After winning the Connacht FBD League title there recently in Joe Kernan's first match as manager, Galway will return to the Bronx's Gaelic Park for a showdown with New York in the opening round of the All-Ireland Football Championship next summer.

Galway and Tyrone face off in Croke Park today in the glamorous tie of the Round 3 football qualifiers.

An anti-Treaty of Nice referendum group today failed to win a High Court injunction preventing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern from repeating allegations about the source of its funding.

Last year's All-Ireland runners-up Galway have had their preparations for this season's championship rocked by the omission of star midfielder Michael Donnellan and his corner-forward brother John from the team to play Leitrim in the Connacht first round in Tuam on Sunday.