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The games will continue to come thick and fast for Mayo over the next number of weeks.

Despite a spirited second half comeback, Galway fell to old rivals Mayo in the FBD semi-final last weekend in the GAA Air Dome in Bekan.

Matthew Tierney might be too young to remember the last time that Galway claimed the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship back in 2001 - but he’s seen the tapes back plenty as he told the media in Pearse Stadium last week.

Padraic Joyce’s Galway will be looking to make it three wins from three when they face a winless Offaly in Pearse Stadium on Sunday (2pm).

Little is defined in the inter-county game in January, but Friday’s Connacht FBD League final success over Roscommon still ensures Galway will embrace upcoming challenges with optimism.

Padraic Joyce begin his third season at the helm of the Galway footballers this coming Friday in the NUI Galway Connacht Air Dome.

It all started for Seamus O'Shea in the green and red in a senior jersey on a wintry Sunday afternoon in Ballinrobe in January 2008 - the eldest of the O'Shea brothers got his first game time for Mayo as a senior as sub against NUIG in the FBD League that day.

The grand old ground in Tuam has seen plenty of tough battles down through the years between Mayo and Galway.

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.

The last time Mayo and Leitrim met on the football field was in James Horan’s first game of his second coming as Mayo manager, on a cold and dreary early January day last year.