Three Mayo players have been included in GAA.ie’s Football Team of the last 25 years.
A 26 man panel has been selected, with two of the green and red’s finest included in the first 15.
Keith Higgins of Ballyhaunis is selected at left corner back.
The four time All Star is described as the ‘prototype of the modern corner back thanks to his combination of tigerish defending and counter attacking ability. He has pace, skill, and a great knack for reading the game’.
Selected at right half back as Westport’s Lee Keegan.
The five time All Star and 2016 Footballer of the Year was ‘a brilliant all round footballer who could combine touch-tight man-marking with a great ability to join the attack and kick important scores’.
In at number 25 is Ballintubber’s Cillian O’Connor.
He is the leading scorer in the history of the championship with an incredible tally of 32-363, and as the article states – ‘the bigger the occasion the more he seemed to like it’.
Cillian O’Connor has opted out of the Mayo panel for 2025.
Here is the 26 man panel in full:
- Stephen Cluxton – Dublin
- Marc Ó Sé – Kerry
- Seamus Moynihan – Kerry
- Keith Higgins – Mayo
- Lee Keegan – Mayo
- Kieran McGeeney – Armagh
- James McCarthy – Dublin
- Brian Fenton – Dublin
- Michael Murphy – Donegal
- Sean Cavanagh – Tyrone
- Peter Canavan – Tyrone
- Ciarán Kilkenny – Dublin
- Colm Cooper – Kerry
- David Clifford – Kerry
- Conor McManus – Monaghan
- Niall Morgan - Tyrone
- Conor Gormley – Tyrone
- Mick Fitzsimons – Dublin
- Tomás Ó Sé – Kerry
- Jack McCaffrey – Dublin
- Philip Jordan – Tyrone
- Darragh Ó Sé – Kerry
- Stephen O’Neill – Tyrone
- Steven McDonnell – Armagh
- Cillian O’Connor – Mayo
- Bernard Brogan – Dublin