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Mayo are on the hunt for a new senior hurling manager after Derek Walsh decided to step down as manager following a successful spell in charge of the county.

Not for the first time will the Mayo senior hurlers face off against Kildare in Croke Park for an All Ireland title.

The home dressing room in Adrian Freeman Park in Tooreen, where we sat down with Mayo manager Derek Walsh last Sunday, is somewhere he might not have been that welcome during his playing days, when he was going toe-to-toe with the Blue Devils for Ballyhaunis in the many classics they battled out in the club championship in Mayo.

If the craic and fun that Mayo have a training, that their manager says they have continues this week - you can’t count them out of putting a Christy Ring Cup title alongside the Nickey Rackard Cup they claimed last year.

The Mayo senior hurlers are just 70 minutes away from another Croke Park date in the Christy Ring Cup Final.

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.

The Mayo senior hurlers will be staying in Ballina for their round four clash against Sligo in the Christy Ring Cup tomorrow afternoon.

The Mayo hurlers got themselves right back in contention in the Christy Ring Cup with a six point win over London in Ruislip last weekend.

The Mayo senior hurlers picked up their first win of the season with a big win on the road in the Garden County - seeing off Wicklow by ten points and hitting 26 points of their own on the way to a 0-26 to 2-10 victory.

In 1912, WP Higgins, working from his base in Athenry, went to Cork city to meet Henry Ford to ask him for the Ford dealership. It marked the start of a great business partnership between a business legend and Higgins' Garage.