Gary Sice won his 14th Galway senior football championship medal as Corofin defeated Maigh Cuilinn by 2-9 to 0-9.
It was deja vu with Corofin defeating Maigh Cuilinn for the second time in twelve months in a Galway decider.
A mistake from Maigh Cuilinn goalkeeper Andrew Power gifted Corofin the initiative early on, with young forward Jack McCabe capitalising on the error to score the game's first goal.
Corofin went into the interval leading by five points and they maintained a sizeable advantage throughout, with the evergreen veteran Gary Sice sealing the deal with a stunning late goal.
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Báite san eangach ag Gary Sice!🔥Níor thug sé seans ar bith do Andrew Power.
Game, set and match after this brilliant Gary Sice goal!
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Just a few weeks shy of his 40th birthday, Sice showed he still has it with a rasper of a finish into the bottom corner, ending the game as a contest. It's more disappointment for Cathal Clancy's Maigh Cuilinn who have now lost two finals in a row.
It's a different story for Kevin Johnson's Corofin, who advance to the Connacht club championship for the second year in succession with a clash against Padraig Pearses of Roscommon coming up in a fortnight's time.
Young midfielder Patrick Egan was named man-of-the-match afterwards, describing it to TG4 as a 'sweet victory.'
"It was a sweet victory. The conditions were tough. It was a 50:50 battle for every ball, so that's sweet. The ball was slippy. It was all about getting the dirty ball today."
He hailed Corofin's elder statesmen for welcoming him into the team and paid a tribute to Sice, who taught him for three years in primary school. It's a mix of young guns and the older generation, with Sice playing for Corofin before Egan was even born.
"You're learning off the best," said Egan.
"Mike Farragher there, a rolls royce of a midfielder. I do the dirty work beside him really. Then you've Ronan Steede, you learn off all the lads who have came through and won All-Irelands.
"We've just been put into the system and we learn from them.
"Gary taught me in primary school for three years. I learned a bit off him there too. Huge age-difference there," he said.
'It was all about winning the dirty ball today'
Labhair an Laoch na hImeartha Patrick Egan linn tar éis an chluiche ceannais.
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