The eight quarter-finalists in this year’s Mayo senior club football championship were confirmed over the weekend with a lively looking Ballina Stephenites issuing a statement of intent.

WHILE Mayo manager James Horan spent yesterday sweating over the fitness of his players, the Mayo club championship threw up a couple of big surprises.

MAYO GAA chiefs will announce their new senior football boss after a county board meeting in McHale Park, Castlebar tonight.

BRYAN SHEEHAN, the favourite to captain All-Ireland champions Kerry next season, admits a return to the Kingdom’s starting 15 is his ‘number one priority’ for next season.