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Galway’s bid to claim a fifth Walsh Cup title came up short last Sunday in Carlow's Netwatch Cullen Park where Wexford deservedly won the competition for the first time since 2020 on a 1-21 to 0-16 score-line.

The return of St Thomas’ David Burke to the field of play was one of the main talking points from Sunday’s senior hurling championship semi-finals as the reigning title-holders booked their place in the final after a 1-20 to 1-17 victory over Sarsfields.

The Galway senior hurlers have still never beaten Dublin in Croke Park in the Leinster senior hurling championship, but they did stage a stirring comeback last Sunday in clawing back a twelve point deficit to salvage a 1-15 to 2-21 draw and book a place in the provincial final against Kilkenny.

Dublin 2-22 Galway 1-25

Waterford 1-30 Galway 3-20

A surge at the end of the first half and right at the start of the second saw Galway eventually fall to an inevitable eight-point reverse in front of 14,000 fans on Sunday afternoon.

Carlow was the big talking point on the hurling scene at the weekend, forcing a draw with last year's All Ireland finalists Galway in National Hurling League action.

Galway can be expected to bag a second National Hurling League win when they head to Netwatch Cullen Park to take on Carlow on Sunday (2pm).

Watching the third episode of the documentary The Game on RTÉ One it was lovely to look back at Joe Connolly's rousing speech in 1980 after that team won the All-Ireland final and broke into the top tier of hurling again.

The Galway U21 hurlers fell short in the last five minutes against Limerick in Semple Stadium in last weekend's All-Ireland U21 semi-final in front of a crowd of 6,524 - when they lost out on a score-line of 2-23 to 2-19.