Wednesday, 10 August 2011 13:15
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mayo_flagVISITORS to Mayo might not be aware that the county is 70 minutes away from an All-Ireland final appearance.
It is time now to get out the flags and the bunting and business people in particular should adorn their premises with the green and red of Mayo and add to the atmosphere as we prepare to take on the mighty Kingdom on Sunday, August 21, in the All-Ireland football semi-final.
In a few weeks time we will be bombarded with the Premiership Soccer Saturday, and also highlights on Sunday and Monday nights. By Christmas, some of us will be sick to the teeth of it given the huge amount of time devoted to soccer on television in general in both Ireland and Great Britain.
It's not often I venture across the dividing line between my preferred choice, Gaelic football, and what my colleague, Padraig Burns, refers to as 'the beautiful game,' but I feel compelled to take up the quill and get some vitriol out of my system.
Mayo GAA county secretary Sean Feeney and the chairman of the Mayo strategic action plan, Liam Horan, were involved in some heated exchanges at a county board meeting. It was the third such meeting at which the contentious Mayo Strategic Plan, drawn up by Liam Horan and
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