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After sporadic fighting in Galway during the summer of 1922, and the occupation of some buildings in the town, including the old RIC barracks in Eglington Street, and the former Connaught Ranger barracks at Renmore, the anti-Treaty forces withdrew into Connermara, and into the east Galway countryside.

The Mayo hurling championships will get going this weekend with the senior championship kicking things off this evening when the defending county and provincial champions Tooreen head to Castlebar to take on the Mitchels men at 7.30pm.

Not for the first time will the Mayo senior hurlers face off against Kildare in Croke Park for an All Ireland title.

Mayo will be looking to make it two out of three in as many years in finals in Croke Park on Saturday, when they take on Kildare in the Christy Ring Cup final.

The sun was starting to take its first steps downwards last Sunday evening when Keith Higgins swung into the car park in Adrian Freeman Park in Tooreen.

Shane Boland played the captains role in leading Mayo to the Christy Ring Cup final after a hard fought 2-23 to 2-18 win over Derry in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park on Saturday.

Mayo have shown plenty of resolve in the Christy Ring Cup this season - getting well beat by Kildare in round one, after a poor league showing the season looked like it could have been slipping through their fingers and a route straight back to the Nickey Rackard Cup could have been a very real possibility.

Training officially came to an end almost 40 minutes beforehand, but the sound of leather on ash continued to ricochet around Adrian Freeman Memorial Park, well after time had been called last Saturday afternoon.