Galway 3-10, Dublin 0-6

Liam Donoghue's Galway camogie side almost ensured a place in the Gala All Ireland Senior Camogie Championship semi finals when they defeated Dublin with relative ease at Killimor on Saturday.

• Cannings feature on Road to Croker
• Galvin case farce
• Galway hurlers set for Croke Park

The opening matches of the fourth annual international Umbro Galway Cup will take place in Terryland Park next Tuesday when Leeds Utd will play Newcastle Utd at 6pm followed by Ireland versus Ipswich Town at 7.30pm.

Salthill Devon chalked up their second win of the eircom A League when coming from behind to defeat city rivals Mervue United 2-1 at Fahy's Field with Enda Dunne getting a second-half winner.

Galway United face one of their most crucial weeks of the season this week as they travel to relegation rivals Finn Harps on Friday night, and host Derry City on Monday in the League Cup semi-final.

Galway United 0, Derry City 4

A blistering first-half performance from Derry City, in which they bagged four goals, clinched the three points in a very one-sided encounter in Terryland Park on Friday evening.

The final leg of the Fahy Trailers Connacht Grand Prix league takes place this weekend at the Claregalway equestrian centre in Rockwood on Sunday.

Week six . . . With less than two weeks to go before taking part in the Streets of Galway 8 Km Race, progress at this stage seems to have come to a standstill – in marathon terms I seem to have hit the wall.

The Diary supports the appeal for the Ray McBride Fund to get the great athlete, thespian, film star, dancer, choreographer, entertainer and raconteur a state of the art motorised wheelchair that would give him some freedom 'round town.

Cork 0-23, Galway 2-15

Ger Loughnane said that anything other than an All Ireland title would be a failure and Galway failed miserably in their first serious test of the qualifiers at Semple Stadium on Saturday evening as fourteen-man Cork marched to a deserved victory and pushed Galway hurling back to the pre-Loughnane era.