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This Sunday in Croke Park (3.30pm) Galway will try might and main to advance to their first all-Ireland senior hurling final in seven years.

After a few years during which we have collectively skulked around Europe, with our heads facing the ground for fear of looking up and seeing that people are staring and laughing at us, the country gets a chance from this weekend to start to believe that we are back in our place in the international community again.

St Canice’s Cathedral holds its annual carol service this Sunday at 5pm.

Heineken Ireland has won the pouring rights to the Volvo Ocean Race grand finale in Galway next year. The city will host an eight-day celebration to mark the race finale from June 30 to July 8 2012.

Clarinbridge qualified for a second consecutive county final last Saturday when they saw off Craughwell comfortably enough in Duggan Park on a score-line of 0-18 to 0-13.

The re-fixture for last Sunday’s abandoned county hurling semi-final between Clarinbridge and Craughwell takes place this Saturday in Duggan Park at 2.30pm.

The finalists for the 2011 county senior hurling final are expected to be known by 5pm this Sunday afternoon, barring any draws.

Clarinbridge 2-18

The All Ireland club hurling title has come west of the Shannon to Galway on 10 occasions since 1971. Tomorrow (St Patrick’s Day) Clarenbridge are aiming to make that 11.

Clarinbridge hurling manager Michéal Donoghue is an impressive character.