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Connacht's season concluded in South Africa with a loss to defending URC champions DHL Stormers, but having achieved one major ambition - to qualify for Champions Cup rugby next season.

The Galway senior hurlers recorded an extremely facile win over a depleted Westmeath side on Saturday in Mullingar, with a first-half Conor Whelan hat-trick among the highlights of a 6-33 to 0-17 victory.

Galway are aiming to win their second Nestor Cup in a row when they face Sligo on Sunday in Castlebar's McHale Park on Sunday (1.45pm).

By Sarah Gaughran

After a solid league campaign for the county footballers, attention now turns to club action which continues this weekend.

BUCCANEERS 15 SLIGO 8

Injuries are an unfortunate, and often inevitable part of sport, but the news that David Burke has been ruled out for the rest of the Galway senior hurler’s season due to a cruciate ligament injury picked up in training last week placed a dark cloud over the team’s final league game away to Westmeath.

Two long-established GAA clubs in the city areas are at loggerheads over plans by one to construct a state of the art playing facilities to within a short distance of the other.

The Galway Senior camogie team recorded back-to-back victories in the Very Camogie League's division 1A after they overcame a tough test against Clare in front of a great crowd in Kilbeacanty on Saturday, winning by 1-14 to 0-13.

Digital Business Ireland, the country’s leading representative body for the digital commerce sector, and permanent tsb, Ireland’s leading provider of SME and retail banking announced the winners and runners-up of the annual National Digital Awards at a Luncheon ceremony last week.