Mexican singer Sergio Vega has been shot dead only hours after he had denied reports he had been murdered.

The 40-year-old singer, known as El Shaka, told a website he had increased security measures after a number of Mexican musicians were killed.
Musicians performing narcocorridos, songs celebrating the lives of drug barons, often become the targets of rival drug gangs.
Gunmen opened fire on Mr Vega on his way to a concert in Sinaloa state.
Mexican media reported Mr Vega was driving his red Cadillac on Saturday night when a truck started following him.
Shortly afterwards, shots were fired at the car, injuring Mr Vega and making him lose control of the vehicle and crashing it, his passenger told El Debate newspaper.
The gunmen then "finished Mr Vega off" with shots to the head and chest, El Debate reported the passenger as saying.
Police confirmed they found spent bullet shells next to the driver's door.
The BBC's Julian Miglierini in Mexico City said rumours had been circulating among fans of the Grupero genre of music that Mr Vega had been killed.
Only hours before the shooting, he told the entertainment website La Oreja that reports of his murder had been mistaken.
"It's happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I've been killed, or suffered an accident," Mr Vega said.
"And then I have to call my dear mum, who has heart trouble, to reassure her," he explained.
He told the site that musicians performing Grupero music were worried, but that he had entrusted himself to God.
Mr Vega said he had increased his security measures after the killing in 2007 of Sergio Gomez, the singer of Grupero band K-Paz de la Sierra.
Mr Gomez was kidnapped after a concert in Michoacan, at which Mr Vega had also performed. He was found strangled days later.
At least seven Grupero musicians have been killed over the past three years.
Police have blamed drug gangs for the killings.
They say musicians who celebrate the lives of drug barons in their lyrics often become targets for rival drug gangs.


Derry City and Strabane District Council has passed a motion asking local newsagents to stop selling The Sun.

The motion was put forward to show "solidarity" with the families of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster.
It also called on the council to support the campaign group Total Eclipse of the S*n, which wants all shops to boycott the newspaper.
A spokesperson for The Sun described the move as "extreme censorship".
"We are astonished that in Derry - a city that has prided itself on its association with civil liberties and free speech - some elected politicians think it's appropriate to push such extreme censorship on its citizens and retailers," it said.
The vote was proposed by independent councillor Paul Gallagher and supported by 27 SDLP, Sinn FÃ©in and independent members.
One unionist representative voted against, whilst seven more unionists abstained.
"This newspaper has produced lies, after lies, after lies," said Mr Gallagher.
"In the aftermath of the Hillsborough inquiry, we wanted to show solidarity with the families, just as they showed solidarity with the families of Bloody Sunday.
"People are still free to make a choice, we are requesting not telling."
Liverpool councillors unanimously backed a similar motion to stop selling The Sun earlier this week.
The newspaper has been widely boycotted in the city because of its accusations following the Hillsborough disaster.
All 96 fans who died as a result of a crush at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed, inquests concluded in April.
Mr Gallagher agreed with those sentiments but also cited local examples of "terrible hurt" he said The Sun caused.
In 2006, The Irish Sun's front page said: "Husband mows down vigil gran".
The article referred to Nellie Doherty, 78, who died when a vehicle shunted her husband's car which then hit her as she prayed by the road for a friend killed in another accident.
The newspaper later printed an apology, but Nellie Doherty's sister, Margaret McDaid, said at the time that it was not enough.


Scotland's Pamela Pretswell moved one shot off the lead at the halfway stage of the Mediterranean Ladies Open.

Pretswell, 27, shot a second-round 67 to move seven under par as she bids for a first European Tour title.
Spain's Nuria Iturrios carded 65 for a narrow overnight advantage ahead of Pretswell and France's Karine Icher.
Overnight leader Anna Nordqvist is a shot further back, while English trio Holly Clyburn, Florentyna Parker and Melissa Reid are five under.


The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a toddler has retired to consider its verdict.

Sean Buckley, 28, from Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, denied murdering 17-month-old Finley Thomas and a charge of child cruelty.
His partner Chloe Thomas, Finley's mother, has admitted child cruelty after originally denying it.
The jury was sent home for the evening on Wednesday afternoon and will resume deliberations on Thursday.
The pair told Cardiff Crown Court that Finley had fallen from the top of the stairs when Ms Thomas was out.
He was taken to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, on 23 September 2014 but died the next day.


Crusaders lost 3-0 to Danish champions FC Copenhagen in the first leg of their Champions League second qualifying round tie at Seaview on Wednesday.

Federico Santander headed low into the bottom corner of the net for the opener in the 19th minute.
Andreas Cornelius added the second with a diving header from Peter Ankersen's cross five minutes before the interval.
Rasmus Falk fired into the bottom right-hand corner from 20 yards for a well-taken third in the 53rd minute.
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The outcome of the tie looks to be already decided going into next Tuesday's second leg in Denmark.
The Irish Premiership champions made a lively start and Declan Caddell headed over from Richard Clarke's cross.
The hosts created a number of further chances in the second half, with Gavin Whyte going close and substitute David Cushley posing a real threat in his first competitive appearance for Stephen Baxter's side.
The former Ballymena United forward forced Robin Olsen into a fingertip save with a half-volley, then fired over and also brought another fine stop from the visiting keeper with a late effort.
Santander could have scored another after the break but Sean O'Neill saved well.
Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "We were up against top European opposition littered with internationals of really high quality.
"Having said that, we competed in the game, created a number of chances against a really good team and asked their keeper to make a couple of smart saves.
"We were under a lot of pressure, as we knew we would be, but from our perspective we gained a lot in terms of fitness and our tactical approach to a lot of things."
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Substitution, FC København. Youssef Toutouh replaces Kasper Kusk.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. Michael Gault replaces Matthew Snoddy.
Substitution, FC København. Bashkim Kadrii replaces Federico Santander.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. Andrew Mitchell replaces Declan Caddell.
Substitution, FC København. Jan Gregus replaces William Kvist.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. David Cushley replaces Richard Clarke.
Goal!  Crusaders FC 0, FC København 3. Rasmus Falk Jensen (FC København) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
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Goal!  Crusaders FC 0, FC København 2. Andreas Cornelius (FC København) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Declan Caddell (Crusaders FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andreas Cornelius (FC København) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal!  Crusaders FC 0, FC København 1. Federico Santander (FC København) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
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A Brazilian audit court has ruled that President Dilma Rousseff broke the law in managing last year's budget.

The government was accused of borrowing money illegally from state banks to make up for budget shortfalls.
The opposition says the ruling by the Federal Accounts Court - which reports to Congress - paves the way for impeachment proceedings against Ms Rousseff.
She was re-elected less than a year ago but has record low popularity ratings.
The Brazilian government says it would challenge Wednesday's ruling in the Supreme Court.
"The game is not over," said Attorney General Luis Adams.
The minister who handled the case in the Accounts Court, Augusto Nardes, said the government disregarded fiscal and constitutional principles in the handling of the 2014 accounts.
Ms Rousseff's government raised spending "without fiscal sustainability and without the required transparency", said Mr Nardes.
The irregularities amount to more than $26bn (Â£17bn; 100 billion reais), according to the court.
If the decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, the government's accounts will then be assessed by the Congress, where Ms Rousseff's coalition has a majority.
This is the latest in a series of setbacks for Ms Rousseff.
On Tuesday, Brazil's top electoral authority said that it would re-open an investigation into alleged misuse of funds during Ms Rousseff's re-election campaign.
The Supreme Electoral Court will try to determine if Ms Rousseff's and Vice-President Michel Temer's campaign drew on donations from illegal sources.
The probe was requested by the opposition PSDB party.
The Brazilian economy has gone into recession and is expected to shrink by 3% this year.
The government's popularity has fallen amid corruption scandals involving senior politicians from Ms Rousseff's Worker's Party and other coalition members.


A man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a man in Dunfermline last year.

