Corofin manager Kevin O’Brien is confident former county players Micheál Lundy and Kieran Fitzgerald will be back fit in time for their defence of the Galway SFC in two weeks.

There is a total lack of education surrounding concussion at GAA club level, according to former Galway footballer Cormac Bane, who has been forced to hang up his boots at the age of 35 following two bangs to the face which have considerably hindered the quality of his everyday life.

Corofin’s five-year reign as Galway SFC champions looked to have ended yesterday, but captain Micheál Lundy rescued them with an equaliser in the fourth minute of added time to force a replay and deny a determined Mountbellew/Moylough at Pearse Stadium.

Reigning Galway SHC champions Liam Mellows will face Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry in the quarter-finals this year.

The Galway footballers will enjoy an uninterrupted six-week run-in to their Connacht SFC quarter-final against Mayo, with not a single club championship fixture scheduled for April.

Corofin have won all the main prizes in club football. Their focus now is on breaking new ground. The club has never managed five successive Galway SFC titles. 

New Mayo manager Stephen Rochford said he will be using next year’s league campaign to experiment as much as possible and fashion a team for a big championship assault.

Michael Lundy and Martin Farragher found the net for Corofin as the All-Ireland club champions beat Tuam Stars 2-9 to 0-11 in a tense Galway SFC quarter-final replay.

The favourite to take over from Alan Mulholland as Galway manager, Kevin Walsh, saw his Micheal Breathnach side crash out of the Galway SFC yesterday as Salthill/Knocknacarra prevailed on a of 3-10 to 0-13 scoreline in atrocious conditions at Moycullen.

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Mayo manager James Horan has stopped short of saying Gavin Duffy is ready to make his senior inter-county debut against Galway in the Connacht final, but he says he’s delighted with the progress of his "most improved player".

Galway defender Gareth Bradshaw was sent off for the second week in a row when he received a second yellow card as his club Moycullen were defeated by Kilconly in the first round of the Galway SFC yesterday.

Salthil/Knocknacarra 0-12 Tuam Stars 0-07

Corofin remain on course to pick up their fourth Galway SFC crown in five years after surviving a Paul Conroy-led comeback by St James at Tuam Stadium yesterday.

Padraic Joyce rolled back the clock with a blistering hat-trick as Killererin sealed their spot in the Galway SFC quarter-finals yesterday.

The most prolific winners of the Galway SFC, Tuam Stars, blasted their way past Killanin and into the third round of the 2012 campaign in Pearse Stadium yesterday.

ANY notions that Corofin were going to relinquish their dominance of the Galway SFC were blown away at Tuam Stadium yesterday as they produced a stunning display that has now seen them lift 11 titles in 21 years.

TUAM STARS, the most prolific winners of the Galway SFC but without a win since 1984, reached their first final since 1995 after ousting favourites Salthill/Knocknacarra in this replay at Tuam Stadium yesterday.

COROFIN, denied a first ever three-in-a-row of Galway SFC titles last year, advanced to the semi-finals of this year’s title race with a replay win over neighbours Claregalway at Tuam Stadium on Saturday evening.

CORK county board chairman Jerry O’Sullivan, vice-chairman Bob Ryan and secretary Frank Murphy will all sit on the committee charged withselecting the county’s next senior hurling manager.

GALWAY football officials are hopeful of restarting their club championship early next month despite a row dragging on between two clubs over a player’s eligibility.

THE Galway senior football championship has been thrown into disarray as a new appeal is to be heard into the eligibility of a player.

CLARE boss Ger O’Loughlin has several injury worries to contend with ahead of next Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Tipperary in the Gaelic Grounds.

The provincial club Football Championships got underway in Ulster and Connacht today, while there was also plenty of county football final action across the country.

GALWAY football fans will have to wait at least another week to find out the identity of their new manager.

MIDFIELDER Niall Coleman has emerged as a doubt for Galway’s Connacht semi-final showdown against either Mayo or Sligo next month after suffering a leg injury playing for his club yesterday.

Galway manager Joe Kernan has been boosted with the news that attacker Sean Armstrong has made a return to full fitness, ahead of his side's Connacht SFC semi-final against either Mayo or Sligo next month.

Galway manager Peter Ford has included six of the U21 All-Ireland-winning team for next Sunday's Connacht football championship opener against New York.

A fixtures backlog in the Galway SFC is threatening to leave the county without a representative in the Connacht championship.