Having won the under twelve County Championship in 1986 and ’87 we in Turloughmore Bord na nOg were entitled to feel confident at the beginning of the year that 1988 might bring our first under fourteen championship since 1966 and entitle us to represent our County at Feile for the first time. Drawn in a […]

Wexford champions Buffers Aley and Kilruane McDonaghs from Tipperary quailified for the final of the All-Ireland club hurling championship following victories over Cushendall of Antrim and Turloughmore of Galway, respectively. Corner forward Mick Butler. who scored five points, was outstanding in Buffers Alley’s 1-10 to 0-5 win at Cushendall while veteran Tony Doran added a […]

September 24th 1966 Turloughmore . . . . . . . 4 – 8 (20)     Mullagh . . . . . . . . . 2 – 8 (14) At sun drenched Kenney Park, Athenry, before a huge crowd Turloughmore County Champions took another step forward to break all records by taking their sixth […]

October 17th 1965 Turloughmore 7 – 4 Killimordaly 4 – 11 “Veteran Fahy The Saviour” Turloughmore joined Castlegar as the only clubs in Galway to win five successive senior hurling titles by beating Killimordaly in a thrilling and tensely fought final in Ballinasloe. The game started at a slow pace and first to score were […]

October 17th 1964 Turloughmore 5 – 11 Ballinasloe 5 – 5 Ballinasloe started in great style and were a goal up within 90 seconds and seven points clear before Turloughmore had their first point, five minutes into the game. Turloughmore battled back and had soon narrowed the gap to one point Frank Coffey scored the […]

Champions take third senior title Turloughmore 5 – 13     Fohenagh 2 –  4 Galway’s hurling championship games in general and finals in particular have, in the past been bedeviled by unsavory incidents and scenes that marred many encounters. Last Sunday’s senior decider involving Turloughmore and Fohenagh differed only slightly – the “fireworks” came after the final […]

Turloughmore 2 – 9   Castlegar 2 – 9 Turloughmore and Castlegar drew in the county final – A hurling thriller on a slippery sod and pelting rain in the Pearse stadium, Galway. The four thousand spectators got their moneys worth. Not only were they treated to a main course of sixty minutes, but extra time […]

October 8 1961 Turloughmore 3 – 6    Fohenagh 3 – 4 The game on Sunday was touch and go until the final whistle, but, it was worth the strain, drama, thrills and indecision in the end, making the victory all the more rewarding. The weather was unpredictable, and the rain made the play unspectacular, […]

September 1st 1956 Rain Stopped Play Turloughmore 3 – 2 Ardrahan 1 – 2 A cloudburst had hit Balinasloe and caused the water to lodge on the pitch to a dept of three or four inches. This was the scene in Duggan Park Balinasloe for the County Senior Hurling Final between Turloughmore and Ardrahan. It’s […]