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Connacht Women travel to Belfast on Saturday (2pm) with a renewed pep in their step to face Ulster in this final Vodafone Interprovincial Championship fixture.

It was a game that had been anticipated for some time. The battle of the top two teams in the JP Flanagan Leinster U20 League with the result having a major bearing on where the league title would go. Corinthians and Dublin University were the teams coming into this battle, and after eighty minutes of sublime rugby from both sides, it was Corinthians who came out on top by just a single point.

Ever since girls’ and women’s rugby was established at Galway Corinthians RFC, the search for silverware has sometimes been fruitless. Some years ago, plate titles would have been their lot despite the coaches’, parents’, and players’ efforts.

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.

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Connacht will be hoping to avoid their sixth successive defeat when they host Munster at the Sportsground on New Year’s Day.

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).

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ST. THOMAS’ 2-12

The final four are now known in the race for the Galway Senior Hurling Championship after last weekend’s quarter-finals. Three of last year’s semi-finalists are back to the same stage again, with Turloughmore completing the line up after comfortably overcoming Castlegar last Saturday.