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Hurling enthusiasts have two mouth-watering semi-finals in the Brooks Group Galway Senior Championship to look forward to this Sunday afternoon in Pearse Stadium.

With a mammoth 67 games already played in this year’s Brooks Group Galway Senior Hurling Championship, two double headers this weekend will provide the final four teams.

The final eight teams remaining in the Brooks Group Galway Senior Hurling Championship are now known, with Portumna the only club from outside the boundaries of Senior A to have made it to the business end of proceedings.

Supporters of the Galway senior hurlers will be hitting the road to Thurles early on Saturday morning to see the Tribesmen take on Cork in the first of this weekend’s All-Ireland quarter-finals (1.45pm).

Galway and Portumna hurling legend Joe Canning presented five sets of medals to club juvenile stars in the Sheraton Hotel last Saturday. The club captured titles at Under 13, 15 and 17 in 2020 and at Under 13 and 17 in 2021. There was a large attendance of players, parents, supporters and club officials at the function which was a most enjoyable night.

Hope was in the Ballinasloe air on Sunday afternoon. Henry Shefflin’s first match in charge of Galway brought a dollop of excitement and even though the GAA year is only commencing a feel good factor exists in the west.

When Henry Shefflin was driving his native county to an All-Ireland title in 2012 at Galway’s expense, turning the tide of the drawn game almost singlehandedly, it would have taken a brave prophet to predict the Ballyhale Shamrocks man would be the Tribesmen’s commander-in-chief on the sideline within a decade.

As we bid a glad farewell to another year of The New Way of Living and welcome in the latest instalment, we look back on some key moments in the year 2021 - a year of highs and lows, defeats and victories, learnings, resilience and hope.

Padraig Pearses clubman and former hurling committee chairman Paul Bellew has been elected Galway GAA‘s next chairperson, taking over from Pat Kearney whose five year term came to an end.

The quarter-final stage of the Brooks Group Galway senior hurling championship has arrived with St Thomas’ clear favourites to claim their fifth title in six years after last year’s finalists Turloughmore were dramatically knocked out by Kilnadeema-Leitrim.