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Connacht make their first home appearance of the season, and they do not come much bigger than Irish rivals Munster.

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 continued to rise in Mayo this week - which now has 30 more confirmed cases than Galway and 100 more than the other three Connacht counties of Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon combined.

The Connacht Property Auction held its first public auction of 2020 on Thursday in The Menlo Park Hotel, Galway. Of the 17 properties on offer, 14 were successfully sold, giving an 82 per cent success rate for the first event of the year. After a successful run of auctions in 2019, the auction team were expected to start 2020 off in a similar manner and they did not disappoint with strong interest in the majority of lots that were offered.

The Connacht Property Auction finished its year of public auction events on a high note, selling more than 85 per cent of the lots offered at its final public auction of the year, which took place last Thursday, November 21.

Connacht are back in the Sportsground on Saturday looking to open their home account in this season's PRO14 campaign against an ever-improving Benetton Treviso.

Mayo knew that things had to go in their favour elsewhere if they were to make next Sunday’s league final – but they still had to take care of business themselves to make sure they were still in with a shout of a place in the final.

Mayo's losing streak at MacHale Park finally came to an end last Saturday night as James Horan's charges accounted for Roscommon in round one of the NFL - by the slimmest of margins - winning out on a scoreline of 1-08 to 1-07.

The Connacht Property Auction finished its year of public auction events on a high note, selling 18 of the 21 lots offered at its final public auction of the year, which took place last Thursday, November 22.

Connacht stalwart Andrew Browne will end his playing days with the club at the end of this season.