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Galway advanced to the 2012 Leinster final with ease on Sunday, overcoming Offaly in Portlaoise by 14 points, 5-23 to 3-15.

On Sunday afternoon in O’Moore Park (2pm), the Galway hurlers face Offaly in the 2012 Leinster semi-final.

It may seem churlish to nit-pick when a team wins a championship game by 10 points, but the Galway management team and the Galway players will know they will have to be much more imposing and tight at the back when they face Offaly on June 17 in Portlaoise in the Leinster semi-final (2pm throw-in).

Leinster SHC quarter-final

The Galway hurlers start their 2012 championship this Sunday when they take on Westmeath in Cusack Park Mullingar (3.30pm).

Joe Canning scored 1-8 as a young Galway team defeated Limerick in a lively challenge in Athenry on Saturday evening. The home side won by 2-20 to 1-18.

It was a good afternoon’s work for the Galway hurlers in O’Moore Park in Portlaoise on Saturday as they saw off Dublin by 4-21 to 0-19 in the division 1A relegation replay.

The Galway senior hurlers must go back to the well this Saturday and produce a big performance when they face Dublin at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise, (4pm) in their relegation play-off.

The Galway hurlers head to Tullamore this Sunday to take on Dublin (2.30pm) knowing that it is one of the most important games they will play this season.

The Galway hurling dressing room must have been a quiet and sombre place last Sunday afternoon in Nowlan Park after Anthony Cunningham’s young team took a severe pounding by Kilkenny.