Ex-Mayo forward Aidan Kilcoyne hopes he can help his native Knockmore to their first county senior football championship title since 1997 tomorrow evening.

Having had a luckless career with injury, Kilcoyne was a part of the Knockmore attack in both of their final defeats in 2002 and 2004 to Crossmolina and Ballina Stephenites, respectively.

Tomorrow will see the 31-year-old starting in goal against defending champions Castlebar Mitchel's at MacHale Park, citing it as "bonus territory" from his perspective.  

"It's nice to be back playing and preparing for a county final again," Kilcoyne told the Irish Examiner.  

"100%, hand on heart, I never thought I'd be in this position again. This is bonus territory for me after everything that's happened. I've been reinvented really.

"To win this weekend would eclipse anything I've ever achieved in sport. I'd trade everything else in for a county medal. I'm not belittling my All-Ireland U21 medal - it means the world to me - but to win a championship with some lads that I've been playing with since I was six years of age would be really something special."

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