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Mayo’s championship season will get underway on Sunday, thousands of miles away from home when they take on New York in the preliminary round of Connacht Senior Football Championship in Gaelic Park at 7.30pm Irish time.

The Pull, the popular comedy show by Liam Horan and John Corless of Half Solid Productions, will be performed at Ballina Arts Centre tonight (Friday) at 8 pm.

It was All-Ireland final heartbreak for another Mayo team as Castlebar Mitchels fell to the might of St Vincent’s on St Patrick’s Day. We will never know what might have happened if Richie Feeney had not received a black card after only five minutes.

Two young Mayo actors are currently showcasing their talents on Sky One hit show Moone Boy. Ian O’Reilly from Moorehall, Ballyglass, and Siubhán Conlon from Carnacon who learned their trade at All Stars Academy of Performing Arts in the Ballyheane studio are rubbing shoulders with a number of stars on the hit TV show. Ian who stars as Padraig in the show, also appered on the Late Late Show last Friday night to talk about the new series. Siubhán plays Trudy in the show starring and created by Hollywood star and Roscommon native Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls, The It Crowd).

Kiltane dream ends in Croker

As the first few days of the new year roll into life, the Mayo GAA season gets under way on Saturday with the Mayo u21s taking part in the Hastings Cup for the first time in a number of years. Mayo will be one of 12 teams taking part in the warm up competition for the 2014 u21 championship which will get under way in early spring. Mayo have been drawn in a group with Offaly, Longford, and Cavan, and will open their season on Saturday against Longford in Newtown Forbes at 1pm.

Finally getting over the 20-year-old itch and winning the Moclair Cup looks to have freed this Castlebar Mitchels team from the nagging doubts that many had about their ability to press on and mark themselves out as one of the truly great Mayo club sides. They have another opportunity to kick-on again this Sunday, when they go toe-to-toe with the current AIB All Ireland club champions, St Brigid's in Hyde Park. While bookmakers may have the Roscommon men as 4/7 favourites and Castlebar as 15/8 outsiders, those numbers will been have paid little heed around Páirc Josie Munnelly, as Pat Holmes along with his management team of Alan Nolan and Shane Conway put their players through their paces in preparation for Mitchels first provincial final since 1993. Last Sunday, the Mitchels wrapped up the Mayo double with a comprehensive 2-15 to 1-2 league win over the previous holders of the Moclair Cup, Ballaghaderreen. In 10 league and seven championship games they have gone into battle in this year, Mitchels have only been overturned once, on the opening day in the league, when the side they saw off in the county final (Breaffy) edged past them on a boggy and misty spring day.

National Giving Week (November 11 to 17) is an initiative of the Forum on Philanthropy and Fundraising which is being delivered by Philanthropy Ireland.

A group of students from St Bede's College in south Manchester had their dreams come true when they found out that they had been selected to sing with Pudsey from the BBC's Children in Need Appeal and the famous Mayo tenor Sean Ruane from Foxford.

Local food producers in Mayo have been awarded top honours at this year’s prestigious and hugely-acclaimed Blas na hEireann Irish Food Awards, which were hosted this in Dingle, Co Kerry over the weekend.