Sean Quigley has congratulated Cillian O'Connor on winning the Golden Boot award for the third year-in-a-row.

O'Connor was confirmed as the football championship's top scorer in controversial circumstances this week after it was discovered that he posted 1-7, and not 1-6, in Mayo's Connacht final rout of Sligo. The addition of the extra point to O'Connor's tally saw him edge out the Fermanagh full forward by a point. O'Connor's overall tally was 3-34 (43), while Quigley's was 2-36 (42).

"It was never something that was going to define my season," Quigley said in the Irish Daily Star.

"I just look back on the positives that we had a good league, getting promotion and a decent championship run to the All-Ireland quarter-final against Dublin.

"It would have been nice to win it, to be championship top scorer, or even joint top scorer, but it's not the end of the world. It's certainly not something I had my heart set on. It's not really a big deal to me. I knew I was there or thereabouts in the running for a good while, but I honestly didn't know the exact situation until the last couple of days.

"To be fair to Cillian, I'm sure he got that extra point legitimately in the Connacht final, so fair play to him, he's a deserving winner. For me to be just up there in the same company as players like Cillian and Bernard Brogan, that's something I'm really proud of."

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