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The week before the All Ireland minor final, the Mayo Advertiser had an opportunity to sit down with Mayo manager Ray Dempsey to see how the Knockmore man felt about the impending All Ireland final, how his side have performed this year, and getting the best of his players in the biggest 60 minutes of their lives so far.

The people of Mayo are not getting the message when it comes to drink driving, according to local gardaí. Detections for drink driving have increased dramatically this week leaving gardaí to ponder are their messages and warnings falling on deaf ears.

“It’s not ideal but that’s the nature of junior soccer,” said Mayo manager Declan Kilkelly of his side’s preparation for tomorrow’s quarter final of the Oscar Traynor Cup. Mayo only got back to group training this week after their win over the Galway League in the last round of the group stages of the competition in December, due to the Christmas break and FAI Junior Cup action. Tomorrow they will make the trip to Dublin to take on the United Churches League in the quarter final of the premier tournament for county sides in junior soccer looking to book a place in the final four of the competition.

Mayo has been allocated €11.7 million under the National Roads Programme 2009 but there has been anger expressed at what was dubbed “the crumbs off the table”.

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The rapid fire nature of the u21 championship means it’s all over from start to finish in little under two months. So there is no rest for Mayo this weekend, who seven days on from their nail biting win over Galway last Saturday in Charlestown will host Roscommon in the same venue tomorrow. The 2-6 to 0-11 win over Galway last weekend was a lot closer on the scoreboard than in it was in general play on the field, an issue Mayo manager Pat Holmes hopes will be rectified this weekend. “We were delighted to get over last weekend, it was a tough battle at the end, which we knew it would be but we came out on top. We are going to have to be even better this Saturday as this Roscommon side won the All Ireland minor title three years ago and will be a tough task on the field.” Mayo’s lack of proficiency in front of the posts against Galway is something that needs to be rectified before Roscommon cross over the border, and Holmes has faith that his side will be able to do it. “We have to take our chances against Roscommon, because we won’t get as many against them as we did against Galway. The frees didn’t go as well as we would have liked last weekend, and we have to up our accuracy on that if we are going to make the Connacht final.”

For the 10th year in a row, Mayo will contest the Connacht u-21 football final. In the past nine years the JJ Fahy Cup has been presented to a Mayo captain on six occasions and Mayo captain Tom Parsons will be hoping that he becomes the seventh man in a decade to lift the trophy. Mayo have won the competition 22 times already while their opponents on Sunday have yet to claim the title.

Workers in the Shaws department stores in Castlebar and Ballina, as well as in 14 other Shaws stores nationwide, are to be balloted for industrial action by their union Mandate. The retail outlet has 16 stores throughout the country, including the two in Mayo, employing more than 1,000 staff. 

After watching his side ship a heavy defeat in the league final, the last thing Mayo manager Kevin Reidy would have had to want to do was to pick over the bones of the game to the waiting press pack. But with the Cork celebrations going on in the background, the Tuam native was open and honest with his assessment of the sixty minutes of football that had transpired. “I'm very disappointed with our performance today more than anything else. We never really got out of the blocks at all. We're along way off Cork at the minute, but I still think that even with the score-line today we didn't do ourselves justice. We had a couple of goal chances and we didn't preform. Cork are a fine team not taking anything away from them at all, but we didn't preform. There still up there to be knocked, but were going to have to go away and lick our wounds and come back.”