Retired Mayo star Alan Dillon says that the All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay defeat to Kerry was the lowest point in his inter-county career.

Dillon, who announced his retirement in November after 18 seasons, lost out in six All-Ireland finals with the Westerners while also winning eight Connacht titles in the green and red.

He views the five-in-a-row Connacht success Mayo achieved in 2015 as being up there as one of the highlights of his career, while on the flipside the previous summer's defeat to the Kingdom down on Limerick stands out.

"Yeah, that was it definitely. Longford (2006) was very low as well, but, definitely, 2014," Dillon said at today's launch of the first ever GAA Player Conference in Croke Park.

"We went back to Westport after the Kerry replay and watched Donegal beat Dublin that day. That was really, really, really a low-point. We saw the opportunity and all of a sudden it just passed.

"The first day in 2014 when we played Kerry we were five points up and down a man. Then (James) O'Donoghue got that goal. I knew that day, 'oh my God', it was going to be a really big one to beat them in Limerick.

"While we got into injury-time, the collisions, Robert Hennelly's shot near the end, there were so many things (that went against us). That was definitely one of the lows, yeah."

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