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Football focus turns to the first round of the Galway Senior Football Championship which throws in this weekend.

It was a heroic effort, but in the end Padraic Joyce’s Galway team succumbed to a late Kerry surge in the 2022 All-Ireland Football Championship final.

Right on cue, the drizzle started to fall as the final few moments of the Galway adventure came to a heartbreaking conclusion in Croke Park.

For Galway to win on Sunday and bring Sam Maguire home, there are a few key areas that need to be nailed.

Championship football is about finding a way. It is a motto that has served Galway footballers well throughout the past three months.

Galway eventually came out on top of Armagh in one of the most thrilling games Croke Park has seen for years, 2-21 to 3-18 after extra-time with the Tribesmen winning 4-1 on penalties. The teams could not be separated in normal time or extra time and almost three hours after the ball was first thrown in Matthew Tierney’s penalty struck the net and jubilant celebrations could finally begin in the Galway camp.

Where the hell do you start with this? An afternoon that had everything that you want to and don’t want to see on a football field - the great and the good, the old and the new and something completely different to round it off.

In a chaotic match Galway's character and class was evident which pleased manager Pádraic Joyce.

Galway face near neighbours Roscommon in the much-anticpated Connacht football final on Sunday in Pearse Stadium (1.45pm).

Galway footballers face Leitrim in the Connacht Championship semi-final in Pearse Stadium on Sunday (3.30pm) - the winners will be rewarded with a meeting with provincial favourites Roscommon.