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Oranmore Maree, well-established as Galway’s basketball nursery, is set to embark on a new development with a men’s team in the National League.

Maree produced an encouraging start in their first National League fixture against the 2009 champions Ballon on Saturday, and while Ballon’s greater experience prevailed at the end, this was a game that could have gone either way.

Twenty-nine NUIG students have received sports scholarships this year.

Moycullen, finding life in basketball’s fast lane a little tough, are looking for their first Superleague victory when they travel to Dublin on Sunday to face a DCU Saints side that received a morale-boosting victory over Belfast Star at the weekend.

Moycullen face a key basketball cup fixture this weekend.

•The Adventures of Championship & Other Cruciate Stories, a humorous GAA CD.If you love Gaelic games, you’ll love this, says RTE broadcaster Des Cahill. “Real on-the-button GAA humour that gets to the heart of what the GAA is all about. The CD features a collection of 18 radio essays first broadcast on RTE Drivetime Sports over the past three summers. The collection, by journalist Liam Horan, includes the character, Championship Man, which was first created by Horan in the summer of 2007 and became a favourite on the Drivetime Sports programme. The CD (€15) can be purchased on www.ChampionshipMan.com. or email: [email protected]

“Much done, a lot more to do,”says Moycullen men’s basketball coach Enda Byrt after his side finished the first half of the season with a loss to pacesetters UL Eagles.

Several Galway basketball clubs will be in action over the coming weeks in national cup events.

Maree’s young u-12 basketball stars are following in the footsteps of their more senior clubmates after winning the Vork Under 12 Open.

•A novel scrappage scheme for hurling helmets, supported by Galway star Joe Canning, is due to start nationwide in the near future. The scheme, which will run until February 21, will enable players to scrap any make or model of helmet, with or without a faceguard, and receive a discount on a new MARC IS355 certified helmet. In addition, MARC Sports’ chosen children’s charity, Make-A-Wish®, Ireland; will receive a donation for every helmet that is scrapped.Speaking about the first scrappage scheme run for hurling helmets, director general of the GAA, Paraic Duffy commented “MARC Sports is to be commended for launching this innovative scheme, which will ultimately increase the safety of our playing members. The IS355 approved hurling helmet is an important standard for the use of helmets and we wish MARC Sports every success with this campaign.”