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For the fourth time, including replays, neighbours Loughrea and St Thomas’ will go toe-to-toe for Galway hurling’s biggest prize on Saturday evening in Pearse Stadium (6pm). And if history tells us anything, the margins will once again be razor thin.

There is a familiar look to this year’s Galway Senior Hurling Championship quarter-finals, with six of last season’s final eight back for another shot at the Tom Callanan Cup. Craughwell and Oranmore/Maree are the only new faces at this stage, replacing Cappataggle and Castlegar.

The Galway Senior Hurling Championship is heating up as Round 2 throws up a series of mouth-watering clashes across all four groups.

With two rounds of the Allianz National League left to play, the Galway senior hurlers must win their remaining group games against both Dublin and Limerick to have any chance of qualifying for a coveted semi-final spot.

A score for the ages by Éanna Burke secured St. Thomas’ a much-deserved second All-Ireland senior hurling club title last Sunday in Croke Park after a titanic tussle with Kilkenny’s O’Loughlin Gaels.

St. Thomas’ steadfast determination to etch their name on the Tommy Moore cup for the second time will face a severe test on Sunday afternoon in Croke Park when they take on Leinster champions O’Loughlin Gaels from Kilkenny in the All-Ireland senior hurling club final, which throws in at 1.30pm.

St. Thomas’ will compete in a senior All-Ireland club hurling semi-final for the seventh time in their history next Saturday evening when they travel to O’Moore Park in Portlaoise to take on Munster champions and competition favourites Ballygunner of Waterford (throw-in 7.30pm).

ST. THOMAS’ 2-12

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.

St Thomas’ and Loughrea will contest the Galway senior hurling final after both clubs recorded convincing wins over Sarsfields and Clarinbridge respectively in the semi-final double header at a windswept Pearse Stadium on Sunday.