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University of Galway’s Rural Studies Centre is to lead a new social organisation for the farming community, called Farmer's Yards, with a pilot initiative at Mountbellew Livestock Mart.

Sometimes if you keep knocking the door will eventually open for you. That proved to be the case for Westport last Sunday, when at the seventh time of asking they claimed the Moclair Cup for the very first time.

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

Come Sunday evening, either a long drought for one of the traditional big beasts of the game or the realisation of a long-held dream for one of the pretenders to the throne will become a reality, when the Moclair Cup is handed over in MacHale Park.

Breaffy will be hoping to make it fourth time lucky when they take to the field in the Mayo GAA Senior Football Championship Final in two weeks time.

Over the past 12 seasons, just four clubs have ended the year with the Moclair Cup in their possession and for nine of those years, it was passed between Castlebar Mitchels and Ballintubber, with Ballaghaderreen winning twice and Charlestown once.

Club football has been back up and running for the past few weeks, but this is the big one that we all have been waiting for.

Mayo make the long trip to Tralee on Sunday as they go looking for their first win in this year's National Hurling League when they take on Kerry.

It wouldn't be Mayo if there wasn't drama involved and 2019 was as drama filled as any of the past number of years, even if the curtain came down on the action on the field six months ago at this stage.

Who wouldn't want more of what they saw in MacHale Park last Saturday night between Castlebar Mitchels and Ballintubber?