Galway's fixtures in the 2008 Allianz football and hurling league fixtures have been announced.

There was late drama at the Sportsground on Friday night as both sides came within a whisker to snatching victory with last gasp drop goals.

Sheer class should always come out in a final and Padraic Joyce has spent most of his career doing just that, the latest instalment coming Pearse Stadium yesterday as he guided Killererin to their fifth Galway SFC title.

St James 0-13
Monivea/Abbey 1-9

St James retained their Galway minor football title when they held off the challenge of Monivea/Abbey at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

A coach from an Intermediate hurling club asks:

"The season didn't go too well for us - we didn't really recover from a heavy defeat early on and I never felt the camp was truly united. With a view to next year, how can we improve our teamwork and spirit?"

We are all supposed to learn from mistakes, aren't we? Yet the over-riding impression after watching the '20 Moments Which Shook Irish Sport' on RTE on Monday night is the next bout of incidents are just waiting to happen.

Over 15,000 tickets have been sold for Connacht's Magners League clash against Leinster at the RDS on Friday.

Moycullen captured the county intermediate football crown with a 1-11 to 1-9 win over Monivea-Abbey at Pearse Stadium on Saturday.

Buccaneers 8
Clonakility 3

Buccaneers got life in Division Two of the AIB League off to an encouraging start when they defeated Clonakilty in a keenly contested tussle at Dubarry Park on Satudray.

Galwegians 10
St. Mary's College 8

Galwegians pulled a win out of the bag against St Mary's in the fourth minute of injury time at Crowley Park on Saturday when Eamon Molloy landed a drop goal to snatch victory on the opening weekend of the AIB League.