Duncan Banks, 39, was found dead at his flat in the town's Skye Road on 28 September.
At the time police said he been the victim of a "violent assault" and had suffered a head injury.
Police Scotland said a 28-year-old man had been arrested and charged with the murder of Mr Banks. He is expected to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.


One of the renowned trees which features in Game of Thrones has fallen on to the road near Armoy, County Antrim.

It fell onto the Bregagh Road on Tuesday night.
The tunnel of trees, known as the Dark Hedges, became famous throughout the world after it featured as the Kingsroad in the HBO series.
In January, a number of the 200-year-old beeches fell victim to Storm Gertrude.
The trees were planted by the Stuart family along the entrance to their Gracehill House mansion.
Over the decades, the branches grew over the road and became entangled and intertwined, creating a covered passageway with something of an ethereal feel.
Originally, there were about 150 trees, but time has taken its toll and now only about 90 remain.
Steve McCartney, from Causeway Coast and Glens Council, said that weather conditions and the age of the tree had caused it to fall.
"What's happened here has been very simple, there's been a bit of wind overnight and this tree has had a fork and inside that fork a bit of water has gathered - something we couldn't have seen was that that gave rot inside the tree," he said.
"A point of weakness and unfortunately that big branch came down."
He said the volume of tourism at the site was unlikely to have contributed to it.
"Most of the nutrients that this tree and the other trees will get are from the trees on either side of the road, so the traffic on the road probably  isn't as major a factor as we might expect," he said.
"Really when they get to this age, they are starting to wind down."
North Antrim assembly member Mervyn Storey, who is chairman of the Dark Hedges Preservation Trust, said a number of trees had been lost in recent years due to their age and weather conditions.
"There's been ongoing discussions between the Causeway Coast and Glens Council, Transport NI, the Tourist Board, the [National] Trust and other interested parties to ensure that we have a comprehensive plan for this area," he said.


A "muddled" Brexit would cost London heavily in terms of jobs and investment, Sadiq Khan has warned.

The Mayor of London accused the government of having no clear strategy just two months ahead of a deadline to formally trigger the UK's exit from the European Union (EU).
Mr Khan said a "muddled Brexit" would be as damaging as a "hard Brexit".
The Department for Exiting the European Union has yet to respond to the mayor's speech.
In his speech to business and political leaders on Thursday, night the Mr Khan said: "It's deeply concerning that we still appear to have muddled thinking at the heart of government.
"The only thing that would be as damaging as a hard Brexit would be a muddled Brexit.
"And - unfortunately - it looks like that is where we are heading unless there's a change in tact and direction from our government."
The Mayor said a negative Brexit impact for London would hit the whole country.
"If the proper agreements aren't negotiated and we don't get the necessary transitional agreements in place, there'll be serious knock-on impacts on our future - with jobs and billions of revenue lost," he said.
"Revenues used to deliver public services and much, much more.
"This would hit the entire country, not just London."
Downing Street has previously said the prime minister will give a speech next week "setting out more" on the government's Brexit plans.
Theresa May's official spokeswoman said: "She will be making a speech on Tuesday, setting out more on our approach to Brexit, as part of preparing for the negotiations and in line with our approach for global Britain and continuing to be an outward-looking nation."


Pope Francis is reported to have acknowledged the existence of a "gay lobby" inside the Vatican.

He also said there was a "stream of corruption", according to reports in Catholic media.
He is said to have made the remarks during a private meeting with a group of Latin American Catholic clerics.
The clerics wrote up a report of the conversation that then appeared on the Chilean website Reflection and Liberation.
Previous rumours
According to the report, the Pope was extremely open as he discussed problems at the Vatican.
He is said to have told the Latin American delegation that there were good, holy men in the administration, but that there was also corruption.
The Vatican would have to "see what we can do" about the "gay lobby" operating in the bureaucracy, he said. "It is true, it is there," the report quotes him as saying.
In the days leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's resignation in February, the Italian media carried many un-sourced reports that gay Vatican clergymen had been working together to advance their personal interests, leaving the Holy See vulnerable to blackmail.
There were even suggestions that the situation had influenced Benedict's decision to resign.
At the time, the Vatican vigorously denied all the rumours.
It has so far declined to make any comment regarding the Pope's reported remarks, other than that the audience with the Latin American clerics was private.
An organisation representing the clerics, known by its Spanish acronym CLAR, has said it has apologised to the Pope for the publication of the report.
CLAR said in a statement that it "deeply regretted the publication of a text which refers to the conversation with the Holy Father".


A 24-year-old Australian exchange student has fallen to her death from a spectacular Norway cliff popular with photographers.

Kristi Kafcaloudis was posing for a photo at Trolltunga or "troll's tongue" on Saturday when she fell hundreds of metres, local media said.
The Australian government on Tuesday said it was providing assistance to her family.
The cliff, visited by thousands of tourists annually, has no safety rail.
Ms Kafcaloudis started studying at the University of Bergen, in Norway, last month.
In a statement, the university said it had been notified by police on Sunday morning of the young woman's death in Western Norway.
Ms Kafcaloudis's Australian university released a statement saying it is "deeply saddened" by the news and was liaising with her family.
Monash University said Ms Kafcaloudis was an Arts Science double degree student at its Clayton campus.
In recent years, the cliff has become a beacon for thrill-seekers posing on the edge of the rock overhang, sometimes jumping in the air.
Last month, well-known UK adventurer Toby Segar, was photographed doing a backflip on the cliff's edge.


A Dyfed-Powys Police officer has had an assault conviction overturned on appeal.

PC Simon Reynolds, 38, was found guilty after a trial of assaulting a 27-year-old man outside a nightclub in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, in November, 2014.
He was handed an eight-week suspended sentence at Swansea Magistrates' Court in September.
However, on Friday, a judge quashed his conviction at Swansea Crown Court.
An inquiry into PC Reynolds' conduct was launched after a referral to police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
It related to the alleged assault of a man arrested outside Bar Luna in the town centre.
The IPCC confirmed PC Reynolds, who always denied any wrongdoing, was successful in his appeal.


Wireless systems used by passengers on planes in the US could be hacked to access flight controls, a federal watchdog agency has warned.

A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said it is one of several emerging security threats not being dealt with properly.
It comes as air traffic control is modernised to use satellite technology.
The US Department of Transportation said it was "committed to strengthening capabilities against evolving threats".
GAO investigators spoke to cyber security experts who said onboard firewalls intended to protect avionics from hackers could be breached if flight control and entertainment systems use the same wiring and routers.
One expert told investigators "a virus or malware" planted on websites visited by passengers could provide an opportunity for a malicious attack.
Michael Huerta from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which oversees airspace, agreed with the GAO's findings and said it had begun working with government security experts to make the changes needed.
"This threat will continue to evolve and it is something that needs to be at the forefront of our thinking," he told a Senate oversight panel.
Congressman Peter DeFazio said: "FAA must focus on aircraft certification standards that would prevent a terrorist with a laptop in the cabin or on the ground from taking control of an airplane through the passenger wi-fi system."
The Department of Transportation said the FAA was "committed to strengthening our capabilities to defend against new and evolving threats with a high degree of urgency".


Police investigating the murder of an 83-year-old dog walker who was attacked in woodland have released descriptions of three "vital" potential witnesses.

