Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

What’s it like to play in a Galway-Mayo championship match? I can only speak from a Galway point of view and more specifically my experiences of playing against the auld enemy. It’s the only game of the year you just can’t afford to lose, writes John Divilly.

Roscommon 1-7 Mayo 1-11: Mayo played this crucial Division 1 game with a swagger that you usual see from them in the Connacht championship, and against familiar opposition, there was a familiar result.

A postmortem is being carried out today on the body of a 32-year-old man who was found severely injured in the bedroom of the apartment in which his 11-month old son also died.

A farmer, his wife, and several other people, including anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy, are facing jail over alleged interference with a receiver appointed over lands in Co Kildare.

BUNAW PIER-KILMAKILLOGE HARBOUR, BEARA, CO KERRY

An opinion columnist this week described professional negligence as a newspaper column discussing a topic which it can neither explain nor understand. Tony McEntee tries to buck that trend.

It is the picture that tells a thousand words. The relief and anguish is written all over his face as he clutches his tiny son to his chest.

Castlebar Mitchels’ 1-11 Breaffy 0-08

Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane

Seán Lynch celebrates the O’Shea brothers’ craftsmanship.

A galaxy removed from the pomp and splendour of St Paul’s Cathedral, it was business as usual in the gales and rain in unpretentious Dromanassig, Co Kerry, yesterday.

He says not hugely religious but when Andy Moran’s sister came home from a trip to Lourdes last week with a special wristband for him, he couldn’t help but wish she had done it a month earlier.

Everyone else laughs while he smiles politely.

AND so it has come to pass once more. The closer they get to a big game the more optimistic Mayo’s supporters get.

Midfield

KERRY management are hopeful Darran O’Sullivan’s hamstring strain can be successfully treated in advance of the All-Ireland semi-final against Mayo in three weeks time.

WHEN it gets to Croke Park, hunger isn’t an optional extra — it becomes the crucial ingredient that separates teams and makes the difference between progress and a season ending.

A CONNACHT title is far from the limit of Mayo’s ambitions. That’s the determined answer from midfielder Aidan O’Shea when he’s asked if his side are in bonus territory now that they’ve annexed the western crown for the 43rd time.

Mayo 1-12 Galway 1-06

IT’S reckoned to be a 500,000:1 chance — three girls in the same family born on exactly the same date, each two years apart.

SHAME on us as a sporting nation.

TOMMY WALSH left the scene of his latest outstanding performance happy in the knowledge that his beloved Kerins O’Rahillys are on track to win their first ever AIB Munster Club SFC title.