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The group stages in this year's Mayo club football Championships were concluded last weekend while this coming weekend sees the quarter-finals played out in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Championships.

With no inter-county action this summer due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the club championships within the county are generating more interest than usual

Billy Joe Padden's interviewing skills have been a major feature here on the Mayo News football podcast in recent months and in this episode he's back with another special guest

The GAA world is inching ever closer to a return to play, As the long wait continues, however, this leaves time for more considered debate and so in this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we're back with another one-on-one discussion

The gradual reopening of the country in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic moved a step forward on Monday, with an easing of a number of restrictions that were in place since March.

This week sees the culmination of the Top 100 Club Footballers series in the Mayo News. Over the past few weeks the top 20 Junior footballers and the top 30 Intermediate players have been unveiled, along with the first tranche of Senior players to make the cut.

With this extended break from live sporting action showing no sign of coming to an end any time soon, it's an ongoing challenge to fill the sports pages

With the May Day Bank Holiday now behind us, we should all be gearing up for the start of another summer of Championship action

As the Covid-19 pandemic rumbles on, the realisation is now dawning on everyone that we'll be living with this new normal for quite a while.

The Covid-19 pandemic remains a central feature in all of our lives right now, pushing so many other things - sport included - to the margins. In this so strangely altered world, the Mayo News football podcast has been pushed out of its comfort zone too but we haven't been pushed completely off the agenda either.

The rapidly spreading Covid-19 coronavirus has, with astonishing speed, upended much of what had hitherto passed for normal life right around the globe

Pearse Stadium in Salthill is the venue for Sunday's high-stakes National Football League Division One clash between table-topping Galway and relegation-threatened Mayo