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A competitive encounter from start to finish boiled down to a tale of two penalties in the opening All Ireland League fixture between Connacht rivals Galwegians and Ballina.

It was always going to be a game where everything had to go right for Mayo, or at least 90 per cent right. On Saturday they fell well short of that.

This one will sting, more so than the other recent defeats in the concrete caldron on Jones Road on the biggest day of all. 

At the end of the Mayo-Dublin All-Ireland semi-final five weeks ago, as the ‘Green and Red of Mayo’ boomed out over the loudspeakers, the chorus reverberated around the ground like a war-cry signalling the end of the most hurtful oppression imaginable at the hands of Dublin for over a decade.

Galway senior camogie team marches on to another All Ireland final having seen off Tipperary at Croke Park on Sunday. by 1-13 to 0-12.

On a day when there was more than a handful of talking points from the game, we take a look at five. 

The classical western contest upped sticks and headed to the big city for one day only and while it may have been played out on fancier turf than the old sod from home, it still had that old familiar feeling from days gone by in the old shed in Tuam Stadium and the memories from MacHale Park.

Lack of action on Emergency Department upgrade ‘shocking and unacceptable’

More than 9,000 people across Galway city and county are still waiting for their theory and driving tests, according to new figures from the Road Safety Authority.

All roads lead north for Mayo on Saturday for their Connacht Senior Football Championship opener against Sligo in Markievicz Park which throws in at 4.30pm.