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•The Galway Ladies are up and running this year in preparation for the forthcoming National League with hopes of promotion to division one. The ladies resumed training under manager Barry Downey after the Christmas break in preparation for the first game away to Kildare early next month. The Galway Ladies Football AGM takes place on Tuesday January 28 at 8pm. Venue to be confirmed.

Corofin received some measure of consolation after their Connacht senior club championship defeat to Castlebar Mitchels when they collected the county u-21 A title after defeating old rivals Salthill/Knocknacarra by 3-11 to 1-11, at Pearse Stadium at the weekend.

If fortune favours Galway next Sunday then the coveted Liam McCarthy cup will be sailing down the N17, a road immortalised by the Saw Doctors. Their manager, Ollie Jennings, has been the chief navigator in the success of this bodacious music group. His speciality is band management, but he is also a proud sports enthusiast. It wasn’t until he relocated to Ballinasloe that he became enthralled with hurling through a friendship he forged with the legendary centre-back, Sean Silke.

There should be some top-class football on show this Sunday afternoon at Pearse Stadium (4pm) when the two best u-21 sides in the county face off in the county A final.

St Jarlath’s College take on Edenderry (Offaly) in Pearse Park in Longford this Saturday at 2pm in the All-Ireland Senior A Schools’ Championship semi-final.

St Jarlath’s College, Tuam, take on Summerhill in the 2012 senior A Connacht football final this Saturday at Ballyhaunis (3pm).

Major changes in the local hurling championship are being advocated by the Galway hurling review group whose stated objective is to “improve the standard of club and inter-county hurling in Galway”.

There are very few football and hurling fans who do not agree that colleges sport is one of the purest forms of both codes. That conviction was reinforced on Saturday afternoon in Croke Park when St Jarlath’s College fell narrowly short in their attempt to win what would have been the college’s 13th Hogan Cup title.

St Jarlath’s College, Tuam go in search of their 13th Hogan Cup title on Saturday in Croke Park (1.45pm).

Three goals in a 10-minute blitzkrieg during the first half helped St Jarlath’s College secure their 47th Connacht title over a slightly unlucky Summerhill side.