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Moyne Villa Football Club won the Circular Sports Champion category at the Full Circle Awards on September 17.

The race for the Frank Fox Cup reaches the quarter-final stage this weekend with four intriguing ties, three of which are repeats of group meetings from only 12 months ago.

Galway City is set to benefit from a welcome tourism boost this week as thousands of American college football fans travel to Ireland for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin.

The inaugural FAI National League season gets underway this Saturday. For Mervue United and Salthill Devon it signifies the beginning of an exciting new era.

The final round of group games in the Galway Senior Football Championship arrives with plenty still to be decided across all four groups.

Galway United Women have become accustomed to big games in their successful seasons at the top of domestic football. Saturday’s FAI cup semi-final away to Athlone Town feels as big as any.

There are some teams whose greatest achievement is not measured by the trophies they lifted, but by the paths they cleared for those who came after them. The Galway senior ladies' football team of 1975 belongs firmly in that category. They may not have returned home with the Brendan Martin Cup, but they carried something every bit as valuable – hope, pride and the belief that Galway women deserved their place on the biggest stage of Gaelic football.

There is some respite from the pressure cooker of league action tomorrow night for Galway United.

Every child who has ever picked up a hurl or football has played out the same fantasy. A late free. One last chance. A strike to win an All-Ireland final before climbing the Hogan Stand steps to the acclaim of thousands and lifting the trophy as team captain. Last August, Carrie Dolan lived that dream.