St Thomas 2-19 Castlegar 0-21

Reigning All-Ireland champions St Thomas remain on course to retain their crown after surviving a do-or-die group clash with the 2011 winners Clarinbridge last evening.

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.

Dónal Óg Cusack believes Henry Shefflin showed a sign of Kilkenny weakness by pointing his late penalty in last Sunday’s All-Ireland final against Galway.

FINAL DEBATE: Will the Galway management pay for ditching so much experience?

An injury-time point from Galway senior David Burke sealed a draw for St Thomas and ensured they and Loughrea qualified for the quarter-finals of the Galway SHC.

PREPARING Garrycastle for a second Leinster club football final in three years in what could be his last game in charge would be enough to keep most managers occupied. But Anthony Cunningham’s been getting accustomed to multi-tasking since he his appointment as John McIntyre’s successor over the Galway hurlers in late October.

Thomas Codd and Murty Dempsey have been chosen to assist new Wexford senior hurling manager Liam Dunne for his first season in charge.

NEW Galway hurling boss Anthony Cunningham has dropped one third of the team which started the All-Ireland quarter-final against Waterford this year in a massive clear-out.

TWO Eoin Forde goals in the space of a minute in the first-half paved the way for All-Ireland club champions Clarinbridge to move top of their group in the Galway SHC.

Waterford 2-23 Galway 2-13

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

TURNING defence into attack, that’s what Galway did on Saturday afternoon in Limerick as they came back from a horrendous start to blow Cork away with a magnificent final surge.

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.

For the second time in three years, Cork boss Denis Walsh was left reflecting on an All-Ireland Championship exit at the hands of Galway.

Galway 2-23 Cork 1-14

IF THE experience of Joe Cooney — one of the finest Galway hurlers of the past three decades — is anything to go by, this Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier knockout game between Galway and Cork in the Gaelic Grounds is sure to have two very definite elements.

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).

FOR a couple of years Ger Farragher has been hammering away at his new house, a massive project he took on himself to fill all those spare hours between work and hurling training.

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.

THE Galway management took my advice about the elaborate warm-up they had in Tullamore on the night they lost against Dublin.

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.

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.

Two-time All-Star Joe Canning has been named at full-forward in the Galway team to face Dublin in Saturday's Leinster SHC semi-final in Tullamore (throw-in 7pm).

Ger Farragher and Iarla Tannian are injury doubts ahead of Galway's Leinster SHC semi-final against Dublin on Saturday.

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.

REFEREES’ chief Mick Curley said that while it was clear Alan McCrabbe’s early ‘point’ for Dublin against Offaly on Sunday should have been signalled wide, match officials would not be getting involved in the Hawk-Eye technology debate.

THE pressure to introduce Hawk-Eye into the GAA championships intensified yesterday after Dublin were awarded a point that clearly went wide in their Leinster SHC quarter-final win over Offaly.

CLONOULTY-Rossmore defender John O’Keeffe will make his senior intercounty hurling championship debut in Sunday’s Munster quarter-final clash against Cork after being named in Tipperary’s starting side last night.

REFEREES won’t have to change their umpires for this year’s All-Ireland championships after all of them passed the new test earlier this month, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

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

Joe Canning is expected to have some involvement in Galway's 'must win' Allianz Hurling League Division 1 clash with Waterford on Sunday.

MOTHER’S DAY yesterday in sunny Salthill, and many of Galway’s matrons took the opportunity to head for Pearse Stadium in hopes of seeing their hurlers bring down the All-Ireland champions, and in the process secure their place in this year’s Allianz Hurling League final.

Galway 1-14 Tipperary 4-23, Pearse Stadium, Allianz Hurling League

EANNA RYAN showed the type of poaching prowess his namesake and uncle was famous for in the late ‘80s to keep Galway’s ambitions of retaining their Allianz Division 1 title.

Dublin 0-14 Galway 2-11

KILKENNY came to Pearse Stadium yesterday looking to preserve the only 100% record in the top division of the Allianz Hurling League, and after an explosive opening four minutes they were very much on track to do exactly that.