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The Galway football management team of Alan Mulholland, Paul Clancy and Declan Meehan has announced its championship panel for the coming few months.

On behalf of the club and all the members, we wish to express our deepest condolences on the sudden passing of Michael Hanley, a committed member and supporter of the Salthill-Knocknacarra GAA Club for many years, and also to his wife Mary whom all our hearts go out to, and his children, Earnán, Ciara, Finian, Aonghus and Caoimhe.

The two top football teams in the county in 2013 are Salthill and Corofin, and they will face each other in the county final on October 13 after their respective victories last weekend.

It was never going to be easy, if possible at all, for any sporting fixture last Sunday evening to compete with the scintillating excitement and drama of the Dublin and Cork All-Ireland hurling semi-final at Croke Park.

A repeat of last year's county senior football final between Salthill-Knocknacarra and Tuam Stars, which the city side won by 0-12 to 0-7, is the stand-out tie in this weekend's senior football championship games.

After their surprise defeat to Carna-Caiseal in the first round of the championship three weeks ago, some questioned Salthill’s ability to find the necessary hunger to challenge for another run at a county title this season.

Salthill-Knocknacarra v Micheal Breathnach

Gaelic football can be a very ugly field game at times, and the first half of the Galway and Wexford game last Sunday in Pearse Stadium was a case in point.

Not for the first time in the past year the Sligo footballers had too much for Galway when a game was in the balance and was there to be won.

Connacht club semi-final (Salthill Sunday 2.30pm)