Mayo GAA are set for another wave of pressure, after a leaked letter from Tim O’Leary, chairman of Mayo International Supporters Foundation, places question marks over their corporate governance.

Friends Buckley and Rochford must pit their wits against each other, writes Christy O’Connor.

Mayo GAA club delegates rubberstamped James Horan’s return as manager of the county’s senior football team last night.

A lack of support from the Mayo executive from the All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Kildare to recent days compelled Stephen Rochford to step down as senior football manager yesterday.

He's in the process of recruiting replacements for three of his management team.

The GAA’s proposal to designate April as a club-only month “is not working” and “must be revisited by Croke Park”, according to Mayo chairman Mike Connelly.

Mayo GAA Board chairman Mike Connelly has slammed the Gaelic Players’ Association, saying they were of “zero support” during the county’s recent managerial controversy.

Stephen Rochford was officially ratified as Mayo senior football manager at a County Board meeting in MacHale Park, Castlebar last night.

Corofin might not have expected the call to have come as early as it did but they know it was always a case of when not if Mayo would rap on Stephen Rochford’s door.

Mayo chairman Mike Connelly admits he’s still at a loss as to why the majority of the senior football panel expressed no confidence in Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly forcing their departure as co-managers.

Dublin are set for another trip through the GAA’s appeals process after the county indicated it would contest Philly McMahon’s proposed one-match ban for his part in an incident with Kerry captain Kieran Donaghy during the All-Ireland football final.

Former Mayo footballer John Casey has condemned the actions of the present squad in attempting to remove joint managers Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly.

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

John Maughan is poised for a return to the Mayo sideline having emerged as the frontrunner for the county’s vacant U21 manager’s position.

Mayo Convention: Mike Connelly was elected chairman of Mayo GAA Board at yesterday’s Convention.

The cost of preparing the Mayo senior football team jumped by almost €170,000 last year, it was revealed at the County Board Convention held in Breaffy House Hotel yesterday.

James Horan is expected to tell Mayo County Board he has no intention of quitting his post as senior manager tomorrow night.

Evan Muncie, who may have been trapped in rubble since the January 12 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince.

THE establishment of a Forestry Environmental Protection Scheme (FEPS) to encourage high nature-value forestry on farms which participate in the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) was welcomed yesterday.

AN ELDERLY priest yesterday acknowledged he was naked in saunas with former US congressman Mark Foley decades ago when the latter was a boy in Florida, but denied the two had sex.