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The Connacht Council decision to bring our provincial football showpiece to the hallowed turf of Croke Park has been met with very different views and opinions.

Galway face Mayo this Sunday afternoon in a Connacht final with extra significance. Not only is it a continuation of the old-school straight knock out championship, but, to accommodate the expected large crowds, the game has been moved to Croke Park.

“I LOOKED at you lately with a smile in your eyes, well it doesn’t get better than, better than this” - the opening line of the new single from Tracy Bruen.

By early 1921 Britain’s war in Ireland was not just a moral issue, but a financial one. The sheer expense of solving 'The Irish Question', considering financial reparation for the loss of civilian life and destruction of private property, along with the price tag of the Crown Forces’ operations in Ireland, was staggering.

Galway have only themselves to blame for their one-point defeat to rivals Mayo in Sunday’s Connacht Final, according to manager Padraig Joyce, who said that his team were heartbroken, but were just not clinical enough when it mattered.

It'll be 231 days, or if you prefer seven months and 17 days, or even 33 weeks if that is your favoured method of counting time, come Sunday, from the last time the Mayo senior footballers played a competitive game - to when they get back into action against Galway in Tuam Stadium.

Where were we when we left off?

In a first, this season's Claregalway Hotel Galway Senior Football Championship will kick off with hugely anticipated meeting of Corofin and Oughterard - the first time the country's senior All Ireland champions have played their intermediate counterparts.

This was a period of football success in Galway, contesting three All Ireland finals in four seasons. Meath, too, were confident - this their third All Ireland final in six years, and having beaten Cork in 1999 when they won their ninth title. However, John O'Mahony's Tribesmen prevailed to claim their 13th crown. Interestingly neither county has contested an All Ireland football final since with Kerry and Dublin dominating.

Without doubt, we are living through one of the biggest stories the world has ever seen. We are living through a time that will command chapters when the history books are rewritten.