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After a superb win away to Armagh last Saturday evening, Galway now know a win or draw this weekend against the reigning league champions Kerry will pit them against old rivals Mayo in the league final.

Galway may have dropped another point last weekend, but with division one league football being ultra competitive this year, a win against a resurgent Monaghan this coming Sunday would almost guarantee safety for 2024.

Galway secured a much-needed win over Tyrone last weekend and now hope to follow up with a win over Donegal in Letterkenny on Sunday afternoon (12.30pm).

Padraic Joyce’s Galway side is sitting dangerously low in the Allianz League division one table following a defeat to Davy Burke’s Roscommon 0-09 to 0-08.

We lost Phelim Murphy on Friday June 10.

It was a heroic effort, but in the end Padraic Joyce’s Galway team succumbed to a late Kerry surge in the 2022 All-Ireland Football Championship final.

Right on cue, the drizzle started to fall as the final few moments of the Galway adventure came to a heartbreaking conclusion in Croke Park.

Matthew Tierney might be too young to remember the last time that Galway claimed the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship back in 2001 - but he’s seen the tapes back plenty as he told the media in Pearse Stadium last week.

Championship football is about finding a way. It is a motto that has served Galway footballers well throughout the past three months.

Galway eventually came out on top of Armagh in one of the most thrilling games Croke Park has seen for years, 2-21 to 3-18 after extra-time with the Tribesmen winning 4-1 on penalties. The teams could not be separated in normal time or extra time and almost three hours after the ball was first thrown in Matthew Tierney’s penalty struck the net and jubilant celebrations could finally begin in the Galway camp.