Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

An emergency meeting of the Mayo County Board executive was held last night to plot a course of action ahead of this evening’s sit-down with player representatives.

First shock, then disbelief, but come yesterday evening, the mood among the Mayo football public had turned sour.

Cian O’Sullivan. He’s playing but is he fit? Will he last the match? Will he even last the first half? Eeek.

RTÉ GAA pundit Martin Carney has defended his decision to award Kerry’s James O’Donoghue the man of the match award in Saturday’s Munster SFC final replay victory over Cork.

The cry ‘consistency’ has become an unlikely clarion call in recent years.

For what Joe Brolly considered a phoney war, yesterday’s first game produced its share of mean hits and collateral damage. Nearly all of it in the studio.

Rob Hennelly should have be sitting in the Croke Park stands on Sunday instead of standing between the posts for Mayo.

He was so extreme, and the insult he directed at Cavanagh was so over the top the rest of the panel felt obliged to restore some balance to the discussion.

James Horan hailed Mayo’s All-Ireland quarter-final win over Donegal as a day when all their hard work paid off.

All-Ireland quarter-final weekends are big ones for the referees as well as the teams involved as it’s usually from this quartet that the final official is selected.

Variables are things Jim McGuinness tries to eliminate with controllables

There’s a myth Marc Ó Sé would like to dispel but he knows only an All-Ireland title will do it.

Under the stanchions of the stadium, far away from the glare of the cameras, Martin Carney stood toe-to-toe with Paídí Ó Sé in the Kerry dressing room.

It’s official now — August 5, 2012 will be remembered as the day the music died for this once great Kerry team.

RTÉ have explained the reasons why they won’t be showing a live All-Ireland SFC quarter-final this Sunday.

The song remains the same?

Kerry selector Ger O’Keeffe refused to be drawn by his former team-mate Pat Spillane’s criticism of the team.

Jack O’Connor has been given no indication by his Kerry team that they are on the wane.

Karl O’Dwyer shakes his head at the thought of it now.

Tyrone boss Mickey Harte believes it would be “dangerous and foolhardy to write Kerry off” after their Munster championship exit to Cork.

Carney: Years at the top have taken their toll

JACK O’CONNOR has been down this road before. He stood facing a media inquisition in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in 2006 and 2009 in the wake of similar defeats to Cork. Both years O’Connor managed to revive the Kerry challenge and steer them in the direction of an All-Ireland title.

THERE was really no excuse for Gaelic football last Sunday.

THE poet Paul Durcan implored “Daddy, Daddy,” to “pass out the moon” on a journey to Mayo.

PAT SPILLANE makes no apologies for being a GAA romantic. Unfortunately for the viewers of RTÉ, Pat suffers from a strain of footballing romance which is of the Mills and Boon variety – it is largely fictional and entirely predictable.

MICKEY HARTE has accused the media of “setting the agenda” when it comes to the GAA’s disciplinary process, while launching a scathing attack on John Bannon’s refereeing in Tyrone’s All-Ireland semi-final loss to Cork last Sunday week.

More and more angry fans are complaining about television coverage of big games. This could also be down to more fans staying away from the games and preferring to watch them in the – cost-free – comfort of their own homes or their local pub. Anyway, this week again, there’s praise and criticism in equal measure again for RTÉ and TV3.

ALL THIS serious business must be catching on. For all the sombre mood, the discussion of being in the last-chance saloon and one wrong move away from ending it all, we could well have stumbled across a repeat of Questions and Answers pondering the budget yesterday, when it was in fact Michael Lyster and co chatting about the International Rules Series.

TRY TELLING your average GAA fan that the Olympics was the top draw in sport this weekend. What was happening at the Big House on Jones Road had something for everyone and it takes Cyril Farrell all of, oh, not very long at all to drop in the usual reference to hurling being the greatest game in the world. Ever.

WHEN people awoke from the snorefest of Cork and Kildare, the entertainment resumed in Croke Park yesterday.

JOHN O’MAHONY is in the process of putting the final touches to his Mayo management team, with former Olympic coach Jim Kilty likely to be involved.

John O'Mahony is back at the helm of the Mayo Senior Footballers after being unveiled as manager - as expected - following a county board meeting last evening.

John O'Mahony has been announced as the new Mayo senior football manager at a special press briefing tonight.

Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes, who were both instrumental in Mayo's National League title win in 2001, have been chosen to manage Mayo's Under-21 footballers for next season.

RTÉ analyst Martin Carney has called for legislation to curb the use of hand passes in modern football.

RTÉ will screen over 40 live hurling and football championship matches this season.

Peter McGinnity, Fermanagh's only Allstar, may soon have company, after the invigorating displays of wing forwards Mark Little and Eamonn Maguire this season.

MATT CONNOR never imagined he would be amongst the Irish hoards in Melbourne this week, sampling the delights of the International Rules Series, the Rugby World Cup and the Melbourne Cup.

MATT CONNOR never imagined

Ireland selector Martin Carney has revealed that the International Rules training panel will be cut from 40 to 28 after a trial game in Dublin tomorrow night.