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It's Christmas week for football fans this weekend with the start of the Mayo GAA Senior Football Championship.

Tooreen eased to victory in the opening round of the Mayo Senior Hurling Championship with a comprehensive win over Castlebar Mitchels last Friday night.

Shane Boland played the captains role in leading Mayo to the Christy Ring Cup final after a hard fought 2-23 to 2-18 win over Derry in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park on Saturday.

Mayo have shown plenty of resolve in the Christy Ring Cup this season - getting well beat by Kildare in round one, after a poor league showing the season looked like it could have been slipping through their fingers and a route straight back to the Nickey Rackard Cup could have been a very real possibility.

A top class second half display in the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence in Bekan saw Tooreen claim their third Connacht Intermediate Hurling Championship title in five seasons.

Fresh from reclaiming the TJ Tyrell Cup a fortnight ago from Ballyhaunis, Tooreen will be making the trip to Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon to start another championship odyssey when they get their Connacht Intermediate Hurling Championship campaign under way. the game throws in at 1.30pm.

With one win under their belts already the Mayo senior hurlers will be looking to make it two from two, when they take on Roscommon in Hyde Park tomorrow afternoon.

It was a case of gone in sixty seconds for the Mayo hurlers in Croke Park on Sunday, having battled back to edge their noses back in front through a Shane Boland pointed free with five minutes of normal time left Mayo were left crushed when Donegal struck back with two goals inside of a minute to claim the Rackard crown.