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The second round of action in the Mayo GAA Senior Football Championship saw plenty of thrills and spills last weekend across the county.

Two Galway footballers have been shortlisted for the Footballer of the Year in the PwC All-Stars football nominations for 2022.

World Champion and Olympian, Sonia O’Sullivan who is one of the country’s most successful athletes and undoubtedly one of the greatest Irish sports people ever, will deliver the keynote presentation at the 2022 BiG* Leaders’ Summit in Galway at The Galmont Hotel, on September 13.

The Mayo tent was rolled up for another year, and another long winter of wondering and waiting will lie in store as a 71-years ticks into 72.

We have been put through the wringer on several occasions in the last number of years in nail-biting games, you would think we would be used to it by now.

It was far from a vintage performance against Monaghan but the ultimate objective was achieved. Mayo won and were in the bowl for the round two qualifier draw which took place last Monday morning, which of course paired us against Kildare for this Saturday evening in Croke Park.

It was never going to be perfect, because it never is - and after six weeks without a competitive game it was going to be a matter of getting the job done and blowing out the engine ahead of bigger challenges.

It’s never ordinary with Mayo. They won and are in the second round of the qualifiers, but it could very easily have been different if referee Barry Cassidy had decided to give Monaghan a penalty in injury time when Conor Lenonard looked to have been fouled after he intercepted a poor ball back to Lee Keegan, by Aidan O’Shea.

It's something familiar and yet something new that Mayo face into tomorrow afternoon in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.