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When someone who has played a significant role in your life dies, it naturally heralds a time for some reflection and their death also holds a mirror up to our own mortality.

Cortoon Shamrocks overcame a fancied Kilkerrin-Clonberne side in Tuam Stadium on Sunday to regain senior status at the second attempt.

Cortoon-Shamrocks and Kilkerrin-Clonberne will go head to head in the Galway intermediate football final with promotion to senior status the prize.

This was a period of football success in Galway, contesting three All Ireland finals in four seasons. Meath, too, were confident - this their third All Ireland final in six years, and having beaten Cork in 1999 when they won their ninth title. However, John O'Mahony's Tribesmen prevailed to claim their 13th crown. Interestingly neither county has contested an All Ireland football final since with Kerry and Dublin dominating.

The most common comment by far at last Friday’s reunion of the Galway football squad from 1998 was – “It is hard to believe, it is 20 years ago.”

This year’s Claregalway Hotel Galway Senior and Intermediate Football dream teams were announced this week.

The county senior football semi-finals are down for decision this Sunday at Tuam Stadium in what promises to be an exciting double-header.

The race is on to find the fastest team in the West of Ireland as Galway Samaritans launch their 40th Anniversary Cyclathon challenge.

The race is on to find the fastest team in the west of Ireland as Galway Samaritans launches its 40th anniversary cyclathon challenge.

The current Corofin side’s quest to become the first panel in the club’s history to win three-in-a-row county senior titles continued last Sunday when they defeated Cortoon Shamrocks by 2-11 to 0-7 in the county semi-final at Tuam Stadium.