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"Commit. Focus. Believe. Achieve " - the recipe for Donegal’s All Ireland success, according to manager Jim McGuinness. In three days time, the Galway hurlers will have to do the same.

A strange feeling swept across Croke Park on Sunday afternoon as Joe Canning's 73rd minute point ensured a first All-Ireland SHC draw since 1959. The overriding feeling among the Galway squad afterwards was relief at getting a second bite at the cherry.

Coming out of Dublin last Sunday evening on the motorway was a surreal experience. The motorway at 7.30pm was like some kind of mobile car park for Galway supporters as they trekked West after seeing their team play their part in one of the best hurling finals in years.

After all the Olympic excitement in the north of the county in the last couple of weeks dies down, the focus this week turns to the Paralympics, as Ballinahown’s Mark Rohan prepares to go to London as a red-hot favourite.

Who will be the next to go? — This is the question on everyone’s mind as the sun sets on a week of difficult news for Kilkenny hurling.

It has been quite a year for Kilkenny’s hurlers.

Henry Shefflin has remained at home in Kilkenny this week, as his fellow All-Star hurlers departed on a trip to sunny California.

It was another bumper year at the All-Star awards for Kilkenny, as eight of our All-Ireland winning hurlers each managed to secure the highest individual accolade in inter-county hurling.

The immediate reaction from the Ballyhale Shamrocks’ backroom team was that they had got out of jail, after last Sunday’s county final.