O’Shea is backing in-form Moran to deliver

For the second GAA media event in succession, Mayo put forward a player unlikely to start the promoted game.

Back in April, it was Alan Freeman before the Division 1 final — he played no part — and yesterday it was Seamus O’Shea, who is only back in training the past four weeks after tearing his hamstring, quad and groin. That awful run of luck has meant he’s behind his brother Aidan and in-form Barry Moran in the midfield stakes with Danny Geraghty and Jason Gibbons also ahead of him in the queue. Having played alongside Moran, not to mention his younger sibling with Breaffy (19-year-old Conor is also on the panel), O’Shea can speak with authority about the pair.

“We [Moran and I] have a good understanding,” he said.