Senior status the prize for Sunday's winners in Salthill

THE stakes are at their highest as the four clubs still standing in the Intermediate Football Championship ready themselves for Sunday afternoon's semi-finals.
A win at Pearse Stadium will bring with it a final in early October. Far more lucrative than that, though, promotion to senior ranks is also on the line and that's all that will occupy Cortoon Shamrocks, Micheál Breathnach, Oughterard and Dunmore MacHales camps ahead of what are finals, for all intents and purposes.
It's a fascinating finale to what's been a predictably unpredictable renewal this year.

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