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A new drive to develop Mayo as a serious player in the film and television industry is being launched on Monday.

It was not exactly back with a bang, but inter-county football was back last weekend for Mayo when they took on and defeated a hard working Leitrim side. January throws up very little in definite road signs for the direction the summer will take, but there were a few new options in route planning on show that will have given both James Horan and the Mayo supporters something to think about in the coming weeks and months.

European rugby giants Toulouse arrive in Galway today in preparation for Connacht’s biggest competitive fixture at the Galway Sportsground - their pool six Heineken Cup second round clash on Saturday (6pm).

European rugby giants Toulouse arrive in Galway tomorrow in preparation for Connacht’s biggest competitive fixture at the Galway Sportsground - their pool six Heineken Cup second round clash on Saturday (6pm).

GUBU. Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented. That’s how a period of turmoil involving Charlie Haughey was defined in the 1980s. It does not come close to describing events since Christmas.

A mother of three, believed by Gardaí to be “a major player in drug dealing in Athlone” who took up the reins of her husbands’s operation after he got jailed for 10 years in 2007, was given a five year suspended sentence in the Circuit Court this week (December 10) after being convicted of possession with intent to supply nearly €7,000 worth of heroin to customers all over the country.

The bookmakers have it that it will be a clash of north against south for the Moclair cup come next month, and while that may be where the money is going, it would be a foolish man who is counting out the chances of the men from the west ahead of Sunday.

Saturday afternoon promises to be a battle in the west that is not to be missed. Ballintubber, who are going for three in a row, will face off against local rivals Castlebar Mitchels who are still smarting from last year’s final defeat. The two west Mayo clubs breezed through the competition up to the semi-final stage where both Claremorris and St Gerald’s put it up to them, setting up tomorrow’s mouth watering encounter.

Alan Dillion/Trevor Mortimer v Diarmuid Blake

Alan Dillon/Trevor Mortimer v Diarmuid Blake