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Delays in connecting Shrule to the Galway water supply continue, with fears that it could take up to a year for the connection to be made.

Mayo 1-13

There was good news this week for the long-running Shrule water saga with the announcement that the supply is to be connected by the end of October.

Mayo 1-11

Gerry Cahill was born in Caherlistrane and started playing music from the age of eight..... first the melodeon, then the double row accordion, and later the piano accordion. He was a great admirer of musicians like Will Starr and Jimmy Shand. He soon developed a distinctive style of his own and he was very much in demand at house dances and roadside dances, which were very common at the time.

This modern detached home, now on offer at a reduced asking price, certainly has a lot to offer. The kitchen features beautiful oak Shaker style fitted units with fully integrated appliances, finished off with an attractive black granite worktop. Oak flooring is provided virtually throughout. The en suite master bedroom comes with a walk-in wardrobe. The house also offers genuine potential as there is a further c930 square feet of space in the attic which is ready for conversion with Velux windows and access by a full concrete stairs already supplied. Outside there are lawns and timber decking, and a driveway with slip form kerbing.

I paid a visit to Anthony Finnerty’s hostelry in lower Salthill before the game last Sunday. There was a great buzz about the place with plenty of Mayo supporters popping in for the crack and banter before the short hop over to Pearse Stadium. One of the first people I met on arrival was PJ Kelly from Moygownagh. He is a great passionate football man and was eagerly seeking everyone’s opinion as to who they thought would win the game. “Would we win it? Are we good enough to win it”? I got the impression that PJ was happy with the answers coming from the gathering and would have left for the stadium pretty confident that Mayo would win their first provincial title since 1967 at the city venue. If I am to be perfectly honest here I have to admit that I found it very difficult to predict the outcome in advance of Sunday’s game. I know from experience that Galway v Mayo encounters take on a life of their own and the form book goes out the window when these two sides meet. Irrespective of form coming into a championship encounter, there is rarely more than a point or two separating these two great rivals. Galway looked so ordinary against Sligo a few weeks ago that punters could have been forgiven for believing that this would be a relatively ‘handy’ match for the Mayo boys. Mayo, on the other hand, looking hugely impressive when carrying out a demolition job on Roscommon in the semi-final. I suggested, prior to the game, that our poor run of results in Pearse Stadium in recent decades would be a factor. Because of that I felt we would have to be five or six points a better team than Galway to beat them in a venue where we hadn’t won a provincial championship since 1967.

With the senior inter-county season put to bed for another year, things will return to normal on the club scene. And this weekend sees no time being wasted in Mayo with the final rounds of club games in the senior and intermediate football championships down for decision. In the premier competition only two teams have already booked their place in the last eight, both Shrule-Glencorrib and Ballaghaderreen have emerged from section three of the competition, with both sides picking up wins over luckless Breaffy and Burrishoole in their opening two games. The sides will meet again this weekend to sort out who takes top spot in the group and with that the perceived easier draw in the chase for a last eight spot. Shrule-Glencorrib have made up for the disappointment of missing out on the last eight in the last two years to book their place early, but this evening’s game could see them ship a defeat to the current county champions. With Andy Moran and Barry Regan in spectacular form for their side, the east Mayo men’s perceived greater fire power should be enough to see them over the south Mayo men. That said, any side that counts Conor and Trevor Mortimer, Mark Ronaldson, and Kieran Conroy in their starting 15 are not going to be a pushover. In the other game in this group Breaffy will host Burrishoole on Sunday afternoon for the chance to end their championship season on Martin Murphy’s full time whistle. Both sides have lost their first two games in the championship, with the losers on Sunday facing a relegation play-off to ensure their senior status. Things have gone to pieces for Breaffy this year, but they should have enough fight in them to hold off the challenge from the McGovern Park side and ensure their status and regroup for next year.

There was a palpable sense of excitement in the Royal Theatre on Wednesday night as delegates, managers, and interested parties gathered to see the draw for the 2009 Royal Theatre Mayo football championships. And when the dust had settled there was plenty to talk about on the journey home to the four corners of Mayo. As always the senior championship draw was the highlight of the night as the 16 teams who went into the draw waited to find out what obstacles they were going to overcome in the group stages of the competition. The four semi-finalists were drawn out first (one in each group) and those who fell at the quarter final next, with the final eight the last to come out. The process of the draw meant that one group would include a semi-finalist, a quarter-finalist, and the ominous figure of Ballina among the quartet. That group when drawn drew gasps from those in attendance as Group B pitted Crossmolina, Knockmore, Ballina, and Ballinrobe in one of two groups of death that were pulled out of the hat.

John O'Mahony reveled his starting 15 for Mayo's crunch tie with Tyrone in McHale Park on Sunday. For the second game in a row Shrule-Glencorrib sharpshooter Conor Mortimer has been left out of the side, following on from his omission from side who started against Galway in the last round of the competition. Aidan O'Shea will continue in his role at full forward, the Breaffy teenager and Knockmore's Kevin McLoughlin are the only u21 players in the starting 15. The starting 15 also see's Billy Joe Padden come into the side at top of the left in the place of Mikey Sweeney, while McLoughlin will replace Kieran Conroy at left corner back.