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The race to follow in the footsteps of last year's winners Islandeady will step up a few gears this weekend when the quarter-finals of the TF Royal Hotel and Theatre Mayo GAA Junior Football Championships get down to business.

There is no room for sentimentality when it comes to winning finals. Cill Chomáin headed into last Sunday's final as warm favourites, they had lost narrowly last year and looked to be set up to get redemption this time around.

Last year's beaten finalists in the junior championship Cill Chomain kept up their winning start to this year's campaign with a big 8-13 to 0-3 win over Moygownagh last weekend, with Justin Healy (2), David Walker, Eoghan McGrath (2), Martin Geraghty and Joe Corduff all finding the net in their win for Paul McGarry's side.

The battle to see who will follow in the footsteps of Kilmeena and become the Mayo Junior Football Championship winners, begins in earnest this weekend.

Calling the eventual winners of the Mayo GAA Intermediate Football Championship is a fool's errand most years and this year is no different.

It's another busy weekend of Gaelic football action this weekend with the semi-finals and relegation pairings across a number of divisions down for decision.

Junior football doesn't get the headlines that the senior or intermediate grades do during the year, but there are always one or two sides at the level that you can see are ready to take that step up.

Battle hardened and full-of-heart underdogs on November weekends can take the most fancied of favourites out at the knees on the biggest of occasions - something that Kilmeena knew only too well as they made the journey north to Crossmolina last Saturday.

Kevin Lynch stood on a platform six inches off the ground to raise the Sweeney Cup high in the air in Fr O’Hara Park on Saturday afternoon - but Mayo Gaels are standing many feet taller right now than they were this morning, following their 1-11 to 1-9 win over Ballyhaunis.

Sunday was another hectic day on the football fields across the county, with spots in the senior, intermedaite, junior and junior B championships up for grabs - along with a intermediate championship relegation final.