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Just one round into the Galway Senior Football Championship and the pressure is already mounting. For those beaten on the opening weekend, another defeat would leave qualification hopes hanging by a thread.

Behind bolted doors last week, there was a closely fought selection convention for Sinn Féin to chose its candidate for the Galway West by-election in May.

The plan was approved at the local party’s AGM last week, where 50 delegates from across Galway re-elected former city councillor, Mark Lohan, as its chairperson for the sixth year running.

Hot on their heels are familiar contenders like Salthill-Knocknacarra, Maigh Cuilinn, and Tuam Stars, each eager to disrupt the champions’ dominance.

Just three weeks after the disappointment of the men's senior All-Ireland final, the club championship starts back this weekend. Six weeks after the end of the league campaign, all 16 teams will get a chance to start afresh in the chase for the Frank Fox Cup. With four groups back in play for this year’s competition it is much simpler to see how teams can progress through to the latter stages.

Athlone Castle will host the opening of ‘A Tribute to Innocents’, a Memorial Quilts exhibition in collaboration with the South East Fermanagh Foundation on Tuesday, October 10, at 6pm.

A couple of tasty fixtures are on the schedule for the Galway Senior Football Championship which this weekend hosts the semi-finals, and both games are to be hosted in Pearse Stadium as a double header on Sunday afternoon.

The Galway Intermediate Football Championship final takes place on Saturday afternoon between Kilconly and Dunmore MacHales at 4pm in Tuam Stadium. The man taking charge of this fixture with so much at stake for both teams is Kieran Quinn.

The Galway senior football championship is hotting up as it enters the quarterfinal stage this weekend. And, in the first of many seasons, the race for Frank Fox is wide open, especially the manner in which the draw for the last eight fell. There are some mouthwatering ties this weekend and the pick of the bunch begins with the double header in Tuam Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

The race for Frank Fox is now hotting up after a twelve-week group stage.