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Mullingar Shamrocks and reigning champions Garrycastle are this week preparing for an intriguing county final clash on October 3. Shamrocks proved too strong for The Downs in the first of the two semi-finals played in Cusack Park last Sunday. Garrycastle’s ability to score goals proved decisive in the second game as they overcame Killucan on a scoreline of 3-12 to 1-13 in a proverbial game of two halves.

The reigning county champions Garrycastle suffered their first defeat of this year’s campaign against an impressive Mullingar Shamrocks. Anthony Cunningham’s men were without a number of regulars including the two Dolans and James Duignan and struggled against a very mobile and well organised Shamrocks outfit. The Mullingar men were still without Kieran Gavin but were able to call on the services of Anthony Clinton in midfield. Kieran Gavin will be back for their semi-final in a month’s time and they must stand a great chance of making the county final.

With the final round of group games in this year’s Shay Murtagh SFC down for decision this weekend there are a host of intriguing contests on the cards. Come Sunday evening the line-up for this year’s knock-out stages will be sorted out.

Leinster SFC

Pat Flanagan may have dominated the headlines last week after being appointed as interim Westmeath manager, but this week it’s a different Flanagan that will be on the minds of the football fraternity of Westmeath as the race for this year’s Flanagan Cup gets under way in earnest. Maryland and Kinnegad kicked off this year’s action in Moate last Sunday but the remaining five games are down for decision this weekend. The intermediate championship also kicks off this weekend.

Donegal 1-13

Westmeath face a difficult challenge this weekend as they travel north to take on reigning league champions Derry in Ballinascreen at 2.30pm on Sunday. Having lost the opening round against Galway, an away win would be a welcome tonic to O’Flatharta’s men. Derry had two points to spare over Mayo in their first round clash and will not want to go down in their first home game of the season.

Galway 2-10

Galway 2-10

Westmeath county footballer Kieran Gavin was one of two recipients of a Cadbury Football Scholarship in Dublin College University last week.