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Galway's GAA fans are back on the road again this weekend when they face another trek to Croke Park for the much-anticipated All Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final against Derry.

Where the hell do you start with this? An afternoon that had everything that you want to and don’t want to see on a football field - the great and the good, the old and the new and something completely different to round it off.

In a chaotic match Galway's character and class was evident which pleased manager Pádraic Joyce.

Galway face Armagh this weekend an intriguing All-Ireland SFC quarter final at Croke Park on Sunday (1.45pm).

Mayo's championship aspirations for 2022 will be put to the acid test as they take on Monaghan in a mouth-watering clash on Saturday in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park in a round one qualifier.

It was a case of third time lucky for Padraic Joyce, who won his first Connacht final as the Galway senior manager on Sunday in Pearse Stadium.

Last Sunday's way below par performance and subsequent defeat by our biggest Connacht rivals - Galway - made it a very bitter pill to swallow for the Mayo faithful who travelled to Hastings Insurance MacHale Park in huge numbers.

Padraic Joyce managed Galway to a championship victory over Mayo for the first time on Sunday with a superb 1-14 to 0-16 victory in over their arch rivals in Castlebar.

They could have forced it to extra time at the death, when Aiden Orme took aim from the stand side of the field and kicked for a point but his effort tailed just wide of the target and from Connor Gleeson’s kick-out David Coldrick blew the final whistle.

There's nothing quite like a Mayo versus Galway championship encounter to whet the appetite for championship football. Rivalries have come and gone in other provinces, the likes of Meath and Dublin in Leinster and Cork and Kerry in Munster are no longer as appealing as they once were because of the dominance and stranglehold that Dublin and Kerry possess within their provinces.