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Young substitute Declan McLoughlin landed a splendid late point, deep into stoppage time, to ensure the Leinster SHC spoils were divided.

Injuries are an unfortunate, and often inevitable part of sport, but the news that David Burke has been ruled out for the rest of the Galway senior hurler’s season due to a cruciate ligament injury picked up in training last week placed a dark cloud over the team’s final league game away to Westmeath.

The threat of relegation from division one has been removed from Galway’s final game of the Allianz Hurling League away to Westmeath this weekend after a solid performance led to a deserved 1-24 to 0-22 win over Clare in Cusack Park on Sunday.The return of Eanna Murphy, Daithí Burke, Ronan Glennon, Evan Niland, Brian Concannon, and Conor Whelan to the starting 15 suggested this was Galway’s strongest available line-up, but it took some time for them to come to terms with the challenge a lively Clare side posed.

The Galway senior hurlers begin their Allianz National League Division 1A campaign this Saturday with a trip to the south east to take on Wexford in a game that will also provide the chance to collect silverware as it doubles up as the Walsh Cup final. (throw-in 5pm)

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.

Galway hurling kingpins St Thomas’ head for Croke Park this weekend with their sights firmly focused on securing a third appearance in the AIB All-Ireland senior club championship final in the New Year.

St Thomas’ astonishing run of county senior hurling title wins now stretches to five in a row after last Sunday’s gripping replay against Loughrea.

For the first time since their remarkable run of unbeaten county final appearances began in 2012, St Thomas left Pearse Stadium on Sunday without the Tom Callinan Cup in their possession.

Much water has passed under the bridge since St Thomas’ and Loughrea last met in an infamous county senior hurling final in 2012, but the near neighbours will lock horns once again on Sunday in Pearse Stadium (1.30pm) as the county champions look to keep a firm grip on the Tom Callinan cup for the fifth year running.

St Thomas’ and Loughrea will contest the Galway senior hurling final after both clubs recorded convincing wins over Sarsfields and Clarinbridge respectively in the semi-final double header at a windswept Pearse Stadium on Sunday.