 On 21 January 2011, media reports suggested that Galvin was poised for a club transfer from Finuge to St Vincent's in Dublin, but his club team-mate and former member of the Kerry management team, Éamonn Fitzmaurice, rubbished those reports via Twitter.Galvin first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kerry minor football team in the late 1990s.He lined out in his only provincial decider in that grade in 1997 with Limerick providing the opposition.