THERE is cautious hope in Mayo this week, the kind that sits somewhere between relief and restraint. It’s not the pyrotechnic optimism of a county who have just wiped away a long drought; it is steadier, quieter — a practical, hand-to-the-plough faith in a familiar face.

Andy Moran’s nomination as Mayo senior men’s manager closes one search and opens another, and for a county used to swinging between yearning and realism, his appointment reads like a sensible exhale.

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