Corinthians Mini Rugby is ready for another season of fun and rugby starting on Saturday @ 10.00am for girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Come out and have a look is the invitation from Corinthians RFC, contact 086 1735135. 

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The Galwegian Youth Academy got underway last Saturday but registration will take place again for Under 7 to Under 18 each Saturday in September between 10.00am and 12 noon. Details from Alan 086 3692958.

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And the Oughterard Rugby Club had a registration day last Saturday and if you didn’t make it, no matter, call Ger Roche on 087 2855759.

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The Diary enjoyed the Connacht Munster Under 20 game on Friday night. Connacht lost out 18/10, 3 tries to 2 tries. It is not often that the score in a rugby match has five times as many points from tries as from kicks. Good value. Some interesting names on the Connacht team. For a start we had a Henshaw from Buccs, and an O’Beirn of Ballinasloe but originally from the Galway rugby family, the uncle Francis played for Connacht (1987) and so did the grand dad Peadar (1930s & 1940s), captained the side in 1941. Bartley Nolan’s young lad David played in the second row. Andrew Sherry, son of former Galwegian Chairman John Sherry, started on the bench. But the star turn was the Connacht hooker, Ballinasloe’s Stanley Hayes (Shannon RFC), son of Joe Hayes the Ballinasloe past President. Stanley finished the two tries and was probably the busiest player on the field. An interesting name on the Munster side was Stanley’s opposite number Mike Sherry, yep, son of Mick Sherry who played with Connacht 1972-76. And the Munster captain was called Deasy, very good too. Now if it was Deacy, might be one of ours!

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Buccaneers beat Galwegians 29/8 in the first domestic game of the season, a Connacht Senior League game, on Saturday in Crowley Park. Buccs scored 5 tries against one for Wegians. Buccs did most of the business against the wind in the second half.

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Eddie the Eagle was absent from the Connacht/Castres game on Saturday. The match announcer said he had bird flu! Get well soon.

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The long-standing and famed Ross Sports, revived some six years ago, will be held in the Community Grounds Killanin on Sunday at 1.00pm. A community led day, the sports has some quirky and interesting events such as a Farmer’s Walk, Tossing the Sheaf and Tug O War as well as the usual programme of athletics. Frank Walsh told the Diary ‘a good day guaranteed’.

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And the Killanin 7 a Side produced a Killanin v Carna final with the host side winning 2-8 to 2-6. Killanin will now have a day out at the Kilmacud Crokes 7 a Side on All Ireland Football weekend. Enjoy.

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Meelick Eyrecourt, Turloughmore and Liam Mellows reached the quarter-finals of the Kilmacud Crokes 7 a Side and Pearses the defending champions were the beaten finalists in the Junior 7 a Sides.

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Galway United is at home to Drogheda United on Friday (K/O 7.45). Another home win? Maybe, but it will be difficult enough, Drogheda are top of the table.

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There is a supporters’ night in Fibber Magees on Friday after the Drogheda game. ‘Standing Room Only’ will have a DJ, finger food and bar extension, admission is 5 euro.

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The Kilimor 4 mile and Junior 1 mile will be held on Sunday. 086 3001954 sound familiar? Mary Porter’s mobile!

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Croí stage a Connemara Ramble on Sunday 23rd. 091 544331 and their friends in Annaghdown hold an Am Am in Ballinrobe tomorrow, 094 9541118. The Suileen Fun Run in aid of Tuam Cancer Care is on Sunday 30th September, 093 70875. The date of the Galway Bay 10 is Saturday 6th October @ 2.00pm. 1890 400 200, www.galwaybay10.com

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The Goal Ball is fixed for Friday 5th October in the Clayton Hotel. Goal’s Ronan Scully and Clara Slattery on 091 587901 have the details.

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The Galway Darts Association outing goes ahead on Sunday in Grealish’s of Carnmore.

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The Golf Classic in aid of Debra Ireland is on Saturday at Cregmore Park Hotel & Golf Club. Dermot Moran 087 2319336.

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Galway Co. Board Chairman Gerry Larkin and Football Board Chairman Pat Egan addressed the Fr. Griffins Football Club 40 year celebration at the Clayton Hotel on Friday. A good night was had by the big attendance.

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So many wonderful moments on the world stage when Paul Hession and Olive Loughnane distinguished themselves so well at the World Athletics Championships and especially when Alan Martin and Cormac Folan won a place at the Beijing Olympics next year, at the World Rowing Championships in Munich. All world class stuff.

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The Salthill Devon soccer girls played Stella Maris of Dublin in the final of the  FAI Under 18 Girls Cup. This is the Salthill team that all bar one is under 16!It was 2-2 well into the second half before the older Dublin girls pulled away and the game finished 5-2. Lucy Hannon and Julieanne Russell scored the Galway team’s goals. But something even more significant is that Julieanne was named player of the game, most unusual as she was of course a member of the losing side! A great achievement. Now if we had any decency we should settle on that as the sporting moment of the week. The Salthill girls are on the road again next Sunday when they meet Lakewood of Cork in the semi-final of the Under 16 Cup! Fingers crossed.

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By all accounts the goal finished by Barry Dooney, the corner back for Salthill Knocknacarra, after a forty metre run, against Killererin in the drawn championship game on Sunday in Tuam Stadium for the real McCoy. But for pure drama when the same game was eight minutes into extra time the big Killererin goalkeeper Alan Keane kicked a 45 over the bar to force a replay, and that was the sporting moment of the week.