Rob Hennelly the lone Mayo All-Ireland starter available for 2017 opener

All-Ireland finalists Mayo will be without 14 of the team that lost to Dublin when they line out in their first game of 2017 on Sunday.

Twenty-seven members of Mayo’s 2016 championship squad flew to South Africa yesterday for a 10-day team holiday.

That means goalkeeper Rob Hennelly is the only player from the All-Ireland replay defeat available to Mayo manager Stephen Rochford for the FBD Connacht League clash against NUI, Galway in Castlebar.