For the first time this millennium, Mayo have been relegated to Division Two football.
In a turn of the tables from last weekend, Tyrone were inspired and Mayo were the ones subdued. The price they’ll pay is a loss of pride, as that distinguished status leaves them, but the more pressing concern for sure will be a loss of confidence and indeed the loss of the intangible feel-good factor as the Championship looms.
Important not to get two carried away on League Sundays though.
Last Sunday, let’s not forget, Mickey Harte’s Tyrone were having their epitaphs written by experts all over after they were comfortably dismantled in Ballybofey. But they had their backs up here and crucially, they have the ace card that is the irrepressible Conor McKenna.
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They said it would take him a while to feel his way back into it, to get used to Gaelic football again. The Eglish man has three goals in two games and he has the people of Tyrone believing again. His able-deputy is the exuberant Darragh Canavan, who scored the game’s other goal, a brilliant solo effort that his old man would have been proud of.
Mayo, being Mayo, didn’t lie down though and they staged a brave fight-back as this game tipped towards its closing stages. Darren Coen and Matthew Ruane were pivotal in the revival but in the end it was too little too late, as Tyrone held on against the breeze to win by one on a scoreline of 3-14 to 1-19 and to send Mayo down with Meath.
In Division One’s dead rubber, Galway took an age to arise from the slumber that infected them last weekend, but they eventually did to make a bit of a game of it against the All-Ireland Champs. Dublin know how to win though, and contributions from Ciaran Kilkenny and the brilliant Paddy Small saw them clear. Paraic Joyce’s concerns about his side will persist.
Elsewhere, a late Liam Casey goal saved Tipperary’s blushes in Leitrim as the Premier edged a tight battle at Páirc Seán. It was far from perfect from the Premier but they got the job done, with Kevin O’Halloran scoring their other goal. Leitrim head back down to Division Four as David Power’s side preserved their status.
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Full time@TipperaryGAA: 2-11(17)@LeitrimGAA: 0-15(15)— Tipperary GAA (@TipperaryGAA) October 25, 2020
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