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Mayo stirs Roscommon blood but All-Ireland series is where it's at for Hussey

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'There’s always good banter around the town when you have a victory or a loss but something you have to learn to take.'

Roscommon shares a border with seven counties, so some rivalries are more tribal than others depending on where you come from.

“Big-time, yeah,” he says. “So I would have went to school in Ballyhaunis and I’d know many Mayo fans and whatnot and yeah, I definitely think I’d be at the coalface, as they say.“Our club is uniquely positioned, right on the border from Galway, Mayo and Roscommon and even I’d have clubmates from Cloonfad who would have went to school in Dunmore and they would feel that Galway would be their biggest rivals and we’re only a stone’s throw away from each other.

With Mayo coming to Dr Hyde Park for a Connacht semi-final on Sunday there’ll be plenty of banter this week and next, whatever the outcome, but Hussey says that there’s a bigger picture to the season with the All-Ireland group stage looming.

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