Seán Heffernan

[Seán Heffernan @seanhefo]

@BrophShane 1 of the more sensible posts today. The changes from 2018 have really widened the gap. 1 system change that may help is dismantle the minor and u20 provincial championships, set up some form of open draw, try get the Leinster counties more competitive.

[Karol Dillon @KarolDillon8]

Shane Walsh is an archetype for young footballers with respect to two sidedness for upper and lower limb skills. Right pick up, right hop, left solo, left hop, left solo, right hop, left solo, right kick pass. Always the appropriate limb - depending on where the defender is.

[Seán Heffernan @seanhefo]

@Ogie_Halfhand 30k there for Galway Tipp in 2003

[Galway GAA Official @Galway_GAA]

Only 2 days to go!⏳

Galway U20 hurling captain Donnacha Campbell speaks to the media ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland U20 Hurling Final clash with Clare 🇶🇦🇶🇦

Throw-in: 2PM
📍 Semple Stadium, Thurles

🎟️ Tickets available — https://t.co/ZWiK8Nb1yX

@SupermacsIRE

[Galway GAA Official @Galway_GAA]

4 days to go ⏳

Galway U20 hurling manager Gavin Keary speaks to the media ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland U20 Hurling Final clash with Clare 🇶🇦🇶🇦

Throw-in: 2PM
📍 Semple Stadium, Thurles

🎟️ Tickets available — https://t.co/ZWiK8Nb1yX

@SupermacsIRE

[Galway GAA Coaching & Games @CoachingGalway]

Congratulations to Oranmore-Maree on winning the Justin Cheevers Shield Final last night 🏆👏 Hard luck to Turloughmore after a strong effort

[Galway GAA Coaching & Games @CoachingGalway]

Justin Cheevers Shield & Toddie Byrne Shield Finals tonight 🏆

Best of luck to all teams!

[Galway GAA Coaching & Games @CoachingGalway]

Best of luck to all the teams competing in the Féile finals today in Kenny Park, Athenry 🏆

[Galway GAA Coaching & Games @CoachingGalway]

Loughrea come out on top against Athenry in the Toddie Byrne Cup semi-final 🔥

They march on to the final where Michael Cusacks await.

[Galway GAA Coaching & Games @CoachingGalway]

Killimordaly get the win and book their place in the Justin Cheevers Cup final 💪🔥

They’ll face Kilconieron in the final 🏆

[Galway GAA Coaching & Games @CoachingGalway]

Best of luck to all teams in the Féile semi-finals this evening! 🏑
A lovely evening to get out, soak up the atmosphere, and enjoy some great games of hurling ☀️

[Seán Heffernan @seanhefo]

Start of the 2nd round. The 1st was a nightmare...

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.

That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.

That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.

People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds.

80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana.

The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load.
They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined.

In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies.

The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative.

The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced.

Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record.

This is not in the advertising.

[Seán Heffernan @seanhefo]

@kieran_kigr @TrevorFarrell12 No mention that growth not meeting demand on almost all farms

[Thomas Niblock @thomasniblock]

“100%”

Double All-Ireland Tipperary winning manager Liam Sheedy believes it’s much more difficult now for young people growing up. It led to this answer…

🎙️The GAA Social
🎧Listen here: https://t.co/Cg31EMTT6x
📺Watch here: https://t.co/bYGFigPlK6

[Seán Heffernan @seanhefo]

@StephenGleeson_ You might want to check how to spell his name and surname 👌

[St Michaels GAA Club @StMichaelsGAA]

Statement from St. Michael’s GAA & LGFA Club in relation to Salthill-Knocknacarra GAA’s proposed development of pitches at Keeraun/Mincloon.

[Seán Heffernan @seanhefo]

Making a start a month later than last year @PastureBase

[Rahoon Newcastle GAA Club @RahoonNcGaa]

A Huge Rahoon Welcome for Sophie Flannery!

We are delighted to welcome Sophie Flannery to Rahoon Newcastle as our new Coaching Development Officer for 2026! 🤝

Sophie has already been busy hitting the ground running! She recently met with Cian O'Toole (Galway GDA) and Shane Burke (RN GAA Schools Coordinator) to finalize an exciting coaching schedule for the year ahead.

🏆 8 City Schools - Hurling & Camogie Coaching:
We are thrilled to be bringing our games to the following schools this year:
📍 Bushypark NS
📍 St. John’s NS
📍 Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh
📍 Buaile Beag NS
📍 Galway Educate Together
📍 Scoil Fhursa
📍 Knocknacarra Educate Together NS
📍 Scoil Bhríde

This is a massive step forward for our youth development and the future of our club. 🪵✨

Best of luck in the new role, Sophie! We are all behind you. 👏