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Mayo 3-10

Galway basketball clubs take a break from league action this weekend to continue their senior men’s National Cup campaign.

Galway’s triple All-Star and new Sligo manager Kevin Walsh also features and he is candid in his assessment why Galway lost the Connacht final to Mayo in 1999 and failed to build on their 1998 success.

Thirteen years on from a bounce of a ball hopping over the bar and a one for all brawl in front of the Hill, Mayo will renew acquaintance with Meath in the championship looking for their first win over the Royal County since the heady summer of 1951. When the final whistle is blown on Sunday, the initial headlines will probably go to the forward who puts the ball over the bar for the winning score or kicks a handful of points over the 70 minutes. But no matter how good the front six are all victories have their foundation on those whose primary job is to stop the other side from putting the size five over the black spot or into the back of the net.

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Dicksboro ended the year on a good note last Sunday in Nowlan Park when they were far too strong for a gutsy Rower Inistioge side in the Michael Lyng U-21 ‘A’ hurling final. A small crowd turned up to witness the city side recording their 4th U-21 title, the first since '92.

Michael Shields v Stephen O’Neill

Isn’t it scary how quickly things change? Who would have thought that by the end of 2008 we would all be looking at the world in a different light? I certainly didn’t.

THE OVER The Edge readings will celebrate its sixth year in existence with a reading by Tom French in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 22 at 6.30pm.

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