{"id":383002,"date":"2026-04-05T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383002\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:14:08","slug":"bank-of-ireland-connacht-junior-cup-final-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383002\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Of Ireland Connacht Junior Cup Final Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creggs face Tuam in the Bank of Ireland Connacht Junior Cup Final this Bank Holiday Monday at Dexcom Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first meeting of the sides in the decider since 1978 when Creggs beat Tuam 9-6 to claim their first ever Junior Cup.<\/p>\n<p>It is also Tuam&#8217;s first appearance in the final since that day, a wait of 47 years.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the final on Monday, Galway Bay FM broadcast a special preview from both clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Higgins and Kevin Dwyer were in Reapys in Tuam and John Mulligan was in O&#8217;Roarkes in Creggs.<\/p>\n<p>Part One &#8211; Tuam<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-217673\" height=\"588\" width=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bank-of-ireland-connacht-junior-cup-final-preview.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part Two Creggs<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-217674\" height=\"437\" width=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775384048_265_bank-of-ireland-connacht-junior-cup-final-preview.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Staying with Creggs, John spoke to Declan &#8220;Rasher&#8221; Brandon who was captain of the Creggs team that won the cup in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>John first asked him about his memories of that day.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Preview, John got a chance to catch up with the two captains ahead of finals day.<\/p>\n<p>He first spoke to Creggs Captain James Brandon who told him that it has been a great twelve months for the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John then spoke to Tuam Captain Owen Halion who said that there is a big buzz around Tuam ahead of the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Galway Bay FM \u2013 your Number 1 station for <a id=\"LPlnk143958\" title=\"https:\/\/www.galwaybayfm.ie\/sports\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galwaybayfm.ie\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Sport<\/a>. For the latest updates, results and fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Listen live\u00a0\u00a0to Galway Bay FM Sport on the hour from 7am to 6pm (Monday to Friday).<\/p>\n<p>For all your local, national and international sports commentaries, fixtures and results check out Over the Line\u00a0on Fridays from 7pm to 10pm, Saturday and Sunday Sports from 1pm \u2013 6pm and Over the Line on Mondays from 8pm to 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>Check us out on <a id=\"LPlnk703121\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GBFMSports\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GBFMSports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Facebook<\/a>, <a id=\"LPlnk529080\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galwaybayfm\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galwaybayfm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and <a id=\"LPlnk621101\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gbfmsports\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gbfmsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creggs face Tuam in the Bank of Ireland Connacht Junior Cup Final this Bank Holiday Monday at Dexcom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[170805,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-383002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-connacht-junior-cup-final","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383002","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=383002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}