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Just walking down the streets of Castlebar over the past few weeks, you can tell something special is going on. The red and yellow of Castlebar Mitchels is hanging out of flag poles and decorating windows all over the town.

This coming Sunday footballers from Castlebar Mitchels will be opening their eyes and realising they may be just hours away from being All Ireland champions.

The kingdom will come calling on Saturday afternoon, but Castlebar Mitchels will be the ones looking to claim the crown come the full-time whistle being blown

An elderly lady once told me that “Apart from the Irish language, we have nothing more Irish in this country than the game of hurling.” I agree. It is the greatest game of them all. It is probably the number one game in the county, attendances at senior county finals being a very good criterion — the hurling final has always been the bigger attraction than the football counterpart, “even in the balmy days of our football three-in-a-row,” according to the late Jack Mahon.