Galway midfielder Ciarán Duggan believes the squad is stronger than last year as more fringe players are coming through to make their mark.

Eight Donie Smith points gave Roscommon their fifth FBD Connacht football league title and sends them into next Saturday’s NFL Division 1 opener against Mayo on a real high.

Twenty years ago Ray Silke had the unique distinction of leading both his club and county up the Hogan Stand steps to collect senior All-Ireland titles in Croke Park. Two decades on he is still leading by example — but in a very different capacity

Mayo midfielder Seamus O’Shea is set to miss the remainder of the season having yesterday undergone surgery on his shoulder.

Galway midfielder Ciaran Duggan has emerged as a doubt for their opening Super 8 meeting with Kerry.

When players have real belief that their team is good enough to win a Championship game, then we see good decision-making and football played with a real purpose, writes John Divilly.

Mike Casey is named at full-back on the Limerick team for tomorrow’s Munster SHC clash with Cork, the sole change to the side which overcame Tipperary.

The “sweetest”, declared corner-back Eoghan Kerin on his return to the Galway dressing-room early on Sunday evening.

It was, without doubt, one of the poorest games of football between these two great rivals in living memory. 

Mayo 0-12 Galway 1-12

On Damien Comer’s last visit to MacHale Park, referee Paddy Neilan sent him for an early shower.

Both Mayo and Galway have championship debutants for Sunday’s Connacht SFC quarter-final clash in MacHale Park in Castlebar (4pm).

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.

Let’s be honest, all Galwegians were all a little nervous settling into our seats yesterday afternoon. 

Galway football manager Kevin Walsh said he notices the circle of life as he calls players into his squad whose fathers he lined out with and against in his own career.

Reflex Plastics Technology has found a foolproof recession idea — recycling agricultural bale wraps into high-grade material which can be used to make plastic film or refuse sacks and thereby cutting waste, writes Trish Dromey