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Galway u-21 captain Fiontán Ó Curraoin has had a busy lifestyle since January - juggling books and football.

Which would you rather do? Play well and lose? Or play badly, ride your luck a bit, and win?

The weather was absolutely Baltic in Tuam stadium last Saturday evening for the Galway and Mayo U-21 Connacht semi-final.

The Ballinasloe footballers, and their ever increasing band of supporters, head to Dublin for Sunday’s All-Ireland Junior final meeting with Kenmare Shamrocks (Kerry) at Croke Park (2pm).

Ballinasloe footballers made history on Sunday by qualifying for the Junior All-Ireland final at Croke Park on February 9. They defeated Port Mor (Armagh) on a score-line of 2-7 to 0-10 at a rain-swept Breffni Park in Cavan.

This Sunday a special gathering of the football people of Ballinasloe, past and present, takes place when St Grellan's head to Kingspan Breffini Park for the All-Ireland Junior football semi-final against Armagh’s An Port Mór at 2pm.

Mayo will wrap up their whistle stop FBD League campaign on Sunday in Ballyhaunis when they face Roscommon in their third game in seven days. Following last Sunday’s defeat away to Leitrim, James Horan watched his side crush the challenge of a very poor GMIT side in Ballinrobe on Wednesday evening. There were some positives to take from the easy win according to the Ballintubber clubman. “There were a few good things, we were sluggish against Leitrim the last day and Leitrim punished us. I suppose we were a little bit better today and we’ll be a little bit better at training on Friday and next Sunday as we build up to the National League.”

The thousand or so souls who turned out in Flanagan Park in Ballinrobe on Wednesday evening will have left the south Mayo venue none the wiser as to what 2013 will hold in store for the Mayo senior footballers.

This Saturday in Kiltoom (2pm) the footballers of Ballinasloe will hope to write some new history for the famed club when they take on Oran in the Connacht junior football final.

Ballaghaderreen v Garrymore