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The Galway senior football championship kicked off last weekend with some exciting games.

As of early January and right through summer, I was very lucky to receive the opportunity to play for both U16 county gaelic football and camogie teams for Galway. I was hoping to make an appearance on at least one of the teams. I fortunately started on both. This was a surreal experience for me as I got to wear both football and camogie jerseys for my county.

Anyone that was of the opinion that Knockmore were on the slide and that the reigning champions weren't capable of holding onto their crown after losing out to Belmullet in round two, had their concerns emphatically answered after Ray Dempsey's team did a demolition job on Charlestown Sarsfields in round three in Breaffy winning, by 3-15 to 2-10.

Over a month has passed since it was confirmed that the winning €6,489,165 Lotto jackpot ticket was purchased at Applegreen service station in the Arcadia Retail Park in Athlone, but news emerged this week that the successful holder has made formal contact with the National Lottery.

The wait for a return to the showpiece fixture of Westmeath club football continues for Athlone following a narrow defeat to Tyrrellspass in the semi-final of this year’s prized competition in TEG Cusack Park, Mullingar, on Sunday afternoon.

Current All-Ireland, Connacht and Galway champions Corofin are boiling hot favourites to win their sixth county senior football title in a row this Sunday when they take on Mountbellew/Moylough in the county final at Pearse Stadium (3pm).

The county senior ladies' football final between Kilkerrin-Clonberne and Corofin outfit takes place in Moyullen on Saturday (3pm).

Galway and Connacht club champions Corofin qualified for the All-Ireland club semi-final when they easily defeated Fulham Irish (London) by 3-8 to 1-04 in Ruislip at the weekend. They will now meet Moorfield (Kildare) on February 17.

A supremely confident and talented Kilkerrin/Clonberne side made it five county titles in a row in the Ladies Senior football Championship last weekend against a young and improving Corofin team when they won by 1-14 to 2-9.