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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.

If this weekend’s Galway Senior Football Championship quarter-finals deliver half the drama of the preliminary round a fortnight ago, then supporters are in for another cracking instalment.

It is typically Galway's attacking exploits that make the headlines. Yet, it is the Tribeswomen's backline that lays the foundation with their gritty, assured, and fearless approach. Emma Helebert has been a stalwart in the Galway defence for years now. She is on the hunt for her third All-Ireland crown on Sunday.

Agony and ecstasy. That well-worn sporting cliché. But sometimes, the classics are all we have to do justice to the emotions on either side of the divide. Oldies are goldies, after all.

An intriguing set of knockout fixtures lies in store for hurling supporters across the county as the Galway senior and intermediate championships enter the quarter-final stage, with a repeat of last year’s senior final between St. Thomas’ and Turloughmore sure to draw a massive crowd to Kenny Park on Sunday.

The knockout stages of the Galway senior and intermediate hurling championship gets underway this weekend, with fifteen games of consequence to be played across six venues which will leave sixteen teams with no further fixtures to look forward to this year and one demoted to a lower grade.

Group 1:

Brooks Senior Hurling Championship Group 1

Two of the leading challengers in the race for the 2023 Galway senior hurling championship suffered unexpected defeats last weekend as Castlegar and Killimordaly recorded wins over Sarsfields and Clarinbridge respectively.

The second round of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship promises to be an action-packed affair this weekend as the eight defeated clubs from round one look to turn their fortunes around, and Loughrea’s clash with Cappataggle on Saturday in Group 3 is arguably the pick of the fixtures.