Colm Boyle expects Mayo to run into a confident Galway outfit as they bid for a fourth successive Connacht SFC crown on Sunday.

Boyle and co. enjoyed a resounding championship victory over the Tribesmen last year but the Galway-based Garda accepts that this weekend's clash will be anything but a formality:

"Everyone is well aware that Galway have come on leaps and bounds since we played them in Salthill last year," he comments in The Irish Independent.

"They have two championship wins under their belt. They went to London and everyone knows going to London these days isn't easy - Mayo especially know that. They would have been delighted with the win.

"Again, going to Markievicz Park, getting out of there with a five-point win. They will be coming into Castlebar full of confidence.

"We have to bring our 'A' game for July 13, no doubt about it, or we will be in major trouble.

"It's a Connacht final we want to win. Any day you play in a Connacht final, you want to win whether you have won so many or lost so many championship games." Tweet

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