Galway schedule quarter-final

Galway GAA officials have scheduled the remaining quarter-final in their senior hurling championship for next weekend despite Turloughmore lodging an appeal to the Connacht Council against being thrown out of the competition.

The Turloughmore club said they are “deeply disappointed” that the Galway CCC overturned the outcome of a group game after an investigation found they had used an ineligible player.

Defender Matthew Keating played in the United States during the summer having been granted an inter-county transfer. A stipulation of that type of transfer is that a player can’t feature in two different championships in the same year. He played in Turloughmore’s 1-19 to 0-16 group win over Beagh which secured a quarter-final place against Ardrahan. That game ended in a draw and with the Galway CCC overturning the outcome of the group game, Beagh are now scheduled to play Ardrahan in the remaining quarter-final next Sunday.