Tuam Stars are the most celebrated club in Galway football.

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.

It’s been a year where sportstars at home and abroad have again had plenty to say for themselves. Fintan O’Toole and John Riordan picked out their best offerings

VICTORIOUS All-Ireland minor winning manager Matt Murphy rounded off a great year when he guided his club Gort to their sixth Galway SHC title with a deserved success in front of a crowd of almost 9,000 at Pearse Stadium yesterday.

ANDY COEN was just two the last time Gort won the Galway senior hurling title, in 1983.

THEY may have missed out on the trip of a lifetime to Australia, but Mark Kerins couldn’t be happier to have another Galway hurling final to look forward to.

ALL-IRELAND club hurling champions Clarinbridge’s qualification for next Sunday’s Galway SHC semi-final against Craughwell has prevented their senior stars from embarking on a trip of a lifetime to Australia this weekend.

THE Kerins’ brothers, Alan and Mark, were outstanding as All-Ireland club champions Clarinbridge eased past Mullagh (2-14 to 0-10) in the Galway SHC quarter-final replay in Athenry.

The Galway hurling team is unchanged ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles.

REQUIEM for a team? The core of the Cork starting 15 who played in this All-Ireland SHC qualifier at the sun-baked Gaelic Grounds on Saturday have been there for the last decade and more.

Galway 2-23 Cork 1-14

Galway are set to field an unchanged team in Saturday's All-Ireland SHC second phase qualifier against Cork at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 4pm).

A LARGER than expected crowd were in sunny Pearse Stadium on Saturday evening for this All-Ireland senior hurling qualifier with both sets of supporters approaching the tie with trepidation.

Galway 4-25 Clare 0-20

Fit-again duo Ger Farragher and Iarla Tannian have been added to the Galway attack for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC second phase qualifier against Clare in Salthill (throw-in 7pm).

FERMANAGH captain Barry Owens has sensationally claimed there were county board officials wishing the team were going to be beaten by London in last Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier.

The critics are rounding on Galway after last night's disappointing Leinster SHC semi-final defeat to Dublin - but manager John McIntyre insists they will close ranks and come back stronger.

Dublin 0-19 Galway 2-07

WHEN Joe Connolly made his now famous All-Ireland-winning speech after Galway had bridged a 57-yr gap in 1980, it seemed to signal the end of what had been a hugely frustrating period for a county that is steeped in hurling history and tradition.

The Galway hurlers will field a much-changed team for their Leinster Championship opener against Westmeath in Mullingar tonight (throw-in 7pm).

GALWAY hurler Ger Farragher believes team-mate Joe Canning will feel the benefit of his enforced rest period during this summer’s championship.

Free-takers Joe Canning and Ger Farragher have been ruled out of the Galway team for Saturday's Leinster SHC opener against Westmeath in Mullingar.

GALWAY concluded their championship preparations when a late goal from substitute Eanna Ryan sealed a six-point win at Athenry on Saturday in a game which was played over three 25-minute periods.

Galway hurler Ger Farragher has welcomed the return of Alan Kerins to the westerners' squad after a two-year absence.

ALAN KERINS was seemingly omnipresent around Croke Park yesterday as Clarinbridge became the latest Galway representatives to All-Ireland club hurling honours.

CAN you imagine the following two things happening within five days of one another — Kilkenny being ahead in a National League game by nine points and losing by four; their senior hurling club champions, O’Loughlin Gaels, being up by five points with only a few minutes to go in the first half of an All-Ireland final, and losing by 12?

Clarinbridge 2-18 O'Loughlin Gaels 0-12

CLARINBRIDGE attacker Alan Kerins has revealed next month’s All-Ireland SHC final against O’Loughlin Gaels will carry greater significance for the club than their last appearance in the decider nine years ago.

THERE may be a tendency in the GAA to liberally bestow classic status on games, but the rush to throw garlands on this All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final is wholly justified.

Clarinbridge (Galway) 3-22 De La Salle (Waterford) 1-27

COUNTY player Aonghus Callanan hit 0-5 from play as city side Liam Mellows, who won the last of their seven Galway SHC titles back in 1970, advanced to the quarter-finals at Athenry yesterday, seeing off Sarsfields 0-13 to 0-11.

A FEW weeks ago in the quarter-final of the Leinster SHC between Galway and Wexford, we were treated to some magic.

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.

GALWAY hurling boss John McIntyre has wielded the axe and drafted nine players into his squad for next season.

SUPPORTERS at the GAA Football All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday will see Ireland’s elite athletes battle it out alongside GAA stars in an inter-provincial Super Sprint Relay as part of the GAA’s 125th Anniversary celebrations.

Cork and Galway hurlers meet today in a reprise of last year’s thunderous qualifiers encounter. But the history between the two goes back a little further than that. Michael Moynihan spoke to protagonists in two earlier clashes this decade.

CLARE manager Mike McNamara will turn to James McInerney to fill the full-back spot against Tipperary in the Munster SHC semi-final next Sunday with Conor Cooney ruled out through injury.

FORMER U21 All-Ireland winning captain Kevin Hynes makes his championship debut for Galway on Sunday when they take on Laois in the Leinster SHC at Portlaoise.

GER LOUGHNANE and John McIntyre are two men who know a thing or two about making headlines.

UKRAINE’S Andriy Naumov led home a record 11,700 runner entry yesterday in the Lifestyle Sports adidas Dublin Marathon — the 29th running of the event.

Cork 0-23 Galway 2-15

Galway manager Ger Loughnane has made four changes in personnel and a number of positional switches to his team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SHC qualifier clash with Cork (Semple Stadium, throw-in 7pm).