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Galway captain Sean Kelly in fitness race ahead of crunch showdown with Armagh

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Sean Kelly is wary of pushing his hamstring problem as a flare means he could be “done for the year.” The Galway captain says it was “a real pain” having to sit out the All-Ireland round robin victory over Westmeath at the weekend.

Kelly is now in a race against time to prove his fitness for the crunch encounter with Armagh in a week and a half. It’s a winner takes all tie with the victor topping the group and going straight into an All-Ireland quarter-final.




The runner up goes into a preliminary quarter-final and faces a treacherous path, having to play three championship games in 14 days and facing a side off a fortnight’s break in the last eight – if they can get there.

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12 months ago the sides met at the same stage of the Championship with Armagh edging Galway out by a point at Carrick-on-Shannon with Sligo’s Markievicz Park the venue for this season’s clash.

Kelly, who was forced out of the Round 1 All-Ireland series win over Derry near the end of the game, said: “I just picked up another knock which is a bit annoying.

“But at the same time we’ll see how the next few weeks go and hopefully I’ll get back as soon as possible. I’m still trying to find the exact timeline. It was just a flare-up of a hamstring injury.

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