"We were lucky," Gilroy admits
Pat Gilroy admits Dublin rode their luck as they picked up their third straight NFL win at Mayo's expense.
"We were lucky to come out with a win," he said after Mayo had shot 18 wides.
"Mayo missed a lot of easy frees and had trouble in general with their shooting so I think we were fortunate to hold on at the end.
"Fellas are trying hard, though, and there's a lot of enthusiasm from guys like Paul Conlon, Mickey Fitzsimons and Philly McMahon. Hopefully, we can keep that going now."
Mayo boss John O'Mahony was ruing his side's poor finishing after the defeat.
"I'm very frustrated to be honest. We created the chances, I couldn't fault their work-rate, but we just didn't put them away.
"The loss of Peadar (Gardiner) and Ronan (McGarrity) in the first half pinched us a little bit too, but we recovered from that fairly well. At the end of the day, we just weren't able to get those couple of scores that would have made the difference."
