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The new Galway minor football manager for the 2011 season is to be announced tonight.

The St James’s footballers and their loyal supporters of Mervue and Renmore will have to attend Mass early this weekend as they need to be on the N17 early on Sunday for their Connacht intermediate final meeting with Strokestown at 12.30pm in Tuam Stadium.

Killererin will take on the Mayo senior champions Ballintubber on Sunday at 2.30pm in the Connacht semi-final at Tuam Stadium.

The Claregalway Hotel dream team nominations were announced this week and the selected XV in senior and intermediate will be presented with their awards at a gala function in late November.

Last Sunday Frank Kinneen became the first referee in Galway football in 37 years (since Tom Boyle, Ballinasloe, in 1972 and 1973) to referee the county senior final in consecutive years.

Anyone watching the Killererin team bus pull up to the back gates of Pearse Stadium behind their Garda escort a good hour before the senior throw-in last Sunday afternoon knew they meant business. They were there to collect.

Every club has truly great servants to the cause. Players who are able to keep the flame of enthusiasm and desire to represent their place and their club glowing fiercely after it has extinguished in many others. Tommie Wilson is such a man.

History will be made next Sunday in Pearse stadium at 4pm when Killererin and Corofin come face to face in a county senior final for the first time.

The top two clubs in Galway minor football over the past five years, St James and Corofin – they have won the last five A titles between them – clashed in Pearse Stadium on Sunday in this year’s county final. On this occasion it was Ollie Burke’s Corofin outfit that collected the booty.

We were not at all surprised last Saturday evening when it took extra-time to separate these two near neighbours in a keenly-fought and exciting county semi-final.