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To celebrate the beginning of the much anticipated GAA All-Ireland Championship, Fagan’s Sports Bar will be hosting a jersey party for all dedicated fans and followers of sport tomorrow, Friday June 17, from 8pm.

The Galway footballers continued their preparations for the Connacht semi-final on Sunday week against Mayo in McHale Park with a narrow win over the All-Ireland champions Cork in Ennis at the weekend.

Now that Alan Mulholland’s under-21 team have kickstarted the Galway GAA season in such spectacular fashion, we thought to show you some champions of yesteryear, the county minor team who won the All Ireland in 1970.

Norman Whiteside, a member of the great Northern Ireland team that beat Spain at the 1982 World Cup and progressed to the knock-out stages, is coming to Galway.

Tommy Larkins in Group A and Tynagh-Abbey Duniry in Group B secured important victories in the weekend’s hurling championship action.

Fresh from their confidence boosting win over Carlow in the preliminary round, Westmeath hurlers face a mammoth task as they welcome Galway to Cusack Park on Saturday evening. With Galway touted by many as strong all-Ireland contenders, a home win would be a shock of seismic proportions.

The Galway senior hurlers start their third senior Leinster championship campaign on Saturday when they take on Westmeath at 7pm in Cusack Park, Mullingar.

These sides met four weeks ago in the league over in Caltra and Cortoon won by two points, 1-10 to 1-8. Expect another tight game on Sunday.

Killanin look like a senior team in trouble. They are pointless after three games in the league and look like hot candidates to be demoted from 1B. While they scored five goals against Carraroe in their first round defeat, they conceded 1-17.

The 10 first round losers in the county football championship are back in action this weekend with the winners of these fixtures joining NUIG in round three. All will still have ambitions of contesting for the Frank Fox Cup in 2011.