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Minister of State Dara Calleary TD has paid tribute to the late Mary Jo Murray nee Battle of Park Road, Swinford, who passed away last week.

€160,000 has been raised for local groups by C&C Cellular, with management from Mid West Radio, in a recycling mobile phones campaign for defibrillators along with a recent Charity Ball held in Breaffy House Hotel last weekend.

Sunday August 30

Swinford made their way into quarter finals of the Mayo intermediate championship last weekend thanks to a 1-11 to 1-6 win over Davitts in Ballyhaunis. The east Mayo men became the seventh team into the last eight, with one spot left up for grabs in the competition. On Sunday in Bonniconlon Davitts will get their second bite at the cherry when they take on Belmullet in a winner takes all clash at 2pm. The play-off was necessitated by all three sides finishing level on points in their group and one game in the group not being played, and a walk over handed to Belmullet, so points difference couldn’t be taken into consideration.

When the play off to decide who came out of the Belmullet, Davitts, and Swinford triple headache was drawn most would have expected the final berth in the last eight to be decided by the time the quarter finals of the competition rolled around. But that is not the case, Swinford managed to come through the first game and book their place, but there has been no separating Belmullet and Davitts over the last two weekends. One hundred and forty minutes of football have not been able to separate them so far and they must do it again on Sunday for a third time in Ballina, with Cill Chomain waiting patiently for the winners. Who will come through between Belmullet and Davitts is really a toss of a coin, both teams know each other inside and out by now and on Sunday you would expect someone to blink or make a mistake that could prove decisive.

If you are interested in taking part in Fit4Life, a local group which meets and trains together to improve fitness through walking and running go along to one of the weekly fitness sessions in Ballina, Claremorris, Breaffy, Swinford, or Westport.

Child Protection in Sport, Sports First Aid, Sports Leadership Training, and Disability Awareness Training are just some of the upcoming sports volunteer training courses which will be available through the partnership over the coming months. Details can be obtained by contacting www.mayosports.ie/CalendarofEventsTrainingCourses/ or phone 094 904 7025.

A Swinford woman who told the court she was “foolish” after being caught drink driving was fined €500 and disqualified from driving for two years at Ballyhaunis District Court this week. Caroline Leonard, Barnacouge, Swinford, was stopped by Garda Noelle Murphy on February 23 2009 at 11.10pm at Gowlan, Kilkelly. She was arrested by Garda Murphy and brought to Ballina Garda station where she gave a urine sample which had a reading of 174mg of alcohol per 100ml of urine.

Since January 2009 the Fibs for Phones campaign promoted by C&C Cellular and Midwest Radio has raised more than €163,000.

Ballina Town claimed the Tom Kelly trophy at home on Sunday thanks to an 8-1 win over Fahy Rovers in Pete Murray Park. Brendan Kenny's side's 14th win of the season was wrapped up thanks to five goals from star striker Michael Duffy, two from Brendan Lavelle and a single strike from Ross Kenny. Town went through the season unbeaten at home and picked up 44 points from their 18 games to claim the title after knocking at the door for the past couple of seasons.