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The last four teams left standing in the Claregalway Hotel Senior Football Championship take centre stage this Sunday in an attractive double header at Tuam stadium.

This was a tough uncompromising game of Gaelic football. It was 0-5 to 0-5 at half-time, with nine of those scores coming from placed balls.

Moycullen who will face Killererin in the county quarter finals in three weeks time had a good win over Naomh Anna Leitir Móir in Pearse stadium last weekend, winning on a score-line of 1-16 to 1-11.

Travelling down the Curragh line on Sunday morning to McHale Park for the Connacht minor final, it was difficult to anticipate anything except a Mayo victory. Their third in a row since Galway’s last win back in 2007.

The Galway senior hurlers will have it all to do next Sunday at 4pm in Croke Park when they take on Tipperary in the All-Ireland quarter-final.

It often takes a piece of individual magic to separate teams in a tight contest and so it proved in Pearse Stadium on Sunday. St Mary’s Leaving Cert student Fiach Ó Bearra stroked over a spectacular winner to see Micheal Breathnachs defeat an unlucky St Michael’s by 0-10 to 1-6.

Caherlistrane progressed to the last 16 in the Claregalway Hotel County Football Championship in Pearse Stadium on Sunday, defeating Carraroe by three points, 0-13 to 1-07.

Talking to Galway’s hurling manager John McIntyre during the week about this Sunday’s national hurling league final against Cork was a breath of fresh air. No clichés. No boring “we’ll do our best”. Or the other classic: “It’s only the league, and if we win, we win. And if we don’t, it’s the championship that counts.”

This Easter weekend is of pivotal importance in the young football careers of the U21s from both Westmeath and Roscommon. Both counties will contest their respective provincial finals at a time when football in each county is crying out for a lift. To win on Sunday would further enhance the growing reputation already being forged by quite a few representatives of each side and offer hope of better days to come at senior level in the future.

Saturday night, in round six of the National football league, the Galway footballers take on Pat Gilroy’s Dublin in Parnell Park (7.30pm).