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More than 5,000 people in Galway county have signed on to the Live Register since October 2007 according to new reports released last week by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

• 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.

The 20th year of All Ireland League rugby begins on Saturday with Galway clubs Galwegians, Corinthians, and Connemara fighting for honours in each of the three divisions.

It was not all bad news for Connacht rugby at the weekend with the u-19 club side overcoming Munster by 16 -10 on Saturday in Cork.

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

This year’s Chadwicks Cup final (Mayo League FA Cup) sees the meeting of two Uniteds who have seen their historical positions flipped this year. Straide and Foxford United, one of the blue ribbon names in Mayo soccer saw themselves relegated at the death of the 2007 season to the Premier League, while Snugboro United surrvived and launched an all out assault on the higher reaches of the Super League this season. This assault proved ultimately unsuccessful but Johan Collins’s first year in charge of the side can only be marked out as a success so far. And if he is able to guide his men to pick up the Chadwicks Cup the season will have been an unqualified success.

A new All Ireland League season begins on Saturday for Ireland’s 48 senior clubs, and there is much to play for at the top.

•Corinthians unbeaten 2nd XV take on the 2006 Junior League champions Westport in Carrowholly this Sunday. After an uninspiring victory away to Corrib last weekend, this is a mouth-watering challenge. In last year's corresponding fixture in Cloonacauneen, the game was won in the final play with a superb 50 metre finish by Ciaran Dolan.

Galway’s three senior rugby clubs head into this weekend’s AIB League boosted by a successful round last Saturday.

Corinthians produced a solid team effort against struggling Buccaneers to remain in the top quarter of the Connacht Junior League division 1A table with a 37 - 10 victory at Corinthian Park on Sunday.