Time for Mayo's luck to change, says Padden

WILLIE JOE PADDEN, who is something of a folk hero in Mayo, doesn't have too many happy memories of playing football against Cork something he hopes will change on Monday afternoon.

In 1989 he figured on the losing team in the All-Ireland final and four years later was again on the receiving end of defeat, this time at the penultimate stage of the championship.

Now operating a successful auctioneering business in Castlebar, Padden was in Ennis last Saturday night watching Mayo taking care of business against Tipperary in the qualifier. Given that showing, he reckons his native county are more than capable of beating Cork on Monday in the quarter-final.