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Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 1-14; Naas (Kildare) 0-10 Great teams have a penchant for finding a way to win in close encounters of the GAA kind and you...

AIB Connacht Senior Football Championship Final ST BRIGID’S 1-13 COROFIN 2-5 Kevin Egan at Dr. Hyde Park. St. Brigid’s are back on top of the heap in Connacht…

Anthony Hennigan at Pearse Stadium Ballina Stephenites exited the Connacht club senior championship on Saturday afternoon, losing to the competition’s most…

Mayo champions lose out by four points to Galway kingpins

<p>Saturday 18 November AIB Connacht Club SFC semi-final Corofin (Galway) v Ballina Stephenites (Mayo), Pearse Stadium, 2pm This should be a fascinating encounter between two teams who play different brands of football. Corofin can hurt you with angled kicked deliveries, whereas Ballina prefer to break you down by holding onto</p>

Corofin won the Galway senior football championship for the 22nd time in their history this afternoon beating reigning champions Moycullen.

Defeat to Mayo in the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final marked a disappointing end for Pádraic Joyce’s side.

Little did I think that in trying to explain the scoring permutations in last weeks column, they would have such relevance for the fate of six teams last weekend. There were frantic finishes to three games in three different venues that had serious consequences for the teams involved.

Galway’s 0-16 to 1-12 loss to Armagh on Sunday afternoon knocked them off the top spot in the group stage, and the result is a preliminary quarter-final against Mayo in Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Race for Sam Maguire and Tailteann Cups get going in earnest.