It is set to be a big month for the Mayo LGFA inter-county teams, with a number of high-profile fixtures over the coming weeks. It starts this Saturday, when the U14s play Kildare in the Platinum All-Ireland Quarter-Final.

Details for Mayo's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship contest against Cavan have been confirmed. DATE Sunday, May 18. TIME 2. 30pm. VENUE Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, Castlebar.

Two Mayo GAA players were included in the latest GAA Football Team of the Week.

Four-in-a-row doesn’t quite have the same ring as five-in-a-row but it is consequential nonetheless, especially in Connacht where just seven teams had accomplished it up to last Sunday.

A strange old game, typical and untypical Mayo on show, a team not fully the sum of all its whole constituent parts. Not quite Aristotle but I hope you get my drift. There was a backdrop of technicolour splashing around Castlebar.

As the clock ticked past the hour mark in Castlebar last Sunday afternoon, Mayo had finally clawed their way back within touching distance, the whiff of a famous Mayo comeback beginning to waft across the MacHale Park pitch.

What a kick in the teeth. It was a breathless, absorbing encounter but a huge opportunity missed for Mayo. Midway through the second-half of Sunday’s Connacht final, it looked for all the world like there was only going to be one winner.

Connacht SFC Final Galway 1-17 Mayo 1-15 Anthony Hennigan at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, Castlebar (Att: 27,137) An epic contest eventually fell the way of Galway who won a fourth straight Connacht SFC title with victory over Mayo at sunny ...

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