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Mayo are back in division one for next year - the got the result they needed in Ennis on Sunday afternoon, but left the Munster venue with plenty of questions still to be answered and few more headaches after picking up injuries to two key men.

As the old cliché goes, games are for winning and Mayo did that, just about.

Mayo were put to the pin of their collar for the vast majority of the game by Westmeath in Mullingar on Saturday.

For the second week in a row Mayo kicked 21 points and picked up two points, but it was a far more difficult assignment than the faced seven days previously against Down.

After doing the heavy lifting in the opening three quarters last Saturday, like an experienced heavyweight working themselves back towards another title tilt somewhere down the track - Mayo will get some more rounds into their legs and lungs tomorrow afternoon in Mullingar.

Paddy Durcan is working his way back to full fitness after having to come off injured at half time in the All Ireland final last December against Dublin.

Mayo went looking to create their own Fairytale of Croke Park the week before Christmas, but unlike those children’s fables there was no happy ending.

Mayo rattled home 5-20 to see off Tipperary with ease and book their place in another All Ireland final - but they left Croke Park with plenty to work on as the Munster champions hit the back of the Mayo net three times and if they had taken the two early goal chances that presented themselves it could have been a very different game.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Galway have only themselves to blame for their one-point defeat to rivals Mayo in Sunday’s Connacht Final, according to manager Padraig Joyce, who said that his team were heartbroken, but were just not clinical enough when it mattered.