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There are some names that become inseparable from a place, a time and a feeling. In Galway, the name Paul Clancy will forever be synonymous with bright days at Croke Park, heroic homecomings and the return of belief to a county that had waited too long to celebrate.

Galway travel to Croke Park for an All-Ireland quarter-final showdown with Dublin this Sunday.

Is it too early to be talking about a possible football and hurling double? Almost certainly. But where’s the fun in being sensible?

Galway senior footballers will look to book their passage into the All-Ireland quarter-finals when they face Leinster champions Westmeath at Pearse Stadium this Sunday.

I’m not going to pretend I foresaw Galway’s Leinster final performance coming because, ahead of Saturday evening’s showdown, I felt a degree of trepidation about facing an in-form Dublin outfit.

Sean Fitzgerald has been confirmed as a contestant on the reality TV dating show Love Island.

Galway's senior footballers get their All-Ireland campaign underway this Saturday evening when they take on Kildare at Pearse Stadium.

Not since their entry into the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship in 2009 have Galway looked better placed to claim the Bob O’Keeffe Cup. On paper, they now appear the strongest side in the competition and, with three consecutive wins behind them, they are well positioned to reach another provincial decider.

The six points Galway have already accumulated in Division One of this year’s National Football League would have been enough to guarantee safety in seven of the last nine seasons played under this format. The reason it’s not eight from ten is the Covid-impacted 2021 campaign, when the divisions were split into North and South sections.

The fear of looking back on his life as he breathed his last and realising that he had not lived it being true to himself was one of the main reasons why Adrian Varley (33) stopped drinking. That fear was far greater than giving up alcohol, says the former Galway Senior footballer.