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This weekend sees the Brooks County Senior and Senior B and WINAHOMEGALWAY Intermediate Hurling Finals take place in Duggan Park and Pearse Stadium. 

Ballindereen and Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry meet in the Intermediate Final, Ahascragh/Fohenagh face Mullagh in the Senior B Final Replay and St Thomas and Turloughmore meet in one of the most anticipated Senior Hurling Finals in many years. 

Galway Bay FM broadcast a special Over The Line on Friday looking ahead to all three games and the Junior 1 Hurling Final between Salthill/Knocknacarra and Ballinasloe. 

Niall Canavan and Sean Walsh were joined by special guests Cyril Donnellan, Cyril Farrell, Aonghus Callinan who captained Liam Mellows to the County Senior title in 2017 and Andy Coen who was Gort's winning captain in 2011. 

Presented by Gerry Murphy.

Connacht host Glasgow Warriors this Saturday (28th October) in Round 2 of the BKT  United Rugby Championship.

This has the makings of one of the games of the weekend, with both teams having recorded bonus point victories in Round 1.

Galway Bay FM's William Davies previews the game as well with reaction and latest news.

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Kick-off at the Sportsground is 3pm and we'll have full online coverage on our website galwaybayfm.ie.

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Newly-promoted head coach Pete Wilkins is looking for Connacht to build on their 34-26 triumph over the Ospreys as they go into the second of three successive home games at the start of the season.

“It was super important for us to win in front of our fans and show some glimpses of what we want to be about,” he said.

“It wasn’t perfect, but there were enough snap shots of what we are trying to do in attack and some really good defensive sets.

“That will only get better and we will develop and build that over the weeks to come.”

Commenting on Glasgow, Wilkins said: “The fact they had so many Scottish internationals back against Leinster is no coincidence in terms of how they are going after this season and how they wanted to start it.

“When you come up against them, you are playing pretty much a XV of international players. We need to approach it with that sort of respect and that sort of mindset.

“We will need to get better from where we were last weekend. It’s a really exciting match up.”Glasgow have two more players back from World Cup duty in Scotland lock Richie Gray and Tongan flanker Sione Vailanu, while George Horne steps up to start at scrum-half.

Looking at Connacht, head coach Franco Smith said: “They are a very good side. They turned Ulster over 12 times at the breakdown in the quarter-final last season and their attitude and the way they went about that was extraordinary, We have the utmost respect for them as a team. We know they have a three game run at home which means they would like to build an innings at the start of the season, so we expect an enormous challenge.”

Gerry and George were joined by Kevin Dwyer and Mike Rafferty to discuss the sporting weekend in Galway.

Connacht Head Coach Pete Wilkins was the special guest on Over The Line on Monday Night. 

Pete joined the province as assistant coach at the start of the 2017-18 season and since then has become an integral part of the Province becoming Head Coach of Connacht Rugby at the start of this season. 

He was also named as Assistant Coach for Ireland's successful summer tour of New Zealand. 

Pete joined Gerry, George and William in the studio to speak about the season ahead.