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It was all the way back in November 2005 when Salthill/Knocknacarra last got their hands on the Shane McGettigan Cup. That afternoon, former Mayo star Maurice Sheridan accepted the trophy at Pearse Stadium on behalf of a star-studded outfit whose home ground is situated just a stone’s throw away.

For the third time in five seasons, Maigh Cuilinn and Salthill/Knocknacarra lock horns in the Galway Senior Football Championship final, both carrying unfinished business into Sunday’s latest instalment of their modern rivalry.

Four teams remain standing in the race for the Frank Fox Cup, with defending champions Maigh Cuilinn facing Annaghdown and familiar foes Salthill/Knocknacarra and Corofin colliding in this weekend’s Galway Senior Football Championship semi-finals.

Galway travel to Croke Park for an All-Ireland quarter-final showdown with Dublin this Sunday.

Is it too early to be talking about a possible football and hurling double? Almost certainly. But where’s the fun in being sensible?

Galway's senior footballers travel to Páirc Seán MacDiarmada to take on Leitrim in the Connacht Senior Football Championship semi-final this Saturday.

With the Connacht championship now firmly on the horizon, attention inevitably turns to what Galway’s starting XV might look like. League football often raises as many questions as answers, and that certainly seems to be the case this year.

Survival but no finals or silverware. That’s the bottom line for Galway’s two flagship GAA teams after their National League campaigns wrapped up last weekend.

The six points Galway have already accumulated in Division One of this year’s National Football League would have been enough to guarantee safety in seven of the last nine seasons played under this format. The reason it’s not eight from ten is the Covid-impacted 2021 campaign, when the divisions were split into North and South sections.

Galway senior footballers are looking to get back on track against frontrunners Donegal this Sunday afternoon.