Potential rules breach forces Mayo to cancel training camp

THE Mayo senior football squad will not be travelling to Portugal for a six-day training camp as planned next week after it was discovered that the trip would have been in breach of GAA regulations.

The county panel and team management were due to depart for Brown’s resort in Vilamoura next Sunday, May 9, and return in time for a challenge match against Cavan in Belmullet on Saturday, May 15.

However, Mayo GAA Chairman, James Waldron, one of the main organisers of the trip, learned earlier this week that a ruling brought in over two years ago as part of the GAA’s measures aimed at tackling burn-out and affording more time to club fixtures meant the training camp had to be cancelled.