A few weeks ago, Ger Bowens made the short journey from his home in Milltown to collect his son in Claremorris. He happened to be wearing a Galway jersey. Almost as soon as he set foot on the street, he heard someone growl at him, “Mayo’s Year.” He turned to see a boy of about eight years old fixing him in the boldest stare he could muster.
The Milltown man laughs at the image. “He thought that it was his right because I was walking around his town in a Galway shirt.”
Galway-Mayo: As a sports rivalry it has never neatly fit into any category. For decades, Galway city has been a natural magnet for people from both counties, gravitating there for college, for work, for life. There’s a census to be done on the number of Mayoites transplanted in Galway and vice versa.
The majori …