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After six months of inactivity on the playing field, the Galway senior footballers, under the stewardship of Padraic Joyce, will begin their 2021 season in Killarney against Kerry on Saturday (3pm).

This year’s Connacht Football Championship will see Galway and Mayo avoiding each other until a potential final.

Dónál Ó’Fatharta will lead his young charges into an All-Ireland u20 final this Saturday afternoon against Dublin in what will be a curtain raiser to the senior final between Mayo and Dublin. (2.15pm throw-in)

Padraic Joyce’s first year in charge has been a strange one, entailing many twists and turns.

Galway bowed out of the Connacht and All-Ireland Championship of 2020 at the hands of their bitter rivals by 0-14 to 0-13 in Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

A brilliant seven point haul by captain Shane Walsh was not enough for Galway as they fell to an agonising one point defeat to Mayo in the Connacht Senior Football Final at Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

It is five years since Mayo competed for the Nestor Cup while playing on the day it was to be handed out - the 2015 Connacht Final win over Sligo was Mayo's fifth in succession as they made Connacht their play-thing for half a decade.

Galway will take on Mayo in this year’s Connacht Senior Football Championship final on Sunday in Pearse Stadium, Salthill (1.30pm) with a place in the All-Ireland semi-final at stake.

Padraic Joyce’s Galway will move straight into the Connacht final after Sligo were forced to withdraw from the championship campaign due to Covid-19.

Padraic Joyce’s Galway side suffered a disappointing defeat in a blustery Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon.