Veteran Galway forward Pádraic Joyce says that the county's new senior football manager must be given a three-year term in order to stabilise the team.

Senior squad members Joe Canning, James Skehill and Eoin Forde have been included in Galway's starting 15 for tomorrow's Bord Gais Energy All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship semi-final against Clare at Semple Stadium (throw-in 2.30pm).

FOR those who snatched a few hours sleep after the celebrations in the Citywest Hotel by more than a thousand supporters, the feeling of jubilation for newly-crowned All-Ireland Club football champions Caltra yesterday was almost as good as for those who partied through the night.

VAL DALY would probably have had something very different to say instead of wishing everybody ‘Happy Christmas’ after leading Mountbellew to victory over Milltown in the Galway football championship of final of 1986.