Peter Wrighton's body was found on Saturday near Fiveways Junction, three miles south of East Harling in Norfolk.
An inquest heard he had been stabbed repeatedly and died from "incised wounds to the neck".
Detectives want to trace three men who were seen around the woodland near the time Mr Wrighton was attacked.
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CCTV images have been released of Mr Wrighton, of The Moor, Banham, using a post office in Kenninghall at 10:10 BST, just 35 minutes before his body was found in the woods.
The drive between the post office and the woodland takes at least 10 minutes. He was found dead at 10:45 BST.
No-one has yet been arrested, and the murder weapon has not yet been found.
At a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Det Supt Andy Smith described the investigation as "large-scale, complex and detailed".
He said officers were appealing specifically to three men who police are yet to trace as potential witnesses.
The first is white, in his 50s, with pale skin and grey or white hair balding on top. He was believed to be wearing heavy-rimmed glasses and light-coloured trousers, and was seen in The Street changing into a white T-shirt.
The second man is white with a tanned complexion, aged 25 to 30, 5ft 9in to 5ft 11in, with an athletic build, short, dark wavy hair and dark eyes.
He was wearing a grey or blue T-shirt, grey floppy gym-style shorts above the knee and heavy duty flip-flops. He was seen within the boundary of the woodland site which police are searching.
The third man is described as a white male, aged 30 to 50, of medium build, who wore dark-coloured clothing and was seen walking without a dog in the northern area of the heath.
An inquest into the death of Mr Wrighton, of The Moor, Banham, opened in Norwich and adjourned for a review on 14 December.
The hearing, at Norfolk Coroner's Court, was told Mr Wrighton was a retired BT engineer who was born in Tottenham, London.
His body was formally identified by his wife Ann at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on Tuesday.
A post-mortem examination recorded the medical cause of death as "incised wounds to the neck".
Mr Wrighton's family and his wife of 59 years described him as "a lovely, gentle husband, dad and grandfather".
He had a "kind nature" and had a "love of walking his dogs and chatting with people to pass the time of day", his family said.


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A woman who was working in a food outlet in the St George's Market area of Belfast has been left distressed after an armed robbery.

It happened at about 09:00 BST on Saturday morning.
A man described as about 5ft 11" tall, of medium, stocky build and wearing a dark hoodie, coat and woollen hat entered the shop carrying what appeared to be a firearm, police said.
He made off with money from the till. Police have appealed for information.
Det Sgt Moffett said: "We would like to hear from anyone who witnessed this incident.
"A female member of staff was left distressed by the incident but did not require hospital treatment."


A teenager who was killed when the car he was travelling in hit a tree has been named.

Kane Balogun, 14, from Birmingham, died after the crash at the junction of Stetchford Road and Beaufort Avenue, Hodge Hill, on Friday night.
A 26-year-old man was arrested by West Midlands Police on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, and has since been bailed.
In a statement Kane's family said they are "devastated" by his death.
Anyone who witnessed or has any information on the crash is urged to call West Midlands Police on 101.


Two 13-year-old US girls who went missing on Monday have been found dead, and the case is being investigated as a double homicide, police say.

The bodies, recovered on Tuesday near a creek in the US state of Indiana, were of Liberty German and Abigail Williams, post-mortem examinations confirmed.
The girls were reported missing when they failed to show up to a meeting point after a hike.
Police have yet to release a cause of death, citing an ongoing investigation.
The girls' bodies were discovered along the edge of Deer Creek, about a mile east of Delphi, Indiana.
They were found not far from an abandoned rail bridge where they had been dropped off to go hiking on Monday.
The pair were reported missing hours later, when they did not show at a predetermined meeting point.
Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby urged anyone with information to come forward.
"It is disturbing. We're going to get to the bottom of this. We're confident of that," Mr Leazenby said during a news conference on Wednesday.
State Police Sergeant Kim Riley said there are no suspects, but authorities have received hundreds of leads.


Eurotunnel has delayed the resumption of vehicle and freight services through the Channel Tunnel after a lorry fire.

The firm said it was taking longer than anticipated to restart trains because of "residue smoke" and customers would be offered transfers to ferries.
Passenger train operator Eurostar cancelled 26 services, but says it will run a "full service" on Sunday for people with bookings, with some delays.
No-one was hurt in the fire at the French end of the north tunnel.
Passengers were safely evacuated from trains in the tunnel, and the fire "was quickly brought under control by the emergency services", Eurotunnel said on its Twitter account.
The company, which runs vehicle and freight shuttles through the tunnel, said an inspection was under way. It said it anticipated resuming overnight services through its south tunnel, which was unaffected by the fire.
But in a tweet shortly before midnight, the company said it was "taking slightly longer than anticipated to recommence services" as it needed to be sure any residue smoke had cleared completely.
Customers would be offered transfers to ferries until services recommenced but this would not be until after 06:00 GMT on Sunday, it added.
There is expected to be a reduced timetable on Sunday, it said.
The director of public affairs at Eurotunnel, John Keefe, said the north tunnel was being cleaned up and having damage repaired.
Eurostar will be running a "full service" on Sunday for passengers who have "an existing reservation for this date", it said in a statement.
Services would be subject to delays of between 30 and 60 minutes because the north tunnel is expected to remain closed, it added.
"We would strongly advise passengers whose journeys were impacted today by the problems in Eurotunnel not to come to our stations unless they have rebooked through our contact centre," Eurostar said.
Eurostar's customer care number is 03432 186 186, or +44 1777 777 878 for people outside the UK.
Eurotunnel's information line is +44 8444 63 00 00.
Meanwhile, P&O Ferries said an extra ferry service had been put on between Dover and Calais on Saturday as a result of the fire.
Earlier, Eurotunnel had said the alarm was raised when two CO2 detectors were triggered at 11:25 GMT.
A load on a lorry on board a train, en route from the UK to France, had been "smouldering", a Eurotunnel source said.
Eurostar - which operates passenger services through the tunnel between Paris, London and Brussels - said 26 of its trains have been cancelled on Saturday afternoon.
One passenger Ben Lawton described how he was taken to a "makeshift medical centre in Calais" after being evacuated from a train inside the tunnel and given a gas mask.
"We were taken to an airtight concrete room within the tunnel and had to wait for two hours. Then we were taken by coach to Calais," he said.
Another passenger Johnny Chatterton was travelling by Eurostar from London to Paris when his train was sent back to St Pancras, having been stopped at Ashford.
He said there was a queue of up to 400 people at St Pancras station.
"We've been told we have to try and book again, possibly for tomorrow," he said.
John Hope was travelling to Paris with his girlfriend when their train was turned back.
"This was meant to be a birthday treat for my girlfriend but it has turned into a pretty poor experience all round," he said.
Stephen Hicks' train was turned back towards Paris after it was diverted. He was in a group of 12 travelling from Les Moutiers to Ashford on a "fully occupied train," he told the BBC.
"Our train was stopped at Lille and there was confusion over what was happening. We are going to be in Paris for the night but we have no idea where we'll be staying."
Nigel Harris, managing editor of Rail Magazine, said thousands of passengers could have been disrupted by the fire.
"If you have 26 trains cancelled or reversed with a capacity of 780 people per train that is over 20,000 people immediately affected by the train that we know about."
The Independent's travel editor, Simon Calder, said it was going to be difficult for people trying to make alternative travel arrangements as there were not "that many flights between London and Paris and Brussels on a Saturday afternoon or a Sunday morning".
He added: "Motorists who were going on the tunnel from Calais to Folkestone will of course be able to just switch to one of the ferries which are operating."
Because it is closer to France, Eurotunnel's French incident control centre at Calais has been co-ordinating the response to the incident.


Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey missed the 2-1 win over Slovakia in Euro 2016 because of a back spasm.

The 29-year-old, who has won 57 caps, conceded just four goals in Wales' 10 qualifiers for the tournament.
He was replaced by Liverpool's Danny Ward, who started for his country for the first time in winning his third cap.
Goals from Gareth Bale and Hal Robson-Kanu saw Wales win in their opening game in Group B.
Injury meant the 22-year-old Ward missed the end of the season for Liverpool, having made his Premier League debut in April.
Crystal Palace goalkeeper Hennessey, whose domestic season ended in the FA Cup final defeat by Manchester United, played in all 10 of Wales' qualifiers en route to France, with Chris Coleman's men achieving major tournament qualification for the first time in 58 years.
Hennessey played 46 games last season for club and country, while understudy Ward featured 33 times, the bulk of which was during a loan spell at Aberdeen.


