An injury-time point from Paddy Durcan earned Mayo a hard-earned two league points in Clones on Sunday against a Monaghan side that ended the afternoon with just 12 players on the pitch.

Mayo may not have beaten Dublin in a competitive fixture for almost six years, but Stephen Rochford says that his team ‘certainly don’t fear’ the three-in-a-row All-Ireland champions.

Corofin (Galway) 2-13 Castlebar Mitchels (Mayo) 1-12 (AET): These Corofin lads have a tendency to make life needlessly difficult for themselves. Rarely, though, do they fail to get the job done.

Connacht Club SFC quarter-final: Castlebar Mitchels (Mayo) 0-16 - Mohill (Leitrim) 0-11 - Seven points without reply in the final quarter propelled Mayo champions Castlebar Mitchels into a provincial semi-final against Sligo’s Tourlestrane next weekend.

Market research firm Behaviour & Attitudes rewarded key staff with bonuses and awarded dividends to shareholders this year after the company enjoyed one of its most successful years.

Castlebar Mitchels 3-13 Knockmore 0-10: Their failure to perform in the All-Ireland club final last March was a major driving force for Castlebar Mitchels as they retained their Mayo SFC title on Saturday night at MacHale Park.

An historic and against-the-odds first All-Ireland senior club football title for Ballyboden - and the fourth time in the last nine years the Andy Merrigan Cup has remained in Dublin.

New Mayo manager Stephen Rochford says his team will be “looking to write their own history, game by game, performance by performance” next year.

Castlebar (Mayo) 3-8 Clann na nGael (Roscommon) 0-13: Castlebar Mitchels managed to keep Clann na nGael at arm’s length to set up a mouth-watering provincial final against Corofin in two weeks’ time.

Mayo’s chances of Connacht Championship success this summer received a big boost yesterday when All Star forward Cillian O’Connor made his first competitive appearance for 11 weeks.

FBD Connacht League: Mayo 1-13 NUI Galway 1-11

Outsiders Knockmore produced the big shock of the Mayo SFC quarter-finals when they dumped out last year’s beaten finalists Breaffy at MacHale Park, Castlebar yesterday.

St Vincents (Dublin) 4-12 Castlebar Mitchels (Mayo) 2-11

Diarmuid Connolly laid on a majestic performance at Croke Park, hitting a 2-5 tally to guide St Vincent’s to glory in the All-Ireland Club football final.

There was lots of spectacular action in an absorbing game in Hyde Park yesterday, before Castlebar Mitchels managed by the experienced Pat Holmes, saw off St. Brigids, and denied the Roscommon men a four-in-a-row.

St Brigid’s 2-12 Castlebar Mitchel's 3-13 (aet)

Limerick's Na Piarsaigh and Castlebar Mitchels took AIB Munster Hurling and Connacht Football Senior provincial titles respectively, while Portlaoise and St. Vincent's advanced to the Leinster Club SFC Final today.

Castlebar Mitchels’ 1-11 Breaffy 0-08

Favourites Castlebar Mitchels will take on Knockmore while Breaffy will meet Charlestown in next weekend’s novel Mayo SFC semi-finals.

The uncle of Mayo footballer Alan Dillon claimed his county board put the team in a hotel resembling “a building site” for their holiday to Miami in January.

There were disgraceful scenes at the end of a Sigerson Cup match in Galway yesterday after a referee was accosted before a mob of angry players raced to his dressing room and tried to confront him.

Mayo retained their FBD Insurance Connacht League title with an easy win at MacHale Park, Castlebar last night.

Mayo 0-14 NUI Galway 0-4, Castlebar

JOHN MAUGHAN’S NUI Galway side claimed their second inter-county scalp of the week when an Ian Galvin goal proved decisive at Tuam Stadium.

A SECOND-HALF goal from debutant Shane Maughan put Galway on the road to victory in the opening FBD League tie of the season in Ballyhaunis last night to ensure a winning start to Alan Mulholland’s reign in charge of the Tribesmen.

MAYO footballers received a massive boost with the news that injured ace Andy Moran is expected to return to action in January.

LESS than 48 hours after being crowned Young Footballer of the Year, Cillian O’Connor fired Ballintubber to their second consecutive Mayo SFC title at a rain-soaked McHale Park, Castlebar.

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.

Seamus and Aidan O'Shea will form a new-look midfielder partnership for Mayo in Sunday's Connacht SFC semi-final against Galway in Castlebar (throw-in 2pm).

INJURED Mayo midfielder Ronan McGarrity returned to training with the county squad last night, less than two weeks before the Connacht SFC semi-final showdown with Galway.

Jason Doherty, one of Mayo's most impressive performers during the recent Allianz Football League, will make his first Championship start in the county's Connacht SFC opener against London.

MAYO’S experienced midfielder Ronan McGarrity is rated as ‘very doubtful’ for Sunday’s Allianz Division 1 league match against All-Ireland champions Cork after injuring his leg in training.

Beaten league finalists UCC dethroned reigning Sigerson champions DCU this afternoon, while competition hosts UCD also progressed through to tomorrow's semi-finals.

Mayo 0-8 Kerry 1-9

A LEADING GAA official has dismissed calls for a return to an autumn start for the National Leagues claiming such a move would cause costs to spiral for county boards and lead to a congestion of club fixtures.

NUI Galway and Roscommon produced deserved wins in the opening round of the Connacht FBD League this afternoon.

DUBLIN senior Diarmuid Connolly fired 1-7 as DIT completely outclassed a poor Wexford outfit in a lopsided O’Byrne Cup opening round tie at Enniscorthy yesterday afternoon.