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As Galway prepare for another monumental All-Ireland final, few players have embodied the county’s spirit and drive this season quite like Mairéad Dillon. The Kilconieron forward has not just stepped into the limelight — she’s seized it, delivering powerful performances that have helped power Galway back to the biggest stage. With her pace, accuracy, and composure under pressure, Dillon is one of the key reasons Galway fans are daring to believe again.

If you happen to be mingling with Mayo folk in advance of Sunday’s Connacht Senior Football Championship final and they’re bowling you over with gushing praise for the quality of this Galway team - while also at the same time talking down their own prospects - my advice would be to smile, nod, and say the bare minimum.

There is no transfer window in camogie, but if there was, Galway's capture of Niamh Mallon would be hovering around the multi-million mark given the stature and threat the former Down player carries at the sharp end of this Galway team.

A score for the ages by Éanna Burke secured St. Thomas’ a much-deserved second All-Ireland senior hurling club title last Sunday in Croke Park after a titanic tussle with Kilkenny’s O’Loughlin Gaels.

Kilkenny 4-21 Galway 2-26

Moycullen's All-Ireland quest came to an end on Sunday afternoon when losing to Watty Grahams The Glen 1-11 to 0-12 in Croke Park.

Right on cue, the drizzle started to fall as the final few moments of the Galway adventure came to a heartbreaking conclusion in Croke Park.

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.

The Mayo tent was rolled up for another year, and another long winter of wondering and waiting will lie in store as a 71-years ticks into 72.

The story of this day will be talked about and remembered for generations to come in Kilmeena.