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Enda Gilvarry's Mayo minors face their own "high noon" on Sunday when they take on Galway in the Connacht Minor Football Championship final in Pearse Stadium in Salthill. Mayo booked their place in the showdown with an impressive win over Leitrim nine days ago, but this challenge will be an all together tougher one for this years crop of minors.

After taking congratulations from family and friends on the field after his stunning performance for Mayo on Wednesday night, it was all about looking ahead to next Sunday for Mayo's man of the match Ryan O'Donoghue. The young Belmullet man was just delighted that the team got the win. "Thank God, it's been hard training and if you lose your first game you're out, so it's good to have it over and done with. It's all about the team, we're all in it together, I'm just glad that we got over the hurdle," he told the Mayo Advertiser.

Mayo have been drawn to play Fermanagh on July 9 in their first qualifier appearance since 2010. It does pose the toughest draw they could have got however home advantage should make them overwhelming favourites. Fermanagh  have two seriously good forwards in Tomas Corrigan and Sean Quigley, and their midfielder and captain Eoin Donnelly is an inspirational player for his county but we  are dealing with a seasoned Mayo team who should be more than capable of dealing with their threat, Naturally Fermanagh folk are gutted as an away trip to Mayo was the last thing they wanted. It really was the nightmare draw for the Ernesiders. Incidentally Mayo are priced at 1/12 to prevail while you can get 7/1 on Fermanagh. I’m mystified at such short odds on Mayo.