Shefflin and Joyce face early January fixtures with Galway

GALWAY senior team managers Henry Shefflin and Padraic Joyce will both be swinging into action in early January.

New hurling boss Shefflin will oversee his first competitive outing in the Walsh Cup tie against Offaly at Duggan Park on Sunday, January 9.

Following that outing, Galway face further Walsh Cup group games against Antrim in Abbotstown on Sunday, January 16, and Dublin at Parnell Park on Sunday, January 23. The final is scheduled for the last Sunday of the month.

Joyce, in his third year in charge of the Galway footballers, will commence the 2021 competitive season with a Connacht FBD League semi-final against Mayo in Bekan on Friday, January 7 (6pm). The final is scheduled for the following Friday.

Meanwhile, the GAA’s Masters Fixtures Plan for 2022 has been released, with the Galway hurlers also drawing Offaly in the opening round of the National League in a game which will be staged at Pearse Stadium on Sunday, February 6.

The Tribesmen’s other league fixtures are: away to Limerick on Saturday, February 12; home to Wexford on Sunday, February 27; away to Cork on Saturday, March 5; home to Clare on Sunday, March 20.

Though Galway’s path won’t be crossing with Kilkenny in the league unless they meet in the knock-out stages, a potential Pearse Stadium sell-out is on the cards when the counties collide in their Leinster Championship round-robin fixture on the weekend of April 30/May 1.

It would be Galway’s third match in the provincial campaign and is bound to attract huge interest, with all eyes being trained on the sideline battle between Shefflin and his former boss Brian Cody.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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