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There was plenty to take from a fantastically fought Connacht Derby last Friday night. Unfortunately, the most tangible impact of a fantastic game of football was that the wait for European football in Galway will now go on for at least 35 years.

The occasion and the atmosphere that surrounded the FAI Cup semi-final on Saturday suggested Galway United were back in the big time. The performance was creditable, but the outcome was an eerie echo of the past.

When kick-off finally comes on Saturday afternoon, Galway United could be as little as 90 minutes away from the Aviva Stadium.

Having already booked their place in the Walsh Cup final thanks to last weekend’s nine-point win over Dublin, the Galway senior hurlers will travel to the Darver Centre of Excellence in County Louth this coming Saturday afternoon to take on Antrim.

As the old cliché goes, games are for winning and Mayo did that, just about.

Connacht will be using Monday's final PRO14 fixture against the Scarlets in Wales (8pm) as a benchmark for their upcoming European challenge against Leicester.

There will be a new team lifting the Frank Fox Cup this weekend for the first time in eight years as Moycullen and Mountbellew-Moylough contest the senior football final in Pearse Stadium on Sunday (4pm).

The four quarter-finals of this season's Claregalway Hotel Galway Senior Football Championship will take place behind closed doors this weekend in Pearse Stadium.

There are four Round 3 Super Eight games on this weekend but only one has any real relevance, only one has everything at stake. Kerry will beat Meath by as much as they want, Tyrone and Dublin are already through to the semi finals and aren't bothered while Cork take on Roscommon in a dead rubber with neither team having anything to play for.

Our hope was that Mayo would have something to play for in our final group game against Donegal in Castlebar and that the Super 8 experience wouldn’t turn into a nightmare.