COROFIN, denied a first ever three-in-a-row of Galway SFC titles last year, advanced to the semi-finals of this year’s title race with a replay win over neighbours Claregalway at Tuam Stadium on Saturday evening.

FAVOURITES Salthill/Knocknacarra qualified for the semi-finals after a four-goal blitz of Moycullen at Pearse Stadium yesterday.

ALAN DILLON has called for root and branch reform of Mayo football following their humiliating exit from the All-Ireland championship on Saturday.

WHEN analysing Mayo football, many seek refuge in non-specific language. Croke Park hoodoo! Something missing! The great enigma! Still they dream!

JASON SHERLOCK refused to be drawn on his inter-county future yesterday, but he will meet with Pat Gilroy in April to decide if he will give another summer to the Dublin footballers.

THREE club players in Galway accused of assaulting a referee will have to serve bans of almost a year after GAA bosses in Croke Park threw out a 12-week suspension imposed locally.

ALL WEEK we heard “this is a different Mayo team”. Indeed, many conversations even stretched to how Mayo would cope with another clash with Kerry after being mangled by them in the 2004 and 2006 All-Ireland finals.

Galway 1-14 Mayo 2-12

DESPITE receiving a broken cheekbone in a club game 11 days ago,Ronan McGarrity has been named on the Mayo team for Sunday’s Connacht SFC final against Galway in Pearse Stadium.

Mayo 3-18 Roscommon 0-07

FORMER All-Ireland winning defender Mike McCarthy is set end his inter-county retirement and rejoin the Kerry squad.

UNDER-21 star Cormac Bane will be available for selection when Galway manager Liam Sammon names his side tonight to meet Kerry in the Allianz NFL at Austin Stack Park, Tralee on Sunday.

CONNACHT SFC FINAL: GALWAY 2-12 MAYO 1-14

Mayo manager John O’Mahony has included David Heaney and Conor Mortimer in his side to face Sligo in Sunday's Connacht semi-final.

Former All-Star Ciaran McDonald has been omitted from the Mayo senior football panel for the forthcoming championship, which was released tonight.

Some of Mayo's less-known footballers will have a chance to impress manager John O'Mahony when the county's FBD Connacht League campaign begins against NUI Galway on Sunday.

Derry have enhanced their giant-killing reputation with a battling win over Mayo at Celtic Park.

Midfielder Pat Harte is straight back into the Mayo team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC qualifier clash with Derry after serving a suspension (Celtic Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

Mayo have made four team changes for their National Football League semi-final against Galway this weekend.

Mayo have made two team changes for this Sunday's meeting with Cork in the National Football League.

John O'Mahony has made his first team announcement since his appointment as Mayo manager.

Connacht 2-11 Leinster 2-14, Canton

Connacht manager John O'Mahony will wait until before the throw-in of tonight's M Donnelly Interprovincial championship semi-final against Munster before confirming his starting side (Ballyforan, throw-in 8pm).

HE HAS become oh-so-predictable, hasn’t he? Since turning up at the edge of the square for Kerry in the All-Ireland qualifier against Longford, Kieran Donaghy has done the devil, caused consternation in every defence he has met, the veritable fox — a giant fox — in a hen house.

REVENGE will be very far from the minds of the Mayo footballers when they face Kerry in the Bank of Ireland SFC final on September 17.

Mayo 1-16 Dublin 2-12

Mayo 0-15 Laois 0-15

Kevin O'Neill and Aidan Higgins have been drafted into the Mayo team for Sunday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Laois (Croke Park, throw-in 2pm).

Mayo's David Brady is fighting to be fit for his county's All-Ireland quarter-final clash with Laois in Croke Park next weekend.

Six Mayo players picked up injuries in club games last weekend - a statistic which is sure to add to the recent tension between Mickey Moran and the Mayo County Board.

Midfielder Ronan McGarrity and forward Billy Joe Padden are back in the Mayo team for Sunday's Connacht SFC semi-final against Leitrim (Carrick-on-Shannon, throw-in 3.30pm).

Ballina Stephenites clubman David Brady looks set to sit out the remainder of Mayo's Connacht SFC campaign after breaking a metatarsal bone in his foot.

Mayo manager Mickey Moran has dubbed it "a potential banana skin" but the westerners' Connacht SFC quarter-final trip to London this weekend has afforded them licence to experiment.

A STRING of top inter-county GAA players have answered their county’s call in a new Club Energise TV advertisement. The ad, entitled The Call, was revealed for the first time at a press briefing in Dublin yesterday.

Mayo 1-6 Galway 1-11

OFFALY have made three changes from the side that lost to Tyrone last time out for tomorrow night’s Allianz NFL clash with Kerry at Austin Stack Park, Tralee.

Crossmolina forward Ciaran McDonald has returned to training with the Mayo senior footballers.

Mayo manager Mickey Moran has made two changes to his side ahead of Sunday's NFL Division 1A visit of Fermanagh to Castlebar (throw-in 2.30pm).

Mayo bounced back from losing last week’s FBD League final to chalk up their third NFL win in Clontibret.

Mayo are likely to use upwards of 60 players during the course of the forthcoming FBD League, according to selector Kieran Gallagher.