Shane Walsh hails 'sweet' Connacht win ahead of bigger tests

Galway attacker Shane Walsh says consistency is the key aim for his side as they look to build on the weekend's Connacht final win over Roscommon.

Walsh was in fine form in that game, hitting 1-06 and playing a key role in the team’s fine victory.

Both himself and Damien Comer were central characters in Galway's first provincial success since 2018 and Walsh says that their involvement in the game was down to the fluid transition from defence to attack.

"I suppose you look to stop trying to overcomplicate things and maybe I was guilty of that too," he said at the launch of this year's All-Ireland SFC series.

"But our transition from back to front allowed us time and space as forwards and we crave time and space. When you have that anything can happen

"It was a big performance, and we won the game but there are still things to improve on in the next few weeks. The beauty of football is that you will come across different tacks and it is about who adapts the best – you or the opposition."

He mentions that word consistency, something that Galway have desperately been trying to find in the past number of years.

It’s not easy to attain that but Walsh says Galway are on the right track.

"Some lads came in this year and this is a relatively new group of players but the first thing we wanted was to put down a marker and get up out of Division 2.

"We kicked on this year and did that. The 24 April game against Mayo saw us over the line and it looks like everything is starting to build nicely. We just want to try and get that consistency and we have been striving for that for the last few years.

"But it was sweet to win on Sunday and a lot of lads were winning their first Connacht title. It was our first one to win since 2005 in front of our