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Galway footballers will be hoping weather does not affect Saturday's round four National League fixture with Cork, having suffered an eleventh hour postponement of last weekend's fixture against Offaly in Pearse Stadium due to Storm Eunice.

The 2021 Galway Senior Football Championship has been whittled down to four teams following the conclusion of the four quarter-finals. And now there are the usual suspects at this business end of the championship.

The Galway Senior Football Championship is down to the last eight teams and the draw, which was made 10 days ago, has produced a few tasty clashes to whet the appetite of football supporters around the county.

Mayo take on Leitrim on Sunday for the right to play in the 2021 Connacht senior football final.

Galway endured a nightmare start to their Allianz League campaign when they ran into a runaway Kerry train in Tralee this afternoon (Saturday) losing by nineteen points to a home team obviously still stung by their late capitulation to Cork last autumn.

Disenchanted by what unfolded before his eyes on Saturday evening as Dublin romped to their tenth successive Leinster senior football final victory, Athlone and former Westmeath footballer, John Connellan, penned an open letter on his social media channels, detailing his vast concerns for the future of gaelic football within the province.

Galway have only themselves to blame for their one-point defeat to rivals Mayo in Sunday’s Connacht Final, according to manager Padraig Joyce, who said that his team were heartbroken, but were just not clinical enough when it mattered.

It was a day for grit and determination in a city more known for the flair and flavour of the arts and when it came to the crunch Mayo had that bit more of battle hardness than their hosts on the shore of Galway Bay.

A brilliant seven point haul by captain Shane Walsh was not enough for Galway as they fell to an agonising one point defeat to Mayo in the Connacht Senior Football Final at Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Padraic Joyce’s Galway will move straight into the Connacht final after Sligo were forced to withdraw from the championship campaign due to Covid-19.