SENIOR PLAYERS ADAM Gallagher and Diarmuid O’Connor will lead the Mayo U21 side for Wednesday night’s Connacht U21 quarter-final against Roscommon.
Gallagher will captain the team from left half-forward while O’Connor starts at midfield. Both players saw game time in the Mayo senior side’s first three league games this spring.
Full-forward Evan Regan and corner-forward Conor O’Shea, a younger brother of Aidan and Seamus, are other players who have previously been involved with the Mayo senior squad.
Midfielder O’Connor, a younger brother of senior forward Cillian, is one of four members of last year’s All-Ireland winning minor side named in Mayo’s starting line-up. Centre-back Stephen Coen, midfielder Padraig Prendergast and centre-forward Michael Plunkett were also members of that triumphant team.
Prendergast is one of two current minors in the U21 side, along with goalkeeper Matthew Flanagan. Substitutes Michael Hall and Liam Irwin were also on last September’s minor winning team.
MAYO: 1. Matthew Flanagan (Balla); 2. Kevin Lynch (Mayo Gaels), 3. Liam Kitterick (Westport), 4. Aidan Butler (Claremorris); 5. Cian Burke (Ballymun Kickhams), 6. Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore), 7. Padraig O’Hora (Ballina Stephenites); 8. Padraic Prendergast (Louisburgh), 9. Diarmuid O’Connor (Ballintubber); 10. Gareth O’Donnell (Charlestown Sarsfields), 11. Michael Plunkett (Ballintubber), 12. Adam Gallagher (Mayo Gaels); 13. James Shaughnessy (Claremorris), 14. Evan Regan (Ballina), 15. Conor O’Shea (Breaffy).
Subs: 16. Shane Keane (Crossmolina), 17. Eoghan Collins (Ballyhaunis), 18. Michael Hall (Breaffy), 19. Brian Murphy (Ballintubber), 20. Darragh Ruane (Bohola Moy Davitts), 21. Sean Regan (Ballina), 22. Steven Conroy (The Neale), 23. Anthony Jordan (Bohola Moy Davitts), 24. Liam Irwin (Breaffy).
