Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Galway have the mix right and their time is now

Weekend learnings: what the first two provincial football finals showed us.

Dylan McHugh pulled off a match-winning block in the Connacht final against Mayo. At the end of last year's All-Ireland final, Galway were on the wrong end of a heroic Armagh block. Rather than spend the winter sulking, they appear to have worked on the skill. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

What an intense and enjoyable battle we had in Castlebar on Sunday. The Munster final ran along more predictable lines but there were still plenty of talking points from the weekend, more so in Connacht than in Killarney.

Another Galway group of death