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Galway's Sean Kelly and Mayo's Aidan O'Shea. James Crombie/INPHO

Croke Park to host Connacht final between Galway and Mayo

18,000 fans will now be able to attend the match.

CROKE PARK WILL host the Connacht senior football final on Sunday 25 July, the first time the western showpiece has been moved out of the province.

The decision has been taken to move the game involving Galway and Mayo in to order to ensure a bigger crowd can attend the game with 18,000 fans set to be accommodated.

The game had been scheduled to be held in Elvery’s MacHale Park in Castlebar but the crowd would only been 3,600 at that stadium due to current Covid-19 restrictions.

The decision was taken this evening after a meeting of the Connacht GAA management committee and 1.30pm is the throw-in for the game on Sunday week.

The winners will advance to an All-Ireland semi-final against the Leinster champions on the weekend of 14-15 August.

It will be the second successive year that Mayo face Galway in the Connacht decider with James Horan’s team winning 0-14 to 0-13 in last November’s game played at Pearse Stadium in Salthill.

Mayo booked their place in the final with last Sunday’s 5-20 to 0-11 victory over Leitrim, having earlier defeated Sligo by 3-23 to 0-12 in the quarter-final.

Galway won their recent semi-final by 2-11 to 0-12 against Roscommon in Dr Hyde Park.

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    Jan 1st 2021, 8:05 AM

    100% smacks.

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    Jan 1st 2021, 9:53 AM

    This is such an important issue. Fair play to Smacks for bringing this up . So many young lads are different shapes and sizes and feel under pressure to fit into ‘ player fit ‘ jerseys . Back in the day I would have needed the biggest jersey in the old set but was as fit as any other lad on the team . Strength and conditioning creeping into u10 level football and hurling is another terrible idea

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    Jan 1st 2021, 12:06 PM

    @Finnster: You do realise that elite players emerge start at U10 and younger, right? The years exposed to S&C directly correlates with playing at the elite level. S&C is about fulfilling athletic potential and reducing injury risk. Your comment is ignorant and hugely damaging to progress. Take elite level out of it and body image too and you’re still left with an U10 player who gains exposure to S&C enjoying their sport more because they’re fit and athletic, and having a lower risk of tearing a hamstring or doing a cruciate, etc.

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    Jan 1st 2021, 1:54 PM

    @SomeGuy: I’m sure 8 year olds would have so much fun under your drill instructor mentality. Let them enjoy the sport before burning them out and turning them off it.

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    Jan 1st 2021, 9:21 AM

    Brilliant lads.

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    Jan 1st 2021, 9:42 AM

    It’s awful for lads..but this is an everyday reality for young women..on the sports field or the street. We need to stop this together.

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    Jan 1st 2021, 5:33 PM

    He talks a lot of sense and on a related topic there is a lot made about sport being good for mental health but these lads are sacrificing their youth to train six days a week and often there is a commute on top of it and the pressure to look good, play good and win at all costs – no one can say that is a positive place mentally to be. Not everyone can live their lives like Roy Keane! And then as he says in the article they get to 30 and they are almost cast aside as yesterday’s heroes which is one thing if you’re a Premiership player and have a few quid put aside but these lads don’t get paid. They are professional in what is demanded from them but don’t get a brass farthing just a pat on the back we don’t need you any more when the music stops. That is not right.

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