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The new All-Ireland League season kicks off on Saturday, October 2 with difficult challenges for Connacht’s four representives.

Galway Corinthians RFC is launching a supporters’ club programme to coincide with the start of the new AIL season on Saturday next.

Connacht kick off their junior interprovincial campaign on Saturday with high expectations when they face Ulster in Virginia at 2.30pm.

Corinthians celebrated another Connacht Junior Cup win on Sunday, overcoming Sligo in a highly competitive encounter at the Galway Sportsground.

This year’s AIB League comes to a satisfactory conclusion for Galway clubs this weekend, but for junior club Monivea the promotion chase is still very much up for grabs.

• Corinthians RFC is holding a rugby information evening tonight (Thursday) at 8.30pm in Busker Brownes. The club will launch its fixture list for the season season and its future plans for the development of rugby within the club.

Sligo native Niall O’Hara has been named club captain of Buccaneers as they return to division one rugby this season.

Both Ballina and Westport got their Connacht Junior league campaigns off to winning starts last Sunday, while Castlebar had to make do with a share of the spoils at home.

What a difference a few days make. In these pages last week this writer said that Castlebar needed to see some improvement against Monivea last weekend or it could be a long hard winter in Cloondeash. And that’s exactly what happened as Rory Casey’s side saw off Monivea by four points to hopefully give them a springboard for the winter.