Aaron Mauger says he is "devastated" by Leicester's decision not to appoint him as head coach.

The 36-year-old former All Black has been in charge since Richard Cockerill was sacked in January.
But Mauger, whose final game will be against Northampton Saints on Saturday, has been overlooked in favour of ex-Tigers coach Matt O'Connor.
"Definitely I wanted to stay and see it through for the rest of the season," he told BBC Leicester Sport.
"I was kept in the loop the whole way through, but I'm clearly disappointed and devastated at the outcome.
"The club have made that decision in the best interests of the club, and what they believe going forward, so I have to respect that and move on."
The return of 46-year-old former Australia international O'Connor was announced on Monday, just a day after Mauger guided the Tigers to victory over Exeter in the Anglo-Welsh Cup final - the club's first silverware in four years.
Following the departure of the long-serving Cockerill, Leicester lost their first three games under Mauger, but won three of their next eight in all competitions.
They are fifth in the Premiership table, a point behind Bath, with five matches to play.
"Where the group are at the moment is pretty exciting," Mauger added. "We have really turned things around over the last eight or nine weeks.
"There is a real positive energy in the group and that has been reflected in some really good performances. Unfortunately that wasn't enough.
"We have a big game on Saturday against Saints and we look forward to starting a home run for the play-offs."


Charl Schwartzel will take a three-stroke advantage into the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in Malelane, South Africa.

The South African world number 50, five shots ahead after day two, dropped a shot at his opening hole in round three but posted a 70 to reach 13 under par.
Sebastien Gros, who fired nine birdies in a 63, shares second place with fellow Frenchman Benjamin Hebert.
Scot David Drysdale is the highest placed Briton in a tie for fifth spot.
Drysdale, 40, the world number 345 who is yet to win on the European Tour, had three birdies and an eagle in his 69, leaving him six strokes off the lead.
But England's Eddie Pepperell, who had a 65 on Friday, dropped three shots in a 74 and slipped into a share of 25th, 10 strokes adrift.
South African Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champion, is seeking his fourth Dunhill title in 11 years but was unhappy with his third round at Leopard Creek Country Club, where he finished well with a birdie at 17 and a scrambled par at the last.
"I felt really uncomfortable to be honest, I struggled," the 31-year-old said.
"As good as the long game was the first few days, it was as bad today and it made me feel very uncomfortable.
"On the positive side, I've shot a lot worse scores playing like this and that means there is an improvement in my game."


A former Leeds United employee who won her case for unfair dismissal and sex discrimination has said football still has "a lot of dinosaurs".

Lucy Ward said she was sacked because she is the partner of former head coach Neil Redfearn.
The tribunal was told club chairman Massimo Cellino told a third party that women "should be in the bedroom or the beautician's" instead of in football.
In a statement, the club said Mr Cellino denied making the comment.
It added: "Mr Cellino categorically denies making the statement, which has since dominated the media coverage of the hearing, and would like to make it clear that such a statement does not represent his views of women in football whatsoever.
"Mr Cellino is horrified and disgusted that the witness statement was made public to portray him in a light entirely detached from the truth."
Ms Ward, the club's former education and welfare officer, told BBC Look North said there was still hope for the future.
She added: "I think there is a lot of dinosaurs in there, as there is in lots of industries.
"There is a new modern, young coach coming into it who has had discrimination and equality training and I think there's more of them than the dinosaurs."
The tribunal concluded, on the balance of probabilities, Mr Cellino told then club executive director Adam Pearson that Ms Ward had to leave the club.
The club denied any wrongdoing and claimed she was dismissed for exceeding her annual leave entitlement after she travelled to the 2015 Women's World Cup to work as a BBC pundit.
The tribunal judge agreed the club had taken a "sexist" view and ruled the reasons for her dismissal were "a sham".
Ms Ward, who worked in the club's academy, said: "I can't let the antics of a couple of people affect what I think of Leeds United, because it's my club, it's every fan's club."
Mr Cellino did not give evidence during the tribunal.


Feelings of a ghostly presence - the sense that someone is close-by when no-one is there - lie in the mind, a study has concluded.

Scientists say that they have identified the parts of the brain that are responsible for generating these spooky sensations.
They have also created an experiment that makes some people feel like there is a ghost nearby.
The research is published in the journal Current Biology.
There are many tales of the paranormal, but an often-reported phenomenon is that of the invisible apparition.
Dr Giulio Rognini, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), says: "The sensation is very vivid. They feel somebody but they cannot see it. It is always a felt presence."
He said it was common in those who experience extreme conditions, such as mountaineers and explorers, and people with some neurological conditions, among others.
"What is astonishing is that they frequently report that the movements they are doing or the posture they are assuming at that specific moment is replicated by the presence. So if the patient is sitting, they feel the presence is sitting. If they are standing, the presence is standing, and so on," he explained.
To investigate, the researchers scanned the brains of 12 people with neurological disorders, who had reported experiencing a ghostly presence.
They found that all of these patients had some kind of damage in the parts of the brain associated with self-awareness, movement and the body's position in space.
In further tests, the scientists turned to 48 healthy volunteers, who had not previously experienced the paranormal, and devised an experiment to alter the neural signals in these regions of the brain.
They blindfolded the participants, and asked them to manipulate a robot with their hands. As they did this, another robot traced these exact movements on the volunteers' backs.
When the movements at the front and back of the volunteer's body took place at exactly the same time, they reported nothing strange.
But when there was a delay between the timing of the movements, one third of the participants reported feeling that there was a ghostly presence in the room, and some reported feeling up to four apparitions were there.
Two of the participants found the sensation so strange, they asked for the experiments to stop.
The researchers say that these strange interactions with the robot are temporarily changing brain function in the regions associated with self-awareness and perception of the body's position.
The team believes when people sense a ghostly presence, the brain is getting confused: it's miscalculating the body's position and identifying it as belonging to someone else.
Dr Rognini said: "Our brain possesses several representations of our body in space.
"Under normal conditions, it is able to assemble a unified self-perception of the self from these representations.
"But when the system malfunctions because of disease - or, in this case, a robot - this can sometimes create a second representation of one's own body, which is no longer perceived as 'me' but as someone else, a 'presence'."
The researchers said that their findings could help to better understand neurological conditions such as schizophrenia.
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What used to be an old slate quarry in Pembrokeshire has once again been transformed into a coliseum for the world's most fearless divers.

