With the New York hurdle safely negotiated, Galway football manager Kevin Walsh says it's now time to focus on Leitrim.

The Tribesmen comfortably avoided a potential banana skin when seeing off the Exiles by 16 points in Gaelic Park on Sunday and Walsh says he never allowed his players - who are now through to a Connacht quarter-final at Carrick-on-Shannon on May 17th - to look beyond that game:

"It was always going to be a difficult challenge, I have been there myself a couple of times," the two-times All-Ireland winning midfielder notes in The Irish Examiner. "We knew New York were very well organised and they have made no secret of that. They have also had a lot of county players and a lot of class players.

"All of the focus was on dealing with New York, now we can look ahead to Leitrim and prepare for that. We have a good squad.

"Any of these guys who are wearing the maroon jersey they know it is a privilege to actually have the jersey so they will go back next week and they will work as hard as they can to try and dethrone the guys that are in there, and that is what the panel is all about."

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