PICTURES: Galway GAA fans storm Dublin taking over Croke Park
The place is flooded with maroon and white
The day has arrived and Galway fans have been storming the capital since early Sunday morning soaking up as much of the All Ireland Final Hurling day atmosphere as possible.
Eager GAA-GAA Galway fans have been setting sail from their homes on 5am trains while some supporters who made the journey on Saturday were only getting out the door of Coppers at that time.
Fans are being advised to get in or around Drumcondra as soon as possible as heavy traffic delays are expected.
Here’s some of the colour from around Croke Park and back at base here as maroon and white fills the air.
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How are both teams lining-up
GALWAY: Darach Fahy; Joshua Ryan, Cillian Trayers, Darren Morrissey (Captain); Padraic Mannion, Daithi Burke, Ronan Glennon;, Tiernan Killeen, Gavin Lee; Tom Monaghan, Cathal Mannion, Darragh Neary; Conor Whelan, Jason Rabbitte, Aaron Niland.
SUBS: Eanna Murphy, Shane Morgan, Fintan Burke, Cian Daniels, Cianan Fahy, Conor Cooney, John Fleming, Sean Linnane, Cillian Whelan, Colm Molloy, Brian Concannon.
LIMERICK: Nickie Quaid; Sean Finn, Mike Casey, Barry Nash; Diarmaid Byrnes, William O’Donoghue, Kyle Hayes; Adam English, Cian Lynch (Captain); Gearoid Hegarty, Aidan O’Connor, Cathal O’Neill; Aaron Gillane, Shane O’Brien, Peter Casey.
SUBS: Colin Ryan, Colin Coughlan, Fintan Fitzgerald, Matthew Fitzgerald, Hugh Flanagan, Ethan Hurley, Darragh Langan, Dan Morrissey, Tom Morrissey, Darragh O’Donovan and David Reidy.
Who is the referee?
CORK native Colm Lyons takes charge of the big game.His score umpires on the day will be Ciarán Hanley from the Brian Dillons Club, Jim McEvoy from Blarney, Philip Mackey and Finian Mullane, both from the Nemo Rangers club.
His line umpires on the day will be Wexford’s James Owens and Dublin’s Chris Mooney. James will be the standby referee, and the Sideline Official will be Niall Malone from Clare. David Grogan from Tipperary will be the Hawkeye Official.