The stage is a 27 metre (88ft) platform fitted to the rock face over Abereiddy's Blue Lagoon with 5,000 people expected to line the cliffs to see divers leap, twist and somersault, with concentration their only form of protection.
This is the third time the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series has come to Wales, and along with Ironman Wales, puts Pembrokeshire firmly on the world map.
Abereiddy is the sixth stop of the series, and eyes were on the reigning champion Gary Hunt, who was representing Great Britain along with Blake Aldridge and wildcard Mat Cowen.
But the Czeck Republic's Michal Suprati Navratil took first place, with Hunt second and the United States' Andy Jones third.
The competition took place on Saturday but Sunday's events had to be cancelled due to the weather.
Hunt, 32, is originally from Southampton but has lived in Paris, for the past six years.
He is a former Commonwealth diver and won bronze in the 10 metre (33ft) synchronisation event at the 2006 games. He also enjoyed success at the Great Britain National Diving championships.
But he was not always a diver. As a child he was a competitive club swimmer, but became bored of just going up and down the lanes. At age nine, his attention turned to the excitement of the diving pool.
"I had a go and instantly fell in love," he told BBC Wales.
After finding it difficult to qualify for World Championships and Olympic diving events, Hunt took the opportunity to join a diving show in Italy. It was here he met Australian diver Steve Black, who saw Hunt's potential and put his name forward for high diving competitions.
"The door opened a whole new world for me," said Hunt.
Since his first high diving competition in 2007, Hunt has gone on to win five Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. He is the only athlete who has competed in all 50 world series stops - and has won half of them.
But what does it actually feel like to stand on the 27 metre platform and look down?
"We're all terrified when we stand on the platform. It comes with the job," said Hunt.
"But you build up confidence every time you do it."
Asked what makes the perfect dive, Hunt said: "To get a 10, you need a strong jump, you need to be the right distance away from the platform, everything in the dive needs to be neat and tidy, your feet need to be together and the finish needs to be perfect, with no splash."
"It's always a jump into the unknown," he added. "And we all know a small mistake can lead to a trip to the hospital."
This is something Hunt's fellow British diver Blake Aldridge knows all too well. At the last round in Italy he had a bad landing and ended up biting his tongue.
"I had to have both sides stitched up," said Aldridge, who spoke to BBC Wales shortly after diving from the walls of Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire.
"I had severe whiplash and am carrying a bad shoulder injury which meant I had to change my dives for the weekend. But it's not in my nature to give up and I was never going to miss my home event," he said.
Aldridge, 34, and from London, is a former British diving champion. He was a finalist in the 10m synchronised dive in the 2008 Olympic Games with partner Tom Daley.
After retiring from Olympic diving in 2010 he was invited by Red Bull to take part in high diving.
"The first time I stood on the 27 metre platform, I stepped back. It was three times higher than what I was used to," said Aldridge.
"Fortunately, Gary Hunt was standing at the other end of the platform and asked me what was wrong. He gave me some wise words and said jumping was the hardest part.
"A few dives later, he told me 'I had got it'.
"It's proof that once you overcome your fear, you can do anything."
Aldridge admitted that it is still scary now, with he and Hunt performing some of the hardest dives in the world.
"When we started, people were just performing basic dives, but new dives need to be done," he said.
Asked if his family and friends worry about him, Aldridge said: "At the first event they were apprehensive and scared for me, but the more often they've been, the more they've been able to relax and enjoy it."
Along with Wales, the world series sees the professional divers compete in Texas (USA), Copenhagen (Denmark), Azores (Portugal), La Rochelle (France), Polignano a Mare (Italy), Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sandanbeki (Japan) and Dubai (UAE).
"Each location is different and I can't really say I have a favourite," said Hunt.
"I love diving in front of the home crowd and I'm looking forward to the weekend.
"The crowd in Abereiddy is great and my family and friends come along. It's a great place to watch as not all places on the series are spectator-friendly."
Abereiddy also welcomed female competitors for the first time, with Australia's Rhiannan Iffland coming in first, Lysanne Richard from Canada second and third place going to Cesilie Carlton from the USA.
"It's great the women are on the series now," said Hunt.
"It adds a new dimension to our sport. There are only 10 female athletes at the moment, but I know of a few more in training.
"It gets the sport closer to our dream of it becoming an Olympic sport. It's only a matter of time before it does."


Since last week's referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union, there has been much talk of a second referendum.

The claim: There could be another referendum on the UK's relationship with the European Union.
Reality Check verdict: A second referendum on the UK's membership of the EU seems both unlikely to happen and unlikely to give a different result to the first one. A referendum on the deal reached for leaving the EU is possible but not required by current legislation.
It is not the first time it has been mentioned.
Actually, it was discussed much earlier in the campaign with Michael Howard suggesting in February that a vote to leave could "shake EU leaders out of their complacency" and lead them to offer the UK a better deal to persuade the country to stay.
There has been no sign of that happening so far.
But second referendums have been in the news - Nicola Sturgeon wants a second referendum on Scottish independence, and it has been less than two years since the last one.
It would not be the first time there has been a second referendum when the population of a member state has voted against the EU.
In Denmark, a second referendum was held after voters rejected the Maastricht Treaty.
A deal was done giving the country an optout of the euro and home and justice affairs, and the second referendum passed.
In Ireland, a second referendum was held after the original referendum had rejected the Nice Treaty.
Again, concessions were made and the second vote passed.
Ireland also had two votes on the Lisbon Treaty.
In each case, the unanimous approval of EU members had been needed for treaty changes, so the whole process would have stalled if the referendums had not passed.
That is not the case with the UK's decision.
The referendum in the UK was, strictly speaking, only an advisory one.
Tottenham MP David Lammy has said that people could "stop this madness through a vote in Parliament", and there has been a big petition calling for another referendum.
But Dr Simon Usherwood, from the think tank UK in a Changing Europe, says that if there was a second referendum, it would annoy the electorate and make people more likely to vote to leave.
"The public would also very likely take a second vote... as a mark of bad faith, and would respond accordingly," he says.
"Rather than avoiding Brexit, it would simply harden the decision."
In a post-referendum poll by ComRes, 92% of leave voters said they were happy with the outcome, while 4% of remain voters were happy (and, overall, 7% were indifferent).
MPs have rushed to say the democratic process must be respected and the UK must leave the EU, among them Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
But Mr Hunt wrote in Tuesday morning's Daily Telegraph newspaper that there would need to be a vote on the terms on which the UK leaves.
"We need to negotiate a deal and put it to the British people, either in a referendum or through the Conservative manifesto at a fresh general election," he wrote.
Mr Hunt is talking about having this vote before the UK triggers Article 50, which begins the process of the UK leaving the EU.
That would mean waiting for a new prime minister to take over, negotiating a deal on the UK's trade relationship with the EU and, then, holding either a referendum or a snap general election, or indeed waiting for the scheduled one in May 2020, before triggering Article 50.
And bear in mind that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said there cannot be any discussions of the terms of the UK's deal before Article 50 has been triggered.
Whether there has to be a referendum on the deal with the EU will be a matter for Parliament and the next prime minister, but the current legislation does not require there to be one.
The European Union Act 2011 "ensures that if in the future there is a proposed treaty change or decision in the existing treaties that moves a power or an area of policy from the UK to the EU, the government will require the British people's consent in a referendum before it can be agreed", but the negotiations are unlikely to move power in that direction.
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Motherwell striker Scott McDonald insists he did not dive in a bid to deceive officials at the weekend.

The 33-year-old was booked after going to ground during Saturday's 1-0 victory at local rivals Hamilton.
"People that dive are cheats," the Australian told BBC Scotland. "It's not diving when there is contact.
"I wouldn't go down if there wasn't contact, that's just not in my nature. If I dived and there was no contact, I'd be ashamed."
McDonald was cautioned by referee Kevin Clancy as he made his way towards the opposition penalty box.
"He blew up straight away and gave a foul for simulation," said McDonald.
"I can't repeat what I said. I wasn't best pleased.
"You can see my reaction is 'what the hell went on there'. You can tell by a player's reaction if they have dived or if they haven't.
"If you see how I react, it's not in a nice way because it was definitely a free kick.
"But there were words and incidents previous to that with the referee and I think that had an influence on it.
"I was one booking away from a ban, so I'll be suspended at some point. In terms of that logic, I'm not looking to dive because I know I'm in trouble."
On the wider issue of what constitutes simulation, the former Celtic and Middlesbrough striker added: "I'm not dragging my leg out, trying to make contact.
"Contact has to be made on my movement or if I'm trying to get out of the way.
"It's not even a decision. You've got a split second.
"There will be occasions when you know you won't get the ball on the other side so, if there is contact, you are well within your rights in the laws of the game.
"If there's contact and there's obstruction, it's a foul.
"You ask any footballer and they've done it once, twice, three times in their career - had contact in a tight situation and went down.
"How many times do you see full-backs in corner areas stick their backsides out and fall over on top of the ball. It's still a free kick because he's protecting the ball and there is contact."
The victory at Accies lifted Motherwell three points above their Lanarkshire neighbours in the struggle to avoid the relegation play-off.
Two rounds of Premiership games remain, with the Steelmen at home to Kilmarnock on Tuesday, while Hamilton visit Ross County.
"It's all to play for," said McDonald. "Obviously we enjoyed the win but there was no over-celebrating. We have a job to do and it might go to the last day.
"Hopefully we can build on Saturday's result. We've not had back-to-back wins [in the league] all season."


