Somewhere from the precipice consisting of Kerry, Dublin, Galway and Tyrone Mayo must hack a further two points to be safe, an immense task for a team in transition
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In ordinary circumstances you would expect Mayo to comfortably account for Westmeath on Sunday. But you can’t be sure which Mayo will turn up in Charlestown.
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For what seems time immemorial St Jarlath’s has been the dominant football college in Connacht. But Sunday’s final between two Mayo colleges signals a wind of change.
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Having lost their opening games, the result of next Saturday’s league match is vital for both Mayo and Donegal. To lose a further foothold will imperil divisional security.
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Mayo’s failure to clear the first home hurdle of the Allianz League has already put their Division One survival hopes spinning into disarray, according to our top columnist.
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When there is nothing left but the weather to talk about, spare us Celtic Park. The memory of that gauzy Saturday night in Derry last February still shivers the soul.
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You would want to be there to understand the conditions that Mayo and Roscommon footballers were forced to endure in their FBD league tie at Ballyhaunis on Sunday.
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John O’Mahony is no advocate of the FBD League. He is critical of the number of players unavailable for selection because they are competing with third level colleges.
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It was the year’s opener, a first outing, a getting-to-know-you selection and, therefore, a skeletal Mayo. But for selectors it was scarcely informative. NUIG dominated the game.
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SEAN RICE The candle burns low for this old fossil, but the flame is as bright as ever. No year starts without hope even if no year for close on 60 has realised it. The growing pile of disappointments continues to overshadow our history — but not our pride.
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Ninety-four-year-old Tom McNicholas, the last surviving member of Mayo’s All-Ireland-winning panel of 1936, takes a stroll down memory lane with Seán Rice.
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