He plays Gaelic football with his local club Finuge, his divisional side Feale Rangers and, between 2003 and 2014, for the Kerry county team.
Galvin has written a weekly fashion column for the Irish Independent newspaper and presented a show on Radio Kerry.
[1][2] He briefly managed the Wexford footballers but left the role amid the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games.
In 2002 Galvin tasted victory for the first time as a footballer when Finuge qualified for the final of the county junior championship.
Galvin's side nearly kicked the match away with an enormous wides tally, however, after a period of extra-time Finuge regained the title on a score line of 1–10 to 1–7.
The game was an exciting but one-sided affair, and Galvin picked up a second Munster junior winners' medal after a 2–13 to 3–4 victory.
Galvin gave an outstanding display in that game and the northerners were easily brushed aside on a score line of 1–14 to 0–6.
In 2007 Galvin lined out with divisional side Feale Rangers in the final of the county senior championship.
The form book was torn up as Lixnaw powered to a 1–12 to 2–6 victory and a third county winners' medal for Galvin.
Galvin joined the Kerry senior football team in the early 2000s, however, he had to wait for a number of years before establishing himself on the starting fifteen.
Many criticised this tactic as a means of stopping talented footballers like Ó Sé and Colm Cooper from playing but few could deny its effectiveness.
An exciting 3–11 to 1–6 victory saw Kerry claim the title and Galvin picked up a first National Football League winners' medal.
The points kept coming from Galvin's team and an injury-time Michael Conroy goal was nothing but a consolation for Mayo.
Following this win Kerry cruised through the All-Ireland series to reach another championship decider with Tyrone providing the opposition.
Galvin's side could only manage three points in the opening half, however, the introduction of Eoin Brosnan transformed the team.
At the end of the seventy minutes a 2–12 to 0–10 score line gave Kerry their 18th National League title and a second for Galvin.
At half-time it looked as though the Ulser hoodoo would strike again but Kerry blitzed the men from the orchard county in the second half and won by a score of 3–15 to 1–13.
An unbelievable opening first-half saw Kerry go 2–4 to no score ahead after just ten minutes, courtesy of goals by Declan O'Sullivan and Kieran Donaghy.
The subsequent All-Ireland final was an historic occasion as Kerry faced Cork in the very first all-Munster championship decider.
What should have been a dream season for the Finuge man, particularly since Kerry were attempting to capture a first three-in-a-row of All-Ireland titles since 1986, 'the Kingdom's' championship opener against Clare was a dark moment for Galvin.
The game was a largely low-key affair except for one controversial incident between referee Paddy Russell and Galvin.
The incident has been described as due to the "frustration" he felt at being booked "for highlighting to the linesman the blatant and protracted pulling and dragging he was subjected to off the ball by his Clare marker".
Galvin and his squad later lined out in the All-Ireland quarter-final and thrashed Dublin before overcoming Meath in a disappointing semi-final.
In June 2010, Galvin was given an eight-week ban after the 2010 Munster Senior Football Championship semi-final replay win over Cork.
[31] The GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee proposed the suspension after reviewing video evidence of Galvin putting his finger into Eoin Cadogan's mouth.
On 2 August 2019, Wexford GAA announced Galvin as its senior football manager on a two-year term, succeeding Paul McLoughlin.
[40][41] Galvin was a secondary school teacher of Geography and Gaeilge in Coláiste Chríost Rí, Cork and St. Brendan's College, Killarney.
[46] In October 2011, Galvin allegedly assaulted the impressionist Oliver Callan and his producer James McDonald[47][48] late at night in Kehoe's Pub, Central Dublin.
[1] The media speculated on the reason behind the alleged incident, reporting that Callan had recently mimicked Galvin asking Taoiseach Enda Kenny to man-up by giving him a body-wax on Green Tea[50] and that Galvin had texted Callan before an appearance on The Saturday Night Show in relation to "gay jibes" the satirist had directed at him.
[53] On 6 December 2011, Galvin spoke of the encounter during an interview on The Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM.