Long serving Keating steps down as Chairman of the Galway FA

EAMONN Deacy Park will hold one of the first national soccer finals of 2016 when the Harding Cup decider is played at the Dyke Road venue on Sunday February 7.

NUI Galway will host the 2016 intervarsities soccer tournament which is confined to First Year students from Friday, February 5 to Sunday, February 7, and the draw has been favourable to the hosts, pitting them in the opposite side of the draw to last year’s two finalists, UCC and UL.

NUI Galway will take on DCU in the quarter-final on Friday, February 5, and the winners will take on either Trinity College or NUI Maynooth in the last four on Saturday, February 6. Holders UCC will take on the side they beat in last year’s final, UL, on the other side of the draw, with the winners likely to face UCD in the last four.

The draw has also been made for the senior competition, and see NUI Galway face a Preliminary Round clash with Queen’s University Belfast. The winners of that game will face either UCD or Royal College of Surgeons in the quarter-final, with hosts and holders, UCC, the likely opponents in the last four.

The Collingwood Cup is in its 102nd year, and will be hosted by UCC form Tuesday February 23 to Friday February 26, when the final will be played in The Mardyke in Cork.

Meanwhile, Galway United have announced two more signing for 2016, with defender Kilian Cantwell (21) remaining at the club for another year; while midfielder John Sullivan (25) joins from Bray Wanderers.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.