Steel and skill the winners for Mayo

NORMAL service has been restored in Connacht.

Last year, neither Mayo nor Galway participated in a provincial senior final for the first time since 1947 and the majority of opinion prior to throw-in yesterday seemed to be that the old duopoly would suffer another blow to their prestige.

It was a suspicion arched by the comprehensive win for the Roscommon minors against Galway in the preceding game that offered further proof for those eager to find it that former certainties were being chipped away out west.