The Mayo football team are set to become the latest inter-county squad to fly to Portugal for their All-Ireland championship preparations.

The Mayo county board have been approached by the players over a week-long warm-weather training camp next month as they gear themselves up to defend their Connacht SFC crown this summer.

Mayo chairman James Waldron said: "There's nothing in stone yet but we're provisionally looking at a few days in Portugal for a training camp. The players approached us and said they were interested in this idea. They understood the financial situation and said that they had no problem doing some fund-raising.

"The county board will obviously be assisting them and a number of people from the Mayo GAA Supporters' Clubs in Dublin and Galway will also be helping to drive the golf classic."

Members of the Mayo squad and the Mayo GAA Supporters' Clubs are organising a fund-raising golf classic to help lessen the cost of the trip.

The squad is set to leave home on Sunday week, May 9, and return home that Friday in time to play Cavan in a challenge game on May 15 to open the new facilities of the Belmullet GAA club. Tweet

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