Olympic gold medallist Elinor Barker finished fifth in the time trial at the National Road Championships after suffering a puncture at high speed.

Barker made the switch from the track to the roads for this event but had to complete the last 5km on her road bike.
Claire Rose claimed victory in the race on the Isle of Man, ahead of Hannah Barnes and Olympic champion Katie Archibald in third.
"It was not a great day for me," Barker told BBC Wales Sport.
"It was a 22km circuit and I was having quite a good run but then I punctured on quite a fast descent."
Steve Cummings won the men's event by eight seconds from Alex Dowsett, 28, who missed out on a record sixth British time trial title. James Gullen, 27, was third.
It was the first national title of 36-year-old Cummings' career and comes shortly after he recovered from a shoulder injury.
"I haven't really had time to think over the last few months, I've just been trying to get back," he said.
"Today was the perfect confirmation of what I've being seeing in training. It wasn't perfect, it wasn't pretty, but it was as much as I could do, and it was good enough."
Wales' Owain Doull abandoned his challenge because of a puncture and countryman Sam Harrison finished eighth.
Barker believes she was travelling at about 50mph when her misfortune struck and had to swap her time trial bike for her road equivalent.
"I had to stop, change my bike and get going again so I lost quite a bit of time," she added.
"Having to do the last 5km on my road bike meant I could not go as fast as everyone else so I slipped down the rankings a bit.
"I was left wondering where I could have finished. Claire Rose won and had an amazing ride and I would like to have thought I could have been close to her."
At the same event, Carmarthen cyclist Scott Davies became the first rider to win four successive Under-23 time trial titles, winning by nearly 50 seconds.
Tom Bayliss and Charlie Tanfield joined him on the podium.
"It's brilliant, a really nice feeling to do it for a fourth time," Davies said.
"I just kept telling myself to give it my all, and if that turned out to be enough for the win, then brilliant.
"This is my last year at Under-23 so I hope the record stands for a while. It'll be a step up for me next year, double the distance, so I've got some training to do."


A bill to convert EU law into British law is a "naked power-grab" attacking the foundations of devolution, First Minister Carwyn Jones has said.

He and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said they cannot back the repeal bill "as it currently stands".
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said the legislation provided a platform for Welsh firms to continue trading with the rest of the EU after Brexit.
He said the Welsh Government had itself been involved in drafting the bill.
The repeal bill - published on Thursday as the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - aims to ensure the rules currently set by European law still apply in the UK after Brexit, while giving the UK Parliament power to change them.
UK Brexit Secretary David Davis said he would "work with anyone" to make it the transition a success, but other parties have voiced their opposition.
Mr Jones and Ms Sturgeon condemned the bill in a joint statement issued in Brussels, where they were both meeting the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
They said the UK government had "failed utterly" to prove it was serious about Theresa May's call for a "constructive and collaborative approach" to Brexit.
They claimed the bill "does not return powers from the EU to the devolved administrations, as promised".
"It returns them solely to the UK Government and Parliament, and imposes new restrictions on the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales.
"On that basis, the Scottish and Welsh Governments cannot recommend that legislative consent is given to the Bill as it currently stands."
The first ministers said they had "repeatedly tried to engage with the UK Government on these matters, and have put forward constructive proposals about how we can deliver an outcome which will protect the interests of all the nations in the UK, safeguard our economies and respect devolution".
"Regrettably, the Bill does not do this," they said.
"Instead, it is a naked power-grab, an attack on the founding principles of devolution and could destabilise our economies."
Mr Jones has said he would produce his own legislation, in the form of a Continuity Bill, if he felt the Westminster legislation threatened the powers of the assembly.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood was also critical, saying: "Wales needs greater powers, not fewer."
"And there's a real question of democracy here," she added.
"This is about taking decisions away from people in Wales and Plaid Cymru frankly will not stand for it."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said the repeal bill would allow businesses in sectors such as agriculture and steel to continue trading with the rest of the EU after Brexit.
"I have got to look Welsh farmers in the eye and tell them, yes, they will be able to have the opportunity to continue to sell their Welsh lambs in France, and across Europe," he said.
"But in order to get to that position we need this framework in place. That is fundamental to the trade arrangements."
Mr Cairns also insisted the Welsh Government had been involved in the drafting of the bill.
"They are content with the replication of what is currently European law on a UK level because they know that allows us to strike the trading arrangement we all want," he said.
Neil Hamilton, UKIP's group leader in the assembly, claimed the first minister's concerns were "totally unfounded", calling the repeal bill a "wonderful result for devolution as we see new powers transferred from Brussels to Cardiff Bay".
"Rather than getting behind Brexit, Carwyn Jones has decided to cross the road to pick a fight with Westminster; one which he cannot hope to win," he added.
Mr Jones's meeting with Mr Barnier was taking place despite Welsh ministers having no role in the negotiations with the European Union.
Earlier, the first minister told BBC Radio Wales he wanted to ensure "Wales has a voice", adding: "It's not all about London conducting the negotiations".
Mr Jones was planning to state his opposition to Theresa May's view that leaving the EU without a trade agreement would be better than striking a bad deal.
Monmouth Conservative MP David Davies claimed the first minister's trip to Brussels could be "hugely damaging" and looked like "wilful sabotage".
He accused Mr Jones of "cosying up to the EU to undermine our negotiating strategy".
Alun Cairns has framed this debate in terms of trade and the constitution, and more specifically around the question of what should come first.
The Welsh Government believes it is an outrage that EU powers in devolved areas will be heading in the direction of Westminster, rather than Cardiff, after Brexit.
Alun Cairns believes that would take too long, and in order for trade to continue with the rest of the EU the morning after we leave, there needs to be a quick way of dumping all the Brussels rules and regulations into a temporary Westminster "holding pattern".
The calculation is that farmers and steelworkers will agree that uninterrupted trade with some of their biggest customers will outrank the constitutional niceties of the devolution settlement.
In the end, this standoff comes down to trust. The Welsh Government is being asked to trust the UK government that this is temporary. It would appear that trust is in short supply.
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Facebook says it is working on technology to allow us to control computers directly with our brains.

It is developing “silent speech” software to allow people to type at a rate of 100 words per minute, it says.
The project, in its early stages, will require new technology to detect brainwaves without needing invasive surgery.
"We are not talking about decoding your random thoughts,” assured Facebook's Regina Dugan.
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"You have many thoughts, you choose to share some of them.
"We’re talking about decoding those words. A silent speech interface - one with all the speed and flexibility of voice."
Ms Dugan is the company’s head of Building 8, the firm’s hardware research lab. The company said it intends to build both the hardware and software to achieve its goal, and has enlisted a team of more than 60 scientists and academics to work on the project.
On his Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg added: "Our brains produce enough data to stream four HD movies every second.
"The problem is that the best way we have to get information out into the world - speech - can only transmit about the same amount of data as a 1980s modem.
"We're working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain about five times faster than you can type on your phone today.
"Eventually, we want to turn it into a wearable technology that can be manufactured at scale. Even a simple yes/no 'brain click' would help make things like augmented reality feel much more natural.
"Technology is going to have to get a lot more advanced before we can share a pure thought or feeling, but this is a first step."
Other ideas detailed at the company’s developers conference in San Jose included work to allow people to “hear” through skin. The system, comparable to Braille, uses pressure points on the skin to relay information.
“One day, not so far away, it may be possible for me to think in Mandarin, and you to feel it instantly in Spanish,” Ms Dugan said.
With these announcements, Facebook is envisioning technology that is far in advance of anything currently possible. To achieve sophisticated brain control with today's technology requires the implanting of a computer chip into the brain, something Ms Dugan joked "simply won't scale".
There are already external brain-control technologies on the market, but these are simplistic in comparison. Electroencephalogram tech - known as EEG - can monitor electric impulses in the brain, but only for very basic, structured output - such as moving a dot up or down a computer screen.
"We'll need new, non-invasive sensors that can measure brain activity hundreds of times per second," Facebook said in a statement.
"From locations precise to millimetres and without signal distortions. Today there is no non-invasive imaging method that can do this."
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Donegal have won the All-Ireland Football Championship for only the second time by beating Mayo in the final at Croke Park.

