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.

FORMER inter-county hurling referee Willie Barrett, who was struck by a man wielding a hurley last April, has abandoned a club match in South Tipperary for the second time in four months.

TWELVE years have elapsed since that glorious season for Galway football when little Corofin won the All-Ireland SFC club championship and the county went on to win Sam Maguire for the first time since the three-in-a-row heroics of the mid-60s.

Tipperary have made seven changes from the side which beat Derry last weekend for this Saturday's National Hurling League showdown with Cork.