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Another road trip awaits the Galway senior hurlers this weekend when they travel to Mullingar to take on Westmeath on Saturday evening with an unbeaten record still intact after last weekend’s contest with Kilkenny, which finished 1-24 to 0-27.

Injuries are an unfortunate, and often inevitable part of sport, but the news that David Burke has been ruled out for the rest of the Galway senior hurler’s season due to a cruciate ligament injury picked up in training last week placed a dark cloud over the team’s final league game away to Westmeath.

The Galway senior hurlers bowed out of the All-Ireland championship on Sunday after suffering an agonising 0-27 to 1-21 defeat at the hands of reigning champions Limerick.

Galway looked poised to perhaps pull off their most unlikely win of the season when substitute Evan Niland dropped a spectacular long-range shot just over the crossbar to level Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final for only the fifth time with four minutes left.

The odds may well be stacked against them, having to play their third game in 16 days, but Galway are well equipped to take on Munster champions Limerick on Sunday (4pm).

Fourth-quarter goals by Conor Whelan and Cathal Mannion helped a resurgent Galway overturn an eight-point first half deficit to end Tipperary’s involvement in the National League in front of a crowd of 5,750 enthralled spectators on yet another horrible afternoon weather-wise for sport in the west.

An encouraging mix of resilience and application were the dominant features of the Galway hurlers' late surge against Cork, the 2-18 to 1-16 win setting up another knock-out fixture against Tipperary this Sunday (2pm) in Pearse Stadium to decide who will progress from Group A to the quarter-finals.

Galway senior hurlers require two positive results from their remaining home fixtures, starting on Sunday against Cork in Pearse Stadium (2pm).

Mayo knew before throw in that they still have plenty of work to do if they are going to stop Dublin’s drive for five All Ireland titles later on in the Summer, but if they were in any doubts they were given another warning of what they will have to do in a few months time to catch the Dubs. 

The 2018 Leinster hurling championship final on July 1 in Croke Park will see Galway face their old nemesis Kilkenny in what promises to be an intriguing final.