On a cold January’s day in Salthill, Andy Moran warmly welcomed Mayo’s first win over Galway in five attempts.

Coming just a week after seeing his new charges lose the FBD Connacht League final to their old rivals in Tuam, Moran was delighted to turn the tables.

"Did it feel like a big win? It did,” he told RTÉ.

“Galway have four in-a-row on us: two championships, a league game in between and the FBD. You have to stop the rot somewhere and today we thankfully got over the line.

"The worrying part is how easy we let Galway back into the game. One or two substitutions from them and Galway took over in the middle of the field.

"There are so many aspects of the performance that we need to improve on. You can't be playing the way we played at times with being so open at the back. We need to sort that out."

The Mayo manager added: "I was more concerned about getting a performance out of the lads and showing what they can do going forward. Galway fought like hell coming up the stretch but we held on.

"Galway were missing a fair few and we were missing a few ourselves. Jack Coyne was out and Mattie (Ruane) is to come back, Darren McHale and Cillian (O'Connor) also on the way back.”

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