Anthony Daly is predicting a “fascinating” encounter in Salthill this weekend when both Galway and Kilkenny will look to put to bed any lingering 1A relegation concerns.<\/p>\n
Winless Offaly look doomed at the foot of the Allianz Hurling League 1A table, but above the Faithful County sit four teams clustered on four points.<\/p>\n
Two of those, Kilkenny and Galway, meet on Saturday afternoon (4.30pm) in a game live on RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n
The Cats come into the game on the back of a defeat at the hands of Cork. Despite scoring just 1-07 from play, it was a battling performance from Derek Lyng’s side against the form team in the league.<\/p>\n
“They were quite lucky not to concede more goals,” Daly told the RT\u00c9 GAA Podcast.<\/p>\n
“The one thing with them is they keep fighting, it\u2019s not in their DNA to down tools. They don\u2019t really do an off-day, they keep battling.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a fascinating game as the Cats are looking over their shoulder. If they don\u2019t get something, they might have to play Tipperary needing a result.<\/p>\n
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Miche\u00e1l Donoghue has overseen two wins from four, with home supporters at Salthill witnessing a defeat to Cork last month before outclassing Waterford last weekend, a match Daly says was further evidence of Donoghue\u2019s second coming in the Tribes hotseat really taking shape.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m really enjoying watching Galway,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I really see leadership developing in the team. I see Miche\u00e1l putting his stamp on things. I see the Loughrea lads starting to bed in. Kieran Hanrahan had a great game at corner-back against Waterford, and the much talked about Cullen Killeen (his All-Ireland club semi-final red card was overturned ensuring he played in the final defeat to Ballygunner) – made his debut. His brother Tiernan was brilliant too.<\/p>\n
“They looked like they were on a mission,” name-checking midfielder Cian Daniels and forward Colm Molloy as others to catch the eye.<\/p>\n
With Gavin Lee and Daithi Burke absent in the win over the Deise, Daly believes the Tribesmen are moving well, yet for all the green shoots, a loss at Pearse Stadium puts them right back in the relegation picture.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m praising Galway all along, but if they lose, they then have to go to Limerick. It\u2019s fascinating.”<\/p>\n
Watch Galway v Kilkenny in the Allianz Hurling League on Saturday from 4.45pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n
Listen to the RT\u00c9 GAA Podcast on the RT\u00c9 Radio Player<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Daly is predicting a “fascinating” encounter in Salthill this weekend when both Galway and Kilkenny will look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-330172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}