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For the second time in 12 months Roscommon came to Castlebar in the FBD League and went home with a place in the final after beating Mayo on their own patch. How this season will be judged will be seen in the months that come on much sunnier days, but in this encounter the hungrier and more in tune visitors were deserved victors.

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Let Love Shine a Light ecumenical service takes place on Sunday January 17 at 3.45pm at the Rest and Care Centre in Knock. All those for whom lights are sponsored will be remembered and prayed for at the service. Refreshments served after the service. All are welcome.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is urging everyone in Mayo to ‘Go Green in 2016’ and to make environmental awareness your top New Year’s resolution. Over the festive season households in Mayo are set to produce almost 1,500 tonnes of waste — that is equivalent to 1,500 small family cars. The EPA is appealing to residents to take action and make a New Year’s resolution to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

An experimental Mayo side got their Connacht GAA Senior Hurling League campaign off to a winning start with this twelve point win over an NUIG side in the Connacht GAA Centre in Bekan on Monday night.

On Sunday afternoon the FBD really gets serious when Mayo face their first inter-county opponents of the new season when they take on Roscommon in Hyde Park. The action on the sideline will be of as much interest for some observers as what's taking place on the field, with Kevin McStay, the man who wanted the Mayo job in late 2014 and didn't get it, and Stephen Rochford, the man who replaced the duo who got the post over McStay, going face to face. It will also be the meeting of two managers who in the last three years have both guided clubs from Connacht to glory in the All Ireland Senior Club Championship.

THOSE LOOKING to take up acting in 2016 and those seeking to improve their skills may want to check out the spring series of classes from the Galway Actors Workshop, in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, starting this month.

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation launched its new Christmas Charity Ball, with An Taoiseach and his wife Fionnuala Kenny on hand to do the honours. The newly named Mistletoe Ball will take place on Saturday December 12 in Breaffy House Resort. 

Mayo are on the look out for a new senior football manager after the inevitable resigning of joint managers Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly last Friday night. It was a somewhat embarrassing saga in the Mayo GAA family that such an event occurred. By the time Noel and Pat resigned I had simply had enough. I was so drained from talking about it and anxiously waiting for any developments that I was relieved there was closure.

It’s that time of year again, with the crisp busyness of autumn in the air and you are back to your routine, trying to decide on the most enjoyable ways of passing your free time as the days get shorter and gloomier.

First match for Galway: