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SSE Airtricity Moycullen resume their Basketball Ireland National League campaign this weekend and 'every game left is like a cup final'according to stalwart Nollaig Cunningham.

Connacht's run of "cup finals" in their quest for Champions Cup qualification continues with the second successive Guinness Pro 12 fixture in Wales on Sunday.

Despite leading by a brace of goals on two occasions – including being ahead by 3-1 with less than five minutes of normal time remaining – the senior soccer side from Our Lady’s Secondary School, Belmullet, suffered the heartache of losing last Wednesday afternoon’s epic John Murphy Cup final in extra-time to St Peter’s Community School, Passage West, at the resplendent Mullingar Athletic AFC complex.

The SSE Airtricity Moycullen men’s basketball team extended its lead in the men’s division one league on Saturday with a 56-46 win over Fr Mathews in Colaiste Iognaid.

Galway and Connacht champions Corofin will take the M6 motorway on Saturday morning to Tullamore to take on the Leinster and All-Ireland champions St Vincent’s in the eagerly anticipated All-Ireland football semi-final in O’Connor Park (2pm).

A campaign continues to transform a former ferry, which plied the route between Galway and the Aran Islands, into a major tourist attraction. However if a financial plan is not established within a number of weeks there is a risk that the Naomh Eanna will have to be consigned to the scrapyard and Galway will lose out on an attraction which could, in time, be worth millions to the local economy.

When I woke last Sunday morning at 6.30am to find an inch of frozen snow covering the entire landscape around Charlestown I immediately thought there was no way I could travel to Killarney in these conditions, but I had to as I had the radio equipment in the boot of my car and without it no live broadcast of the much anticipated game could take place.

Galway WFC’s top-scorer last season, Sinead Taylor, returned to Eamonn Deacy Park in the green of Peamount United on Sunday and played a major part in her side’s 3-1 victory.

Corinthians came out on the wrong side of a tight game against fellow strugglers Shannon in Coonagh Park on Saturday.

Galwegians remain in pole position in division 1b after a 12-6 vicotry over Connach rivals Buccaneers on Friday night at Crowley Park.