Corkman Peter Creedon is expected to be ratified as the new Tipperary senior football manager next week, replacing John Evans.

It’s hard not to be impressed by the way Tyrone are going about their business and while it can be foolhardy to be basing championship notions on league form, the displays being produced by Mickey Harte’s men can’t be ignored either.

Galway 0-13 Tyrone 1-14

Galway 1-12 Meath 1-11

Connacht 0-13 Ulster 3-16

This was a strange encounter at Pearse Stadium yesterday.

Allianz Football League Division 2: Galway 1-8 Louth 0-11

You know that old chestnut about the attendance of your funeral being largely dependent on the weather?

DERRY 1-11 GALWAY 1-15

New Galway manager Alan Mulholland has selected his team for Sunday's Allianz Football League Division 2 encounter with Derry at Celtic Park (throw-in 2.30pm).

CORNER-FORWARD Michael Martin fired two excellent goals as Galway wrapped up their FBD League campaign with a win over Sligo at Tuam Stadium yesterday.

Defending champions Mayo wrapped up the group stages of the FBD League with a 0-14 to 1-9 victory over Roscommon in Ballinlough today.

NICKY JOYCE scored three points on his return to the Galway side for the first time since 2010 as the Tribesmen defeated London in the FBD League at Ballinasloe yesterday.

Four goals in an eight-minute spell from Mayo's Danny Kirby was the highlight of the day in the Connacht FBD League as Mayo, Leitrim, Galway and Sligo claimed victories this afternoon.

HISTORY will be made tonight in Ballyhaunis, Mayo when the Connacht Council’s Centre of Excellence hosts it’s first matches — the opening games of the FBD League.

GALWAY’S preparations for the Connacht football championship received a major boost yesterday when star forward Padraic Joyce returned to club action after an ankle injury.

JARLATH’S in a Hogan Cup decider is no rare occurrence. Today the Tuam school competes in its 25th final in this competition.

FORMER Galway great and selector Ja Fallon has admitted the county’s senior footballers are in crisis — but insists all is not lost for the Tribesmen if they lose their Allianz Division One status.

YOU know that a team is being utterly humiliated when the opposition manager starts taking off many of his best performers with ten minutes remaining.

ANOTHER defeat for Galway, then, but the visitors didn’t leave Newry last night without attempting to dispel the rumours of discontent that followed them to Ulster earlier in the day.

Down 2-11 Galway 1-09

GALWAY football was last night battling reports of discontent in their ranks after co-captain Kieran Fitzgerald and midfielder Niall Coleman quit the panel.

KILLERERIN have not given up hope that former Footballer of the Year Padraic Joyce might still be available for Sunday’s Connacht club semi-final against newly crowned Mayo champions Ballintubber.

The provincial club Football Championships got underway in Ulster and Connacht today, while there was also plenty of county football final action across the country.

Joe Kernan is due to meet Galway County Board officials in the coming days to discuss his future as the county's senior football manager.

GALWAY boss Joe Kernan will meet with county officials next week to discuss his future.

FEW in the 5,000 at the Galway SFC semi-finals last September who gave Joe Kernan a rapturous welcome when, in an impromptu moment by football board chairman John Joe Holleran, he was introduced to the crowd, could have envisaged the Tribesmen’s 2010 championship would implode in such a dramatic fashion.

CORK look certain to have to plan without Donncha O’Connor for Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier round 2 tie against Cavan at Páirc Uí Chaoimh as the attacker continues to be hampered by an Achilles tendon problem while Paul Kerrigan is another doubt with a hamstring worry.

GALWAY can have absolutely no complaints after their one point defeat on Saturday to a vibrant, fit and hugely committed Sligo outfit.

ONE giant leap for Sligo fans – but just another small step for Kevin Walsh in his continued revamping of Sligo from plucky underdogs to serious contenders.

IT was a weekend of trials and tribulations for the Old Firm of Connacht football yet at the close of business in Pearse Stadium yesterday, Galway were still just about standing.

Galway manager Joe Kernan is demanding a big improvement from his charges this Sunday as they look to overcome Sligo and qualify for the Connacht SFC final on July 18.

SLIGO boss Kevin Walsh has named an unchanged side for Sunday’s Connacht SFC semi-final against Galway in Pearse Stadium.

Galway manager Joe Kernan has made five changes to his team for Sunday afternoon's Connacht SFC semi-final against Sligo at Pearse Stadium (throw-in 2pm).

Galway 2-13 New York 0-12

GALWAY were pushed all the way by 13-man New York in a physical encounter at Gaelic Park but the biggest shock in decades was prevented by a vintage display from Páraic Joyce.

Galway football manager Joe Kernan has selected Michael Meehan as the county's captain for the Championship campaign, however the Caltra clubman will be absentee when the Tribesmen take on New York on Sunday.

Galway 1-12 Derry 2-13, Pearse Stadium

Dublin 0-14 Galway 1-14

NFL DIVISION 1:

THOSE looking for entertainment at sandy Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday got plenty of it.

Cork 1-19 Galway 1-17

Galway manager Joe Kernan has made changes from his goalkeeper through to the full-forward line for tonight's Allianz NFL Division 1 meeting with Cork at Páirc Uí Rinn (throw-in 7.30pm).

GALWAY may have gone on a scoring spree at Pearse Stadium yesterday but Joe Kernan was not getting carried away after he saw his side put Monaghan to the sword.