{"id":496839,"date":"2026-06-12T23:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496839\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:20:16","slug":"galway-vs-westmeath-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-preview-with-gary-odonnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496839\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway vs Westmeath (All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Preview with Gary O&#8217;Donnell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks after beating Kildare, Galway stand 70 minutes away from reaching an All-Ireland senior football quarter-final in Croke Park, as they host Leinster champions Westmeath in Round 2A on Sunday (14th June 2026).<\/p>\n<p>The Tribesmen will be favourites but the Lake County have caused problems in the past, and will be full of confidence having beaten Longford, Meath, Kildare, Dublin and Cavan to reach this stage.\u00a0 While Galway won thier previous championship meeting in 2024 (1-12 to 0-11), Westmeath&#8217;s last visit to Salthill saw them leave victors in 2006 (1-8 to 0-10).<\/p>\n<p>Former Galway captain Gary O&#8217;Donnell joined Galway Bay FM&#8217;s Darren Kelly on &#8216;Over The Line&#8217; to look ahead to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Throw-in at Pearse Stadium on Sunday is 2pm and we&#8217;ll have LIVE coverage here on Galway Bay FM.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-223441\" height=\"1063\" width=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/galway-vs-westmeath-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-preview-with-gary-o-039-donnell.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Throw-in at Pearse Stadium on Sunday is 2pm 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":"Three weeks after beating Kildare, Galway stand 70 minutes away from reaching an All-Ireland senior football quarter-final in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-496839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496839","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=496839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}