Early goals by Michael Murphy and Colm McFadden sent the Ulster champions on the victory path - 20 years after the county's previous Sam Maguire success.
Underdogs Mayo fought back and were just 2-4 to 0-7 down at the break.
However, Jim McGuinness's Donegal picked things up again in the second half to emerge worthy winners.
So, another disappointing day for Mayo on the big day out in Dublin - they have not won an All-Ireland final since 1951.
James Horan's Connacht champions had been regarded as a defensively tight unit in the 2012 campaign, but they were left reeling by those two early goals.
The Mayo heads had dropped briefly when the second goal went in and there must have been momentary concern that the GAA's big showpiece occasion could dissolve into a disappointing no contest.
Donegal had raced into a seven-point lead inside the opening 11 minutes but Mayo did well to gain the momentum later in the half and be just three in arrears at the interval.
The first goal came after just two minutes, 28 seconds, as captain Murphy collected a high ball and beat maker Kevin Keane to blast a right-foot finish past a helpless David Clarke.
Mayo defender Lee Keegan was then guilty of a high challenge on Mark McHugh. That gave Keegan a yellow card and McFadden the easy task of converting the free.
Then came the second Donegal goal. Patrick McBrearty's effort came off the far upright, defender Keane missed a chance to collect and McFadden capitalised by drilling a low shot into the net.
Donegal, 2-01 to the good, could have led by double figures but Clarke made a good close-range save from McFadden's shot.
Mayo got their first point in the 16th minute through Kevin McLaughlin and Cillian O'Connor added a free.
Buncrana half-forward Ryan Bradley advanced to add to the Donegal score but then Mayo were boosted by four unanswered points through McLoughlin, two O'Connor frees and a splendid effort from out wide by Michael Conroy.
McFadden, who came into the game with a 2012 Championship tally of 3-28, added two more frees before the break with Enda Varley and another O'Connor free ensuring Mayo trailed by just 2-4 to 0-7 at the turnaround.
The early stages of the second half were evenly contested with McFadden and Murphy tagging on frees and Frank McGlynn scoring from play for Donegal, and Cillian O'Connor (2) and Enda Varley landing frees for Mayo.
Two more frees and a point from play by Murphy edged Donegal towards the finishing line.
Replacement Richie Feeney and Keegan scored for Mayo while Neil Gallagher registered a score for Donegal.
Another Mayo substitute Jason Givens landed the final point but there was no denying Donegal their historic triumph in front of 82,269 spectators at GAA's headquarters.
Donegal scorers: Murphy 1-4, McFadden 1-4, Bradley 0-1, McGlynn 0-1, Gallagher 0-1
Mayo scorers: McLoughlin 0-2, O'Connor 0-5, Conroy 0-1, Varley 0-2, Feeney 0-1, Keegan 0-1, Gibbons 0-1


Pupils are to be offered support at a Powys school following the death of a seven-year-old classmate while on a family skiing holiday.

Carwyn Scott-Howell, from the village of Talybont-on-Usk, near Brecon, fell to his death in the French Alps on Friday.
Special support is to be offered to school children and staff at Ysgol Y Bannau in Brecon on Monday.
A family tribute said Carwyn was  an "adorable, caring person".
Head teacher Emyr Jones said: "We are all grieving.
"Normally, children would be coming back full of excitement about what's happened with their families over the two weeks [Easter holidays].
"Unfortunately, I'm sure many of them will have heard the sad news of losing Carwyn over the weekend."
Mr Jones added: "Our role as a school will be to support the children to come to terms with what has happened and to respond to their needs during the day.
"We are all grieving and Powys [council] staff will be in to support not only us as members of staff but also here to support the children as well."
The Foreign Office said the accident happened in Flaine, 38 miles north west of Chamonix.
Police said Carwyn fell 160ft (49m) after straying off the piste.
Michel Ollagnon, police commander for the south-eastern town of Bonneville, said the family were making their last descent of the mountain when Carwyn's mother stopped to help his sister who had fallen.
It is thought he wandered off from the rest of the family who then lost sight of him.
Local authorities in France are investigating the accident.
The Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance to the family.


Britain is moving towards more active defence in cyberspace, the head of the UK's new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said.

Speaking in Washington, Ciaran Martin was giving his first public comments as the chief executive of the NCSC.
The centre, which launches next month, will absorb existing roles such as protecting government and critical infrastructure.
It will also look at new ways of engaging with business and the public.
Among its plans are developing automated defences to offer protection from high-volume but relatively unsophisticated cyber-attacks.
The NCSC will take a lead on protecting government networks and those of national level importance, but Mr Martin also outlined ways in which it would be more ambitious in improving the UK's overall cybersecurity.
One-eighth of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) comes from the digital economy, the highest in the G20 group of industrialised economies, and Mr Martin said retaining public confidence in online transactions and ensuring economic growth was a priority in the same way as protecting national security.
Last year, twice as many "national-security-level cyber-incidents" were detected compared with a year before, amounting to about 200 per month.
The attacks are not always highly sophisticated.
The breach at the telecoms company TalkTalk used a basic technique dating from the end of the 20th Century rather than anything new.
"Far too many of these basic attacks are getting through," Mr Martin said. "And they are doing a lot of damage."
The new strategy will include using technology to automate defences against unsophisticated but high-volume cyber-attacks.
Mr Martin described this as "active cyber-defence", distinguishing it from the US use of the term, which relates to pursuing hackers into their networks.
Two to three years ago, there had been an expectation in government that a market of supply and demand would help deal with the low- to medium-end cyber-threats, leaving government to concentre on high-end threats.
But officials acknowledge this has not taken place and that information sharing has often reached limits leading to a shift towards a more "activist and automated approach".
The NCSC has already been working on using automated measures on government networks.
This includes ensuring UK government email is trusted and not spoofed to fool members of the public.
"We trialled it, and whoever was sending 58,000 malicious emails per day from taxrefund@gov.uk... isn't doing it anymore," Mr Martin said.
The centre has also been piloting ways of tackling commodity attacks - off the shelf, easy-to-use malware.
This has involved sending automated takedown requests to web hosts, registrars and others.
The focus has been on government networks but the ambition is to take these ideas beyond government on a voluntary basis - for instance working with service providers to stop the abuse of certain protocols to reroute traffic.
This would make it harder for UK machines to be hijacked for use in denial of service attacks.
The centre is also exploring scaling up DNS filtering - a method of screening web addresses for malware and other malicious content - to help providers protect their customers (with the public able to choose if they wanted to take part).
Another aspect of the overall strategy is working on "core national defensive cyber-capabilities" to tackle the truly high-end threats.
Mr Martin said the UK was developing "lawful and carefully governed offensive cyber-capabilities to combat and deter the most aggressive threats".
The new centre will take over incident response (ranging from covert detection to a stronger, more visible role in providing public advice and reassurance in a crisis).
In protecting critical networks, Mr Martin pointed to two challenges ahead.
One was the switch to universal credit, where, Mr Martin said, 90% of claims would be processed online - meaning one system would pay out 7% of GDP.
This means preventing online fraud will be a priority.
Another challenge is the switch to smart meters, which  are connected to the internet.
There have been reports of weaknesses in the system, but Mr Martin said efforts had been undertaken to ensure they could not be easily compromised.
Mr Martin acknowledged the NCSC 's roots in GCHQ would require overcoming challenges.
For many years, industry figures complained that GCHQ was good at asking for information but less good at sharing what it knew and - as an intelligence agency - was over-secretive.
Overcoming that legacy and playing a role in public education, will require a culture shift.
A new headquarters in London - rather than GCHQ's home in Cheltenham - is designed to aid in that process.
Mr Martin worked in Whitehall before moving to GCHQ and then being picked to lead the NCSC.
A number of senior staff from GCHQ with deep technical experience are also moving over to the centre, which is intended to signal the commitment of the intelligence agency to make NCSC work effectively.


