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Special Olympics Connaught is launching a major fundraising initiative through a secondary schools’ talent competition.

Friday September 24

The bookmakers have it that it will be a clash of north against south for the Moclair cup come next month, and while that may be where the money is going, it would be a foolish man who is counting out the chances of the men from the west ahead of Sunday.

Castlebar Cycling Club is gearing up for its two day charity sponsored cycle, starting today, Friday September 17, through to tomorrow Saturday September 18, in support of Western Care Association services throughout Mayo.

When I got involved managing teams a number of years ago, I was occasionally like a headless chicken running up and down the line, cajoling players, kicking every ball, often shouting at backs and forwards to get out in front, telling players where to kick the ball, etc. I recall coming home from some games totally wrecked. In fact I often came home years earlier having played a match feeling much fresher. Managing a team can milk you dry. Thankfully, and I am sure much to the relief of the players I am involved with, I have calmed down a little in recent years. But for some strange reason, I found myself getting rather excited and agitated on the line last Sunday. Crossmolina are trying to win the senior league in order to take something positive out of our season. We had a home league game against Ballina Stephenites and after the first fifteen minutes I realised that this was a game we were desperately trying to lose. We were playing absolute crap! One of our players had celebrated his 21st the night before and I could see that a number of others had helped him with the celebration. We eventually got our act together though and just about managed to hang on and win the match by two points. It was mediocre stuff, but at this stage of the season, we would be happy to pick up two points from our remaining two matches and win the league.

Saturday afternoon promises to be a battle in the west that is not to be missed. Ballintubber, who are going for three in a row, will face off against local rivals Castlebar Mitchels who are still smarting from last year’s final defeat. The two west Mayo clubs breezed through the competition up to the semi-final stage where both Claremorris and St Gerald’s put it up to them, setting up tomorrow’s mouth watering encounter.

Dance classes resume on September 13 in Ballina, Lacken, Crossmolina, Kiltimagh, Charlestown, Belmullet, Ballinrobe and Newport.

If someone were to ask you what one night, seven locations, 15 venues and hundreds of people have in common, what would you say? Well all these elements together give us Culture Night, which this year falls on Friday September 24. The main focus of the evening will be on access, therefore participating venues will extend opening hours and organise events which are free of charge and open to the public.

Following the quarter finals in the senior and the intermediate championships last weekend, attention will turn to the junior championship in the county this weekend. The action will get under way on Saturday with the meeting of Ardnaree and Parke in McHale Park at 5pm. The north Mayo men made it as far as the final last season, going down by two points in the final to Kiltimagh. En route to the final they knocked out their opponents in the semi final stage. The west Mayo men will be looking for revenge, after nearly making the break through to senior football a couple of years ago, before tumbling down to the junior grade they have been pushing hard to make it back up to the intermediate ranks.