Another new era for the Mayo senior footballers got off to a solid start with a hard-fought victory over the students of NUI, Galway at MacHale Park, Castlebar.
Lining out with only three of the side that started last August’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay defeat by Kerry, Mayo finished strongly to pip NUIG at the post.
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