Daggers drawn as Mayo allegations fly

Mayo’s football panel will not be issuing an official response to extraordinary claims made by former co-managers Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes.

However, sources close to the panel are adamant that one of the allegations never happened at all, while another, it is insisted, was taken out of context. One player is even believed to be considering his future in the sport as a result of what was said about him by the ex-management team.

In an interview with the Irish Independent on Saturday, Connelly and Holmes spoke for the first time since their decision to step down in the wake of a no confidence vote taken by the players in September last year.