Niall Carew calls on Sligo football veterans to battle on

Sligo manager Niall Carew will be calling on Mark Breheny and his other batch of ‘vets’ to stay on in 2016 so that the Connacht side can build on what he views as a season of promise.

In truth, it was a so-so campaign at best, one in which a shock defeat of Roscommon in the Connacht semi-final was sandwiched between a mediocre league run in Division Three and the annihilation by Mayo in the provincial decider.

This seven-point loss to Tyrone was more comprehensive than the scoreboard suggests but Carew wasn’t too downbeat in the aftermath on Saturday.