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It might not have had the drama and frustration of how things ended last year in Limerick, but at the end of the day the result was the same and Mayo were bound for home on Sunday evening, with plenty of questions and plenty of regrets in the boot. In the past 12 months, Mayo have played in four All Ireland semi-finals (including replays both years) and not got over the line and back to the All Ireland final. Plenty time will be spent over the winter months picking over where it went wrong again and what could have been done. At the end of the day, the better team won. Dublin should have killed us off the first day when they were seven points up, but they made no mistake last Sunday when we were unable to hold onto a four point lead with the game entering the final straight.

A Kiltoom man is to take part in the adventure of a lifetime by driving an ambulance 16,000 kms (10,000 miles) from London to Mongolia next month before leaving it with a local charity.

Some 300 teams from around the world will this month start their journey to Mongolia for the 2009 Mongol Rally whose fundraising goes towards the Christina Nobel Children’s Charity for a sanctuary for homeless and abandoned children.

Ballyfoyle man Frank Manning, the ‘Van Man’, is undertaking one of the most novel fundraisers yet for the Susie Long Hospice Fund. Frank and his friend, Mayo man Martin Sweeney, are driving their nine year old Ford Fiesta from Kilkenny to Mongolia as part of the Mongol Rally 2009.