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Galway political anoraks will not have failed to notice how Fianna Fáil councillor Ollie Crowe has taken over from his brother, Cllr Michael J, as the ‘Face of the party in the city’, these last three years.

Johnny Cash famously sang about walking the line and this Saturday at Semple Stadium (7pm) the Galway senior hurlers will have to do just that if they are to see off Tipperary and keep their championship season alive.

A senator and a Galway County Council seat in Connemara; three council seats in the city; and a councillor for Oranmore Athenry, and all for Sinn Féin, while Labour is on the ropes, bruised, battered, and both eyes blackened.

Castlebar Mitchels’ manager Pat Holmes is facing into his second county final in three years on Sunday which will also be the club’s third crack at the title in four. The All Ireland u21 winning manager from 2006 was also part of the last team from the county town to taste success in this competition 20 years ago, alongside a number of players with long roots to Sunday’s final, including his opposite number Declan O’Reilly who was a member of the panel and Tom O’Reilly whose two sons will line up in opposite camps come Sunday.

Former All-Ireland winning manager with Portumna Johnny Kelly will take charge of the Galway u-21 hurlers next year after being appointed to the role this week.

Brian Cody has been reappointed as manager of the Kilkenny hurling team, following a meeting of Kilkenny County Board on Monday evening this week.

Travelling to Garrymore is a rare adventure for me. In fact it is one of the few grounds in this county that when I travel to it I invariably get lost along the way. Instead of taking the more direct (if you could ever use the word ‘direct’ in association with any passage to Garrymore) route via Claremorris, I thought I remembered the less travelled road up through Mayo Abbey being a little more interesting and so I veered right at the top of Balla village and not for the first time.

It will be a case of straight back up on the horse as Kilkenny renew their hurling rivalry with Tipperary early in the new year with a February league clash.

The Kilkenny senior hurlers will play Galway in this Sunday’s SHC Leinster final. The Cats have had an easy enough run of it and will be fresh ahead of the showdown which in manager Brian Cody’s eyes is not necessarily a good thing, “We have had more of a relaxed championship which isn’t always a good thing, our game against Dublin didn’t offer the challenge we had anticipated and it is important to be tested leading up to big games.”

This Sunday at Parnell Park in Dublin ( 2.30pm) Portumna hurlers will face Dunloy (Antrim) in the All-Ireland semi-final.