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Local senior camogie player Jacqui Frisby has made the final 10 in the inaugural Gala Performance Award introduced this year to recognise the most outstanding individual performance during the course of the Gala All-Ireland Senior Championship, and Jacqui demonstrated her remarkable talent in the Tipperary V Kilkenny game in Semple Stadium on June 27. This led to the Kilkenny senior player making the shortlist of nominees for best performance of the season.

After a disappointing 2009 season and the resignation of Tomas O’Flatharta, much surprise has been expressed at the appointment of Brendan Hackett as the new manager of the Westmeath senior football team.

After a disappointing 2009 season and the resignation of Tomas O’Flatharta, much surprise has been expressed at the appointment of Brendan Hackett as the new manager of the Westmeath senior football team.

Mountbellew/Moylough will have learnt much from their first county final in more than 20 years. They will believe also they are capable of producing a much more sustained and polished performance than the one they produced two weeks ago.

Corofin reached another Connacht senior football final with an impressive and professional victory over Glencar/Manorhamilton last Sunday in Tuam Stadium on a score-line of 2-13 to 0-9.

Unsurprisingly the last chapter in this year’s controversial Galway Senior Hurling Championship promises to be lively.

It is ironic that when the GAA headlines in the national newspapers last Sunday and Monday were all to do with the Gaelic Players Association coming under the umbrella of the larger GAA body, and how that new co-existence will be for the betterment of the county player, that the successful club players still have to get out and put on the best displays they can deliver in the height of winter.

Tom Parsons (Charlestown) v Greg Higgins (Corofin)