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Cork 1-17     Mayo 0-12

Kilkenny 3-6

All Ireland final day looms again and we’ll make the long trip to Dublin in hope of seeing a Mayo team climb the steps of the Hogan Stand to lift the Tom Markham Cup this time. Hopefully it’ll be Sam next year. It’s been a long road for the Mayo minors to get to where they are and the Mayo faithful are hopeful that they will bring home the victory.

A decade on and the passion for the game burns as bright as ever in Corofin. It is hard to fathom that it is 10 and a half years since Ray Silke climbed the Hogan Stand steps breathing life back into Galway football as Corofin were crowned All Ireland club kings on a nippy St Patrick’s afternoon in Drumcondra.

Meath 2-15

The focus on Sunday will be on the team and Ray Dempsey and whatever changes he makes, but behind the Knockmore man there are three other men who might not be the focus of attention, but have played as important a role in Mayo’s progress to the All Ireland final as anyone. Stephen Healy, Tomás O’Grady, and Kevin Beirne are all vital cogs in the Mayo brains trust that has mapped out Mayo’s route to a second All Ireland minor final in a row, and it is all about getting over that final inch this time and bringing home the first All Ireland minor title since 1985, according to Healy.

In the first instalment of the story of the Emergency in County Kilkenny (our last mega recession!), we joined Callan teenagers Sean Holden and Seamus O’Brien in Croke Park, awaiting the commencement of the famous September 1939 All-Ireland final between Kilkenny and Cork. As the whistle blew and the ball was thrown in, Sean looked up nervously.

GAA chiefs are to lodge an official complaint against Croke Park and the GAA following the pitch invasion fiasco on All-Ireland Sunday in Croke Park.

Turning point

This Sunday, November 22 will mark approximately 89 years since the events of Bloody Sunday, a day when events outside of the GAA brought politics into the heart of the association.