Colin Sheridan: Mayo's old pal Hope is back on the bandwagon

As Mayo laboured to victory over Monaghan, Hope poked its head above the parapet, like a straggler leaving a nightclub and emerging into the morning light, groggy and a little worse for wear

4 June 2022; Aidan O'Shea of Mayo awaits the final whistle in the closing seconds of the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 1 match between Mayo and Monaghan at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park in Castlebar, Mayo. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

As a young man playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Al Pacino was told that in Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. In Castlebar on Saturday night, the same could be said for Hope. 

As Mayo laboured to victory over an old, tired and confused Monaghan, Hope poked its head above the parapet for the first time in nine months, like a straggler leaving a nightclub and emerging into the morning light, groggy and a little worse for wear.