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The safety nets no longer exist in the Galway Senior Championship from this point on, with every team that takes to the field fully aware that their season rests on the outcome of this game.

Though there have been a fair few one-sided affairs up to this juncture, of the sixteen teams in the Galway Senior Hurling Championship, only one team, Oranmore/Maree, has nothing riding on this weekend.

Below is a group-by-group preview of the Senior A and B hurling competitions, and a few predictions on each group.

The Greenhills Hotel on the Ennis Road was my destination of choice and the place was packed full of Tipperary and Galway supporters. You certainly would not have thought you were just 400 metres from the clubhouse of Na Piarsaigh – All-Ireland winners in 2016 - when the roof nearly came off the place after 14-man Dublin produced a monumental shock to unceremoniously dump the Treaty out.

Successive wins over Offaly, Wexford, Antrim, and Dublin have put Galway exactly where they would have wanted to be at the start of the campaign, with a guaranteed place in an All-Ireland quarter final and a chance to annex the Bob O’Keeffe Cup back to the west for only the fourth time.

Micheál Donoghue’s return as Galway senior hurling manager can already be graded a solid B grade on a report card, regardless of what happens from this point forward. Given where the team stood last year to where they are now, Donoghue Part Deux has already been a clear success.

There are plenty of talking points to digest ahead of the Galway senior hurlers' eagerly anticipated clash with Dublin this Sunday in Parnell Park (throw-in 2pm), but the fact that it is a Leinster championship semi-final in all but name will make this contest compelling viewing.

With their Leinster Championship destiny very much in their own hands after a workmanlike victory over Wexford last weekend, the Galway senior hurlers welcome Antrim to Pearse Stadium this Saturday afternoon (throw-in: 1.30pm) with a chance to cement their place in the top three.

The Galway senior hurlers head south-east this Saturday, May 4, to take on Wexford at 4pm during a weekend of action in which the race for three qualifying places in the Leinster championship becomes more of a riddle.

Galway hurling fans got an unexpected boost before a ball had even been thrown in last weekend. It was announced that their final National League group game against Limerick will now take place this coming Saturday afternoon in Pearse Stadium (throw-in is at 1.15pm). The footballers will also play in the Salthill grounds on the same day (throw-in is at 3.15pm).