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Padraic Joyce’s Galway side suffered a disappointing defeat in a blustery Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Round six of the Premier League is done and dusted and I think it is fair to say that no one would have predicted Everton, Aston Villa, and Leeds being in the top six and Man City and Man United in the bottom seven at this stage of the season but this is the unpredictable beauty that is football.

It is all pretty simple for Mayo - win on Sunday against Tyrone and they will be playing division one football next season; lose and it is division two; draw and then they'll be waiting on results from elsewhere to come in, to see if they can cling on to their division one status.

An opportunity to ply their playing attributes within the top tier of national football league competition awaits Westmeath senior footballers this weekend following their comprehensive eight point victory over Laois in TEG Cusack Park, Mullingar, on Saturday afternoon.

Galway footballer manager Padraic Joyce says the only way is up after his side was humiliated by rivals Mayo in their return to inter-county action at the weekend.

Galway United make the trip to the Carlisle Grounds on Saturday for an SSE Airtricity League of Ireland first division encounter against table toppers Bray Wanderers aware that only a victory will suffice to have any chance of reaching a promotion play-off.

In normal circumstances James Horan would have been more than delighted with the performance put in by his team in a must win game yesterday, but with a cloud still hanging over any more action taking place this year and what the country is still facing into he was also thinking of the bigger picture.

In a year like no other, Mayo put in a performance far above anything they had been able to muster in their previous five outings in the league before the action was called to a halt in early Spring.

This year’s EirGrid All-Ireland semi-final will take place on Saturday at 4pm behind closed doors at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick (live on TG4).

Basketball returns to the courts with Galway clubs, Moycullen and NUIG Maree, back in Super League action for another season.