Mayo manager John O’Mahony is to remain at the helm for the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
Mayo went out of this year’s championship thanks to a quarter-final defeat to beaten semi-finalists Meath but O’Mahony has seen enough this year, at all levels of Mayo football, to believe there is hope of more success next year.
“Last autumn, I was given an additional two years as team manager by the Mayo county board and I've decided to take up the option of the remaining 12 months in the position.
“Despite our failure to get past the All-Ireland quarter-final this year, I feel the future is very bright for Mayo football.
“It's very encouraging that the county achieved a clean sweep of Connacht titles this year. As well as the seniors, the minor and under-21 sides also won provincial titles.
“Of course, the minors were in last year's All-Ireland final and took Tyrone to a replay and are in this year's All-Ireland final.
"The under 21s only lost narrowly to Down in this year's All-Ireland semi-final, who were only beaten by a late goal by Cork in the All-Ireland final," he told the Irish Examiner.
The Fine Gael TD added there was plenty of scope for some of the younger players to move up into the senior ranks.
“Lads from the under 21 team like Donal Vaughan and Tom Parsons have already made the breakthrough to the senior team as has, of course, Aidan O'Shea, who was on last year's minor team and this year's under 21 team.”