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When someone who has played a significant role in your life dies, it naturally heralds a time for some reflection and their death also holds a mirror up to our own mortality.

For the past year, Advertiser editor Declan Varley was penning a new book charting the personal journey of a lifetime of following his native Mayo. Through disappointments, joy, illness and tragedy, his seminal work is a must-read not just for Mayo fans, but all readers. The following is an extract from the book, outlining how he took upon himself to chart a century of being embroiled in one of the last great sporting odysseys — the hunt to bring Sam back to Mayo.

Mayo picked up their first win over Dublin in the league in a decade and first in the capital in since the 1970s with a comprehensive victory over their old foes on Saturday night.

Last Sunday evening around teatime, a shrill blast of a whistle blew around a small patch of Dublin’s northside. In the seconds that followed, a horde of maroon-clad athletes let the realisation hit them that they had just won a second All-Ireland camogie title for Galway in the space of three years. It might have been a third but for the onset of the pandemic, but there is time ahead for that one.

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The great Hollmount-Carramore All Ireland adventure came to an end in Croke Park on Saturday night, where the south Mayo men came up just short against an impressive St Mary’s, Cahersiveen side in the All Ireland final.