Erratic Dublin fall to Mayo

Mayo 1-10 Dublin 0-03

Seven days is a long time in football and it was to be the case at McHale Park as an erratic Dublin, so imposing against Tyrone last Sunday, fell to a strong Mayo outfit, 1-10 to 0-03 in NFL Division 1A.

Dublin cut their teeth early with pointed frees from Tomas Quinn and Conal Keaney inside the first six minutes before Mayo scored three unanswered points through goal scorer last weekend Damien Munnelly, Austin O’Malley and Kevin Malone.

After a bad wide from Billy Joe Padden, the Connacht side’s lead was stretched further by an O’Malley placed ball before Darren Homan latched onto a Ciaran Whelan offload to point Dublin’s first score for 15 minutes from play.

Leeds-based forward Trevor Mortimer goaled after 28 minutes, showing his tenacity after his first effort was beaten back off Dublin’s left upright.

O’Malley finished off the scoring with his fourth point in first-half injury time for a 1-06 to 0-03 lead.

Dublin boss Tommy Lyons brought on Coman Goggins and Declan Lally, replacing John McNally and surprisingly skipper Ciaran Whelan, but to no great effect.

St Vincent’s forward Tomas Quinn had a shot taken off the Mayo goal line after 24 minutes of the second half but that was to be the closest an inept Dublin got to a fourth score.

Mayo closed out their win with O’Malley notching three points in a 15-minute run for their second win in the space of a week.