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The Mayo Ladies senior footballers are back in the final four of the All Ireland Senior Football Championship and it is where they belong - even with the team and current management team only coming together earlier this year, says manager Michael Moyles.

The Mayo Ladies' senior footballers will face off against All Ireland champions Dublin tomorrow evening in the LIT Gaelic Grounds in Limerick at 5.15pm for a place in the LGFA National Football League Division One final.

A round-up of some of what’s happening around the county this weekend including Russian opera, alien abductions, music circles, a year in the life of a willow tree and onstage comedy.

IT Sligo manager and former Mayo junior team manager, Michael Moyles has joined up as part of the Mayo ladies management team for this year. The Crossmolina native will be coming on board with Peter Clarke’s current management team who are going into their second year in charge of Mayo.

It’s probably forgotten by a lot of people, but along with reaching the All Ireland senior final last year, Mayo also reached the junior equivalent of the competition also, where they came unstuck against a classy Kerry side in Cusack Park in Ennis.

The monthly winners of the Mayo League awards for May were announced this week. And unsurprisingly, Westport United were the big winners of three awards, including club of the month. The Covies picked up their first Connacht Junior Cup in 25 years during May with a historic win over Athenry 4-2 on penalties. They have also had a 100 per cent start in the Elverys Sports Super League this year and have 18 points from their first six games and are currently well out in front of the pack.

Throughout the late nineties and through to the middle of the last decade, Michael Moyles was one of the most recognisable players in the club game in the county and with Mayo on more than a few occasions. But injury put paid to his footballing career long before time. Six years have passed since then and Moyles has been all over the province managing a number of sides, but this year the lure of his home club was to much to resist when they came calling. “I was in Leitrim managing Annaduff for the past two years, the first year we got to a league final and were beaten and had a good run in the championship and were unlucky to be knocked out,” he said. “The next year we won a league final and lost a championship semi-final that we probably should have won. We were making progress and it is hard to leave somewhere when you see progress being made. But I got calls from the likes of Stephen Rochford and Ciaran McDonald and other senior lads and I spoke to some of the younger lads, when this came up. It was always something that I wanted to do and it might have come around quicker than I would have expected, but I’m delighted to be managing my own club.”

The Aftermath return with some festive cheer this year with their version of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood Christmas classic ‘The Power of Love’.

An 47-year-old man who sexually assaulted a woman in her 30s as she worked in a newsagents in Ballina was sentenced to jail for five months at this week’s sitting of Ballina District Court.