Trio back to boost Galway chances

Galway manager Peter Ford has been heartened by the return to training of three key players ahead of his side's crucial NFL Division 1B tie against Kildare on Sunday.

Key defender Kieran Fitzgerald and the talismanic Meehan brothers, Declan and Michael, have all returned to the panel after time out to grieve for Mairead Meehan, the brothers' sister and Fitzgerald's girlfriend, who passed away recently after a long illness.