Irish champion Gary O'Flaherty will take a two-stroke lead into Sunday's final round of the Connacht Mid-Amateur Championship at Galway Golf Club.

The Cork interprovincial followed an opening 74 with six birdies in a two under 68 to lead on two over par from Ballybunion's Peter Sheehan (76-68) and local favourite Eddie McCormack (73-71), the recently crowned Ulster champion.

The cut for the top 30 and ties fell at 17 over 157.

Connacht Mid-Amateur Championship, Galway GC (Par 70)

After 36 of 54 holes

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Final round tee-times (PDF)

Qualifiers

142 Gary O'Flaherty (Cork) 74 68 

144 Peter Sheehan (Ballybunion) 76 68, Eddie McCormack (Galway) 73 71 

145 Eamonn Haugh (Castletroy) 72 73 

146 Sean Alley (Co. Tipperary) 74 72, Billy Donlon (Birr) 72 74 

147 Joe Lyons (Galway) 75 72, Serryth Heavey (Co. Sligo) 74 73 

148 David Kelleher (Portmarnock) 74 74, Joe Crangle (Fortwilliam) 74 74 

149 Ronan Maher (Mullingar) 75 74, Pat Bevins (Carlow) 75 74, Rob Fitzpatrick (Dunmurry Springs) 72 77 

150 Ciaran Campbell (Carton House) 76 74, Mark Collins (Killeen Castle) 75 75 

151 Peter Kane (Ashbourne) 76 75, Dara Bruen (Castlerea) 76 75, Liam Halpin (Westport) 76 75, Tom Nolan (Galway) 75 76 

152 Kevin Canavan (Corballis Links) 78 74, Joe Bernie (Athenry) 75 77 

154 Tony McClements (Holywood) 79 75, Cathal Madden (Loughrea) 76 78 

155 Colm Murphy (Clandeboye) 80 75, Fergus Harrold (Castletroy) 77 78 

156 William Jones (Youghal) 77 79, Conor Waters (Athenry) 75 81, Tony Cleary (Dromoland) 75 81 

157 Michael Eaton (Holywood) 78 79, Brian Scullion (Lurgan) 78 79, Denis Cullen (Carton House) 75 82 

Non-qualifiers

158 David Scully (Galway) 83 75, Colm McIlroy (Holywood) 82 76, John Bodkin (Tuam) 78 80, Rory Timlin (Galway) 74 84, Michael Darcy (Oughterard) 73 85 

159 Denis O'Donovan (Charleville) 80 79, Martin Ruane (Galway) 80 79, Ronan Cooney (Lahinch) 80 79, Alan Doherty (Corrstown) 80 79, Eddie Mulholland (Galway) 79 80, Ken Irwin (Castlebar) 76 83 

160 Gordon Hutchinson (Royal Belfast) 80 80, Declan McInerney (Lahinch) 78 82, David Lally (Mullingar) 76 84 

161 Gordon Eivers (Forrest Little.) 83 78, Ian Smyth (Clandeboye) 80 81 

162 Martin Higgins (Claremorris) 78 84 

163 Dermot McKenna (Blainroe) 79 84 

164 Gerard O'Farrell (Galway) 82 82 

165 Damien Coyne (Tuam) 84 81 

166 Andrew Norrby (Balmoral) 82 84 

167 Trevor Dooley (Forrest Little.) 80 87 

168 Alan Moran (Tuam) 83 85 

169 Daniel McGrath (Tuam) 85 84 

170 Frank Ford (Oughterard) 84 86 

171 Gary Currie (Fortwilliam) 92 79, Ben Rittweger (East Clare) 89 82 

174 Martin Colohan (Fortwilliam) 87 87 

177 David Geraghty (Blainroe) 87 90 

179 Shane O'Donoghue (Clonmel) 88 91 

182 Fergal O'Flaherty (Co. Sligo) 88 94 

NR/WD  Colin Cassidy (Portmarnock) NR 76, Derek Basquill (Enniscrone) 74 NR, Gerard Noone (Claremorris) 77 NR, Noel Crawford (Mourne) 78 NR, Paul Glynn (Galway) 79 NR, Liam O'Reilly (Oughterard) 81 NR, Bobby O'Donoghue (Castletroy) 81 NR, Gary Purtill (Dromoland) 84 NR, Christian Leonard (Beaverstown) 86 NR, Brendan Penney (Athenry) 87 NR, Richard Williams (Naas) DQ 80, Barry Gormley () DQ 80, Mario Costelloe (Roscommon) 80 WD, Gerry O'Sullivan (Galway) 87 WD