Halloween may be another year away but Conor Mortimer says he is still haunted by the ghosts from Mayo's two All-Ireland final defeats to Kerry.

In his new autobiography, the Shrule/Glencorrib forward describes the Connacht men's performances in the finals of 2004 and 2006 as "atrocious" and says he is sickened whenever he looks back on the defeats to the Kingdom. 

"I don't feel good about the finals. It's a bit of a stain on the whole thing. It's a stain because it's the biggest game," he writes.

"I played 95 times for Mayo I think between league and championship and 90 per cent of the conversations I would have with people would focus on those two games.

"That's what sticks in people's heads. Not that you ended up Mayo's leading scorer of all time, not that you won three Connacht titles, not that you won an All Star, not this, that or whatever. It's just those two games. So it is a bit of a stain for me personally. But I go back and I watch those games and my god, we were atrocious. The turnovers that we gave Kerry, we just handed them the game. It was frightening to watch back."

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