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When GAA delegates voted at a Special Congress in October 2008 to allow Galway and Antrim to compete in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, they surely never envisaged it would take 15 years before the two counties would play a match against each other in the competition.

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Another road trip awaits the Galway senior hurlers this weekend when they travel to Mullingar to take on Westmeath on Saturday evening with an unbeaten record still intact after last weekend’s contest with Kilkenny, which finished 1-24 to 0-27.

Young substitute Declan McLoughlin landed a splendid late point, deep into stoppage time, to ensure the Leinster SHC spoils were divided.

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.

The threat of relegation from division one has been removed from Galway’s final game of the Allianz Hurling League away to Westmeath this weekend after a solid performance led to a deserved 1-24 to 0-22 win over Clare in Cusack Park on Sunday.The return of Eanna Murphy, Daithí Burke, Ronan Glennon, Evan Niland, Brian Concannon, and Conor Whelan to the starting 15 suggested this was Galway’s strongest available line-up, but it took some time for them to come to terms with the challenge a lively Clare side posed.

Fresh from claiming their fourth Walsh Cup title and an opening round league win over Wexford last weekend, the Galway seniors hurlers next assignment is the visit of Cork to Pearse Stadium this Sunday afternoon (2pm).

Fresh from claiming their fourth Walsh Cup title and an opening round league win over Wexford last weekend, the Galway senior hurlers' next assignment is against Cork in Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon (2pm).

Galway romped to a comfortable 3-28 to 0-20 Walsh Cup victory over Westmeath as the second year of Henry Shefflin’s reign as Galway senior hurling manager got underway in Duggan Park, Ballinasloe on Sunday.

St Thomas’ and Loughrea will contest the Galway senior hurling final after both clubs recorded convincing wins over Sarsfields and Clarinbridge respectively in the semi-final double header at a windswept Pearse Stadium on Sunday.