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At half time last Sunday few, if any, Galway football supporters would have held out too much hope of a win for Tommy Joyce’s minor team in the All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park.

The Galway minor footballers will head to Dublin this Saturday for theAll-Ireland semi-final on Sunday at Croke Park (1.30pm) knowing most people expect it to be a very tough day at football headquarters.

The inept display by the Galway minor footballers against Roscommon in the Connacht final was disappointing.

The Galway minor footballers failed in their bid last Sunday to win the county’s first Connacht minor title since 2007.

Roscommon 1-9 : : Galway 0-6

The Galway minor footballers, under the management of Tommie Joyce, will face Roscommon this Sunday (12 noon) in Hyde Park in the Connacht final.

The Galway minors had a facile 4-13 to 0-11 victory over a limited Leitrim outfit in Carrick-on-Shannon at the weekend.

The feeling entering Pearse Stadium for the round two football championship clash between St James and St Michael’s last weekend was that the Jimmies would be too strong for an injury-shorn St Michael’s outfit. And so it came to pass, with Seamus Burke’s charges winning easily enough on a score-line of 1-13 to 2-05.

Eight men were before Ballina District Court this week for trespassing charges after they were discovered drinking in an underground car park in Ballina.

This is a very attractive championship fixture and the city rivalry between the two sides should get a good crowd into the stadium on Saturday evening.