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Mayo know exactly what they have to do this Sunday when they make the trek to Letterkenny for their final league game of the season. The permutations are simple for Mayo win or draw and they are safe in the top flight for another season, but a loss to the Ulster side and they will be plying their trade in Division Two next year.

The Mayo senior hurlers go in search of their first win of the new season this weekend when they make the trip to Celtic Park in Derry on Sunday to take on the Oak Leaf county in round three of the National Hurling League, Division 2B.

All roads lead towards Markievicz Park on Sunday for Mayo - as they start their return to life in Division One of the National Football League with a home game against Donegal in the neutral venue in Sligo.

Armagh qualified for their first TG4 All-Ireland Senior Semi-Final since 2015 with two Aimee Mackin goals and one each from Kelly Mallon and Catherine Marley denying Mayo a return to the knock-out stages.

There might not be a Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal in reality, but Mayo at least left Ballybofey breaking even thanks to a late deflected James Durcan goal. The Castlebar Mitchels man knew he had to gamble it all on one play at the death and it paid off handsomely for Mayo when all was said and done.

Game two of the 2018/19 Guinness PRO14 season, and already the pressure is on Connacht to deliver a winning result when former coach Michael Bradley returns with his improving Zebre outfit on Saturday (5.15pm).

St Patrick’s College, Lacken Cross, made up for last season’s bitter disappointment by defeating newcomers Ard Scoil Chiaráin Naofa of Clara in a pulsating tie in the AUL Complex on Wednesday afternoon.

The Connacht Property Auction held its first public auction of 2018 on Tuesday last week in the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway. Of the 15 properties on offer, 14 were successfully sold, giving an impressive 93 per cent success rate for the first event of the year. After a successful run of auctions in 2017, the auction team were expected to start 2018 off in a similar manner, and they did not disappoint with continued interest on the majority of lots that were offered.

After the massive and historic high of winning the All-Ireland senior hurling title last September for the first time in 29 years – it is back to brass tacks for Micheal Donoghue and his squad this Sunday when they entertain Antrim at Pearse Stadium (1pm) in the first round of the league.

Seasonal cheer hits the Sportsground this week ahead of the first of the festive interprovincial fixtures with Ulster on Saturday (7.35pm).