The 2017 Galway U21 hurling final takes place on Saturday, as poor fixture-planning and a condensed calendar has resulted in the competition running 12 months behind schedule.

As his name continues to be linked with the Mayo senior manager’s position, Westport have been given no indication that James Horan won’t be remaining on in charge of their senior team.

A lack of support from the Mayo executive from the All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Kildare to recent days compelled Stephen Rochford to step down as senior football manager yesterday.

A breakthrough is expected this week in the impasse which has held up the Galway SHC championship in a row over the eligibility of a player

Galway hurling manager Micheal Donoghue will unveil his new management team when he meets the players for the first time this evening.

This day last week, former Galway defender Greg Kennedy took to Facebook to unload his thoughts about the state of hurling in the county.

Tom McGlinchey will be ratified as the new Waterford senior football manager next week.

The Galway senior hurling championship has been thrown into chaos following the decision of the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) to quash the Galway CCC’s ruling dumping Turloughmore out of the competition.

Turloughmore have lodged an appeal to the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) in a bid to be reinstated to the Galway Senior Hurling Championship.

Galway GAA officials have scheduled the remaining quarter-final in their senior hurling championship for next weekend despite Turloughmore lodging an appeal to the Connacht Council against being thrown out of the competition.

The Galway SHC, which has produced the All-Ireland club champions in 12 of the last 23 years, has been thrown into disarray after one of the quarter-finalists was ejected for fielding an ineligible player.

Goals from Joe Canning and young Ronan O’Meara saw Portumna past Athenry and set up a rematch of last year’s Galway SHC final with Loughrea at the quarter- final stage.

Offaly’s Niall McNamee has spoken of his embarrassment at seeing Tyrone’s state-of-the-art centre of excellence in Garvaghey and claimed more could be done by his own county board to facilitate their county teams.

Galway SHC: Galway hurlers have suffered a huge blow with experienced attacker Niall Healy set to miss all of the Leinster championship campaign with a serious knee injury.

Clare 0-18 Galway 1-15

Beagh 2-12 Turloughmore 1-13

Galway captain Fergal Moore is hopeful of returning to full training next week as he recovers from a head injury sustained against Kilkenny in the league semi-final three weeks ago.

Loughrea 1-12 Turloughmore 0-07

Loughrea, winners in 2006 and runners-up in two of the last three finals, booked their place in the Galway SHC semi-finals with a 2-10 to 1-13 win over neighbours and arch-rivals Mullagh yesterday.

Joe Canning hit 0-13 for Portumna, but it was not enough to stop the three-times All-Ireland club champions crashing out of the Galway SHC at the quarter-final stage to Turloughmore.

Former Galway captain, Cathal Moore, has called for unity amongst the county’s hurling people, saying that expectation needs to be toned down to a more realistic level.

ALL-IRELAND U-14 Féile na nGael champions, Galway’s Turloughmore were pipped 0-6 to 0-5 by Taghmon/Camross of Wexford in the opening round of matches of this year’s competition in Co Galway yesterday.

GALWAY defender Fergal Moore returned to training after a seven-month lay-off last week — but knows he is just one ankle injury away from having to call time on his inter-county career.

GORT, runners-up two years ago and defeated in the semi-finals by Portumna last year, were surprisingly sent crashing out of this year’s Galway SHC title race when they lost to Tynagh Abbey-Duniry.

THE 2010 instalment of hurling’s Féile na nGael festival takes place in Clare this weekend with hurling, camogie and handball teams from the 32 counties and the UK taking part.

REIGNING champions Portumna sealed a place in the quarter-finals of the Galway senior hurling championship when they defeated Kinvara by 2-22 to 1-10 in a repeat of the 2007 county final.

LEAGUE champions Galway have suffered a major blow ahead of the hurling championship with the confirmation experienced defender Fergal Moore has been ruled out for the season.

Galway Senior hurlers have been dealt a major blow, with the news that Fergal Moore has been sidelined for the Championship season.

Former All-Star Damian Hayes has emerged as a serious doubt for Galway’s All-Ireland qualifer against Clare in Ennis.

KILKENNY manager Brian Cody has made one change from the team which beat Galway in the Leinster SHC semi-final to face Dublin in the final at Croke Park tomorrow.

Galway’s preparations for the All-Ireland Qualifiers’ clash with Clare have been hit with the news pacy corner-forward Damien Hayes is a major doubt.

Galway may have to do without defender Fergal Moore for next Saturday's All-Ireland SHC qualifier clash with Laois in Portlaoise.

ERIN’S OWN collected the AIB Kilmacud Crokes Hurling Sevens crown at Glenalbyn on Saturday, defeating a powerful Portumna (Galway) outfit in a tightly-contested final.

Cork club Erin's Own collected the AIB Kilmacud Crokes Hurling Sevens crown at Glenalbyn last night, beating Portumna of Galway in a tightly-contested final.

THE Galway Hurling Board have to deal with another high profile incident after a player was hospitalised following a senior club hurling game on Sunday.

“The GAA President’s Awards are about rewarding the volunteer. It’s about recognising the voluntary efforts of GAA members who seek nothing in return, work that has been going on for over one hundred years.” - GAA president Sean Kelly.

THE All-Ireland Féile na nGael festival of hurling got off to the best possible start in glorious weather throughout Cork city and county yesterday.