James Horan has confirmed that Ciarán McDonald and James Burke will remain part of his management team for 2022.

Rumours were rife after last month's All-Ireland final defeat to Tyrone that there was disharmony in the management set-up, but this was totally rejected by Horan in an interview on Midwest Radio's Tommy Marren Show this morning.

"No, is the answer," the Mayo manager said.

"I didn't realise this was happening, but obviously a couple of my mates highlighted it to me. I find it incredible.

"The amount of untruths that were published on this is just phenomenal. Ciaran Mac and James Burke and myself have been working over the last number of weeks to plot and to plan for the new season and that's really where we need to be.

"Stories generated or whatever...it's actually incredible. I think maybe when some people take a breath and reflect on some of the stuff that's been written, they might wonder themselves."

Horan continued: "Ciaran Mac has been in my house I don't know how many times, we talk maybe four or five times a day, plotting and planning about what we can do. And working with James... I know there was a clip that was sent around of James Burke saying something to me, there were a couple of hundred people behind us, it was a little bit noisy, so I asked James to repeat what he said and that was taken out of context then.

"To me, it's bonkers, it's bonkers how people...that was published and then people ran with it, based on absolutely nothing. It's a complete untruth. Look, that's where it is. I can't control that. I can't do anything about it."

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