{"id":462320,"date":"2026-05-22T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462320\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:41:10","slug":"galway-vs-kildare-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-preview-with-gareth-bradshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462320\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway vs Kildare (All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Preview with Gareth Bradshaw)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks following their defeat to Roscommon in the Connacht Final, Galway&#8217;s senior footballers begin their quest for All-Ireland silverware this Saturday (23rd May) when they host Kildare in Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Memories of one of Galway&#8217;s great days will come flooding back (the 1998 Final) but the Tribesmen have a very impressive record against the Lilywhites.\u00a0 They haven&#8217;t lost to Kildare in competitive action since 1985, and are aiming to go 15 games unbeaten against the Leinster side.<\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the game, former Galway footballer Gareth Bradshaw, who scored in the last championship meeting between the two counties in 2018, looked ahead to the game with Galway Bay FM&#8217;s Darren Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Throw-in at Pearse Stadium on Saturday is 7.30pm and we&#8217;ll have LIVE coverage here on Galway Bay FM.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-221574\" height=\"1080\" width=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/galway-vs-kildare-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-preview-with-gareth-bradshaw.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Throw-in at Pearse Stadium on Saturday is 7.30pm and we&#8217;ll have LIVE coverage here on Galway Bay FM.<\/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":"Two weeks following their defeat to Roscommon in the Connacht Final, Galway&#8217;s senior footballers begin their quest for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[200063,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-462320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-galway-vs-kildare-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-preview-with-gareth-bradshaw","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462320","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=462320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}