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At least the GAA have done something right for us Mayo fans when combining the Junior All-Ireland final with our Senior quarter-final on August 8. It will be a long sitting in Croke Park however, for Mayo fans with the junior game throwing in at 2pm and the senior game expected to throw in  at 6pm. It is a great opportunity for the juniors and I am glad they are getting a run out on the hallowed turf. It may be a first and last experience for some of them as players so I am sure they will cherish it.

Farmers in Mayo have not received their payments due to them since the back of last year under Agri-Enviro Options Scheme (AEOS), according to Mayo Fine Gael general election candidate, Councillor Michelle Mulherin.

Well apparently it is not as easy as that and so when the minister for social protection Eamon O Cuiv announced this week that there were plans in the pipeline to get people to work for their dole money in the future — well let’s just say it wasn’t greeted with rapturous applause by one and all.

It was all one way traffic as expected as Kilkenny easily negotiated their semi-final passage with a landslide 32-point drubbing of the Dubs at a wet and miserable Nowlan Park last Saturday.

A tensely contested Leinster intermediate final saw Kilmessan overcome Erin’s Own (Castlecomer) in a hard fought final in Nowlan Park last Saturday.

Kilmessan (Meath) 1-7

At this stage I presume that, like myself, you are sick to your teeth of hearing people complaining about the recent Budget. First the pensioners, then the teachers, medical professionals, and more recently the farmers have taken to the streets to highlight how unjust the recent changes brought about by the Budget have been to each of their respective spheres. And that’s before we even mention the dreaded word recapitalisation. Thank God for the All-Blacks was all I could think as our attention was diverted to matters less important, but infinitely more entertaining over the past week.