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Two Supermac’s outlets in Mayo were the recipients of Supermac’s All Stars Awards at an event in the Loughrea Hotel and Spa this week. Supermac’s in Castlebar won the Quality Award - Franchised, and Supermac’s in Ballinrobe won the coveted Papa John’s Pizza of the Year - Franchised

Three sport stars will be honoured in Westport at a Civic Reception to be held on Friday February 1.

The club will host a special presentation night on Saturday December 1 in The Merry Monk, Ballina, at 7pm.

A flurry of anticipation awaits the upcoming rivalry between the neighbouring counties of Galway and Mayo in a GAA All Star Tug of War which is being held in Danaghers Hotel, Cong.

Under the new GAA GPA Awards scheme, sponsored by Opel, Michael Fennelly was named the GAA GPA Player of the month for August and Tommy Walsh was named GAA GPA Player of the month for September. The players were chosen by a players committee of the GPA.

While they may not have gotten their five in a row on All-Ireland Sunday, the Cats added their five to the 2010 GAA All-star team.

Henry Shefflin, who is nominated for a ninth successive time, will be hoping to surpass the record jointly held by his fellow county-man DJ Carey and Kerry football legend Pat Spillane, whom he joined on nine awards last year. The seven-time All-Ireland senior hurling medal winner is one of 11 Kilkenny players nominated for awards this year, just one fewer than last year’s 12 nominees. Shefflin’s Kilkenny team-mate Tommy Walsh, who has seven awards to his name, received his eighth successive nomination.

Mayo GAA clubs are invited to take on GAA stars Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and Alan Brogan in the Suremen Challenge this August. The Suremen Challenge tests club players’ GAA football and hurling skills and accuracy using the specially created Suremen Challenge Accuracy Screen – a large screen that features holes of varying sizes for precision scoring.

Kilkenny the three in a row hurling team dominate this year's Vodafone GAA All Stars list, with a total 14 nominations.

The Cats dominated and cleaned up in the Vodafone GAA All-Stars last month and now it looks like the honours will also go their way in this year’s Gaelic Player Awards.