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It was not exactly back with a bang, but inter-county football was back last weekend for Mayo when they took on and defeated a hard working Leitrim side. January throws up very little in definite road signs for the direction the summer will take, but there were a few new options in route planning on show that will have given both James Horan and the Mayo supporters something to think about in the coming weeks and months.

Galway football selector Alan Flynn has been heavily involved at the coalface of senior club football in the county over the past few years, guiding his club Tuam Stars to this year’s county final, and also with Caherlistrane.

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The Galway senior footballers and their new management team of Alan Mulholland, Donal Ó Flatharta and Alan Flynn start out this week on the 2012 season with two games in the FBD league.

Round two of the FBD league between Galway and NUIG is fixed for Tuam at 2pm this Sunday.

The Mayo squad for the FBD league and the NFL will also see some new faces.

Five players were let go from the Mayo senior football panel this week, but Mayo manager James Horan was keen to stress that the door is still open for all who were let go. “We let some of the lads go this week, five in total,” he said. “They were Tom Parsons, Aidan Kilcoyne, Mark Ronaldson, Barry Moran, and Brian Benson. We’re aiming to have a solid 30-man panel but it is by no means closed off. There are six rounds of club games before we play London and we’ll be at all those games and we’ll be watching all the guys and they can come back into consideration.” Horan also confirmed that both Donal Vaughan and Trevor Howley, neither of whom has featured yet this year as they work their way back from injury, will continue to be involved with the panel.

NUI Galway men’s basketball and senior rowing teams have jointly won the college’s team of the year award for 2011.

This evening’s meeting of Mayo and NUIG in McHale Park in the home final of the FBD League will bring together two of the men who put their name in the hat for the Mayo manager’s job last year. James Horan was the choice at the end of the search to fill the spot left vacant by John O’Mahony, but John Maughan who is now over the students was right in the running until he decided to withdraw from the race not long before the finish.