-Ireland winning heroes tore into the current crop of players on the day of their championship opener, with one ex-champ employing the adjective 'cowardly' when talking about their lack of prowess under a high ball.
This correspondent recalls being in a Dublin pub on a bank holiday Monday early in 2013 watching Galway play Tipperary in the League in Salthill.
St. Thomas's had won the All-Ireland club the day before, and an old boy from the Peterswell area wandered in to see how Galway were getting on. Things weren't going well. Tipp were winning handily. The old fella squinted at the screen for a few minutes, before walking out in advance of the final whistle.
He only spent five minutes in the pub, but still managed to break the world record for utterances of the phrase 'ARRAGH! Galway are fuckin' ussshhhless!' In total, he used the phrase about 12 times in 5 minutes. Every Tipperary point, every Galway wide, every misplaced Galway pass was greeted with this declaration. His joy from the previous day's club success didn't endure long.
Speaking to Oisin Langan at yesterday's Web Summit, Joe Canning said
You know the guys that are genuine, you know the guys who are trying to sell a few papers and things like that.
When you’re not successful and not performing and not winning All-Irelands with Galway, it’s very easy for somebody to be down on you when you’re down.
Even this year (when) we got to the All-Ireland it was as if they were waiting for us to slip up in the All-Ireland final to write their articles and put us down a bit more...
As everyone says, it’s six inches from a clap on the back to a kick up the arse so you take it all with a pinch of salt.
[Examiner]
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