‘Where in Tralee did ye stay last night?’, we asked a member of Galway management before their Allianz League Division 1 game in Kerry last Saturday. Indeed we feared we were alone in this fascination until a conversation with an inter-county manager a few weeks back preparing for a road trip to a Saturday night game. ‘Saturday night games are great for the home team - not so good for the away’. Said they had been looking forward to it since the League fixtures were confirmed as it’s Galway’s only floodlit fixture of 2020. While Donegal’s trip to Tralee in March is the longest single piece of travel (862kms round trip), Kerry fill four of the six longest journeys to Croke Park, Omagh, Inniskeen in Monaghan and Castlebar.

Source: Irish Examiner February 07, 2020 16:41 UTC