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Mission complete, just about. Mayo were involved in another roller-coaster of a contest last weekend when they played Clare in a winner-takes-all ticket to division one of the national football league for 2022.

As the old cliché goes, games are for winning and Mayo did that, just about.

After doing the heavy lifting in the opening three quarters last Saturday, like an experienced heavyweight working themselves back towards another title tilt somewhere down the track - Mayo will get some more rounds into their legs and lungs tomorrow afternoon in Mullingar.

The National football league has at last got under way and in style, with GAA fans all around the country drooling with the amount of games on in both hurling and football across all four divisions.

Not long after the game had ended in MacHale Park on Saturday afternoon, cones were laid out at the Bacon Factory end of the ground for a small training session game.

Mayo got life in division two off to a winning start in MacHale Park on Saturday, seeing off Down at their ease with a hard working and at times exciting display.

It’s going to be something very different for Mayo on Saturday for a number of reasons.

Just over a year ago a screeching halt was called on life as we knew it and with it the action on the sporting field.

It is 42 years since Eugene Macken captained St Colman's College, Claremorris, to Hogan Cup glory against Carmelite College, Moate - and the south Mayo school is still the only school from the county to claim the top prize in school's football since it started in 1946.