The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has loaned former Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Pat Hickey money to pay his bail.

Mr Hickey has remained in Brazil after being arrested on suspicion of alleged illegal ticket touting at Rio 2016.
He has denied all allegations made against him.
He was released almost two weeks after his arrest in August but his passport was retained.
In November a judge in Brazil ruled that Mr Hickey was to be given back his passport and permitted to leave the country for medical reasons on payment of a €410,000 bond.
Last month, the OCI ruled out paying the bond for Mr Hickey.
ANOC said it made the temporary loan to Mr Hickey on humanitarian grounds.
The decision was unanimously approved by ANOC president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, and all ANOC vice presidents, via a postal vote on 20 November.
The body said the payment was "made as a temporary loan so that Patrick Hickey could meet his bail requirements and return to Ireland where he can receive medical treatment for a heart condition.
"The terms of the temporary loan make it clear that it must be repaid  to ANOC in full," it said in a statement.
"For legal reasons, all other terms and conditions surrounding this bail payment will remain confidential."


Mae pennaeth Ysgol y Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, sydd ar fin rhoi gorau i'w swydd, yn dweud ei bod yn pryderu am y niferoedd sydd yn astudio'r Gymraeg ar lefel uwch.

Mae llai o ddisgyblion wedi bod yn dewis astudio Cymraeg fel un o'u pynciau Lefel A ac mae hynny'n "drueni", meddai'r Athro Sioned Davies wrth raglen Newyddion 9.
"Mewn ffordd, efallai bod hynny yn adlewyrchu pa mor gryf mae pobl yn teimlo ynglŷn â'u Cymraeg, hynny yw dydyn nhw ddim yn gorfod astudio'r Gymraeg fel pwnc," meddai.
"Maen nhw yn gallu astudio pethau eraill trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg."
Dywedodd hefyd bod pryderon o fewn adrannau Cymraeg ynglŷn â thoriadau ym maes addysg uwch ac effaith Brexit ond dyw hi ddim yn credu y bydd y pwnc yn stopio cael ei ddysgu ym mhrifysgolion Cymru.
Cyfnod 'cyffrous'
"Pan mae niferoedd myfyrwyr yn mynd ar i lawr yna wrth gwrs mae pobl yn edrych ar faint o staff sydd ym mhob adran," meddai.
"'Da ni i gyd yn cefnogi ein gilydd ac yn sicr 'dw i ddim yn rhagweld y bydd unrhyw brifysgol yn cael gwared ar y Gymraeg."
Cydnabod bod denu pobl i astudio'r pwnc yn her mae Dr Dylan Foster Evans, fydd yn olynu Sioned Davies.
Ond mae'n dweud bod nawr yn gyfnod cyffrous i astudio'r pwnc am fod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gosod targed i gael miliwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg erbyn 2050.
"Ar un lefel mae'n edrych yn uchelgeisiol tu hwnt," meddai.
"Ond os ydych chi yn meddwl bod poblogaeth Cymru yn mynd i dyfu, 'dy o 'mond yn cynyddu ryw 5% falle, i ryw chwarter poblogaeth o bumed ran.
"Felly dydy hi ddim yn gynnydd enfawr yn y ffordd yna.
"Ond wrth gwrs mi fyddai'n chwyldroadol oherwydd mae'r siaradwyr newydd yna 'da ni am eu creu yn mynd i ddod o gefndiroedd gwahanol i'r siaradwyr presennol.
"Felly dyma'r amser mewn gwirionedd i gael myfyrwyr i mewn sydd yn gallu bod yn rhan o hynny, gwthio hynny, siapio hynny a hefyd dadansoddi hynny."


A Welsh World Cup campaign that held so much promise a week ago ended in disappointment as Australia won the third-place play-off.

A try and drop-goal from Berrick Barnes and eight points from the boot of James O'Connor left Wales with fourth place despite a try from Shane Williams in possibly his last Test appearance.
In an error-ridden contest short on quality and atmosphere, Wales failed to replicate their devastating attacking form of earlier in the tournament.
A succession of handling errors gifted the Wallabies the initiative, and Leigh Halfpenny's try in the 83rd minute came too late to deny Robbie Deans' men.
While the result gives Australia revenge for Wales' victory in the corresponding game in the inaugural World Cup 24 years ago, a serious knee injury to fly-half Quade Cooper left their celebrations muted.
And while Eden Park was virtually full, there was the unmistakeable whiff of anti-climax about the night, the minds of both players and supporters on Sunday's final and what might have been.
Wales will reflect that they lost three matches at this World Cup by a combined total of five points, with a host of missed kicks costing them dear in the final analysis.
Australia's hopes suffered an early blow when full-back Kurtley Beale limped off with a recurrence of his hamstring injury, but after Williams was clattered into touch by the right corner-flag the Wallabies struck with pace and precision.
Will Genia took quick ball from the back of an attacking scrum and fed Cooper, whose sweetly-timed flat pass put Barnes through the hole between Jonathan Davies and Jamie Roberts and under the posts.
O'Connor converted for 7-0, only for a fumble from David Pocock off a poor pass to set up a Welsh scrum in front of the Australian sticks. When referee Wayne Barnes called the Wallaby front row for collapsing, James Hook eased over the resultant penalty.
With Australia looking for another gap deep in Welsh territory, Cooper then went down in a heap after his right knee appeared to buckle. He was carried off the pitch, clearly in great pain, his nightmarish World Cup coming to an end with an injury later confirmed as torn anterior cruciate ligaments.
O'Connor hit the right upright with a long-distance penalty attempt after prop Paul James was mangled at a scrum, and the game entered a scrappy phase with both sides spilling possession in contact and under the high ball.
Halfpenny pushed a penalty of his own wide to the right before Davies opted for a grubber with space outside him and put the ball into touch.
The errors continued after the interval as Hook somehow hooked a straightforward penalty from 25 metres out and O'Connor kicked the ball out on the full after taking it back inside his own 22.
But even without suspended skipper Sam Warburton, Wales were beginning to dominate the breakdown, and when Wallaby possession was burgled on halfway a clever kick ahead from Mike Phillips allowed Hook to gather behind the defensive line.
His pass out wide appeared to be both forward and short of Williams, but the old stager booted the ball onwards on the volley and kicked past the covering run of O'Connor before gathering and flopping over the line for his 58th Test try and an 8-7 lead.
Hook again missed his place kick, albeit from way out left, and O'Connor snatched back the lead with a brace of penalties as the Welsh forwards failed to roll away at the breakdown.
Barnes then lofted over a drop-goal from distance for a 16-8 lead with 15 minutes left, replacement Stephen Jones reducing the deficit to five points with a drilled penalty from 35m.
A glorious piece of counter-attacking rugby from the Wallabies' back line appeared to have made the game safe, Genia releasing Adam Ashley-Cooper to run from deep, the winger combining beautifully with O'Connor to cut through the Welsh defence until George North's desperate tackle on the try-line stripped the ball from Ashley-Cooper's grasp.
It was a brief stay of execution. Another handling error in the Welsh midfield allowed the Wallaby forwards to batter their way towards the try-line, and Ben McCalman took advantage of a disorganised defence to rumble over in the left-hand corner to seal victory.
Wales had the last word after a series of 30 controlled phases saw Bradley Davies put Halfpenny over in the left corner, Jones converting, but it brought little consolation.
Wales: L Halfpenny; G North, J Davies, J Roberts, S Williams; J Hook, M Phillips; G Jenkins (capt), H Bennett, P James, L Charteris, B Davies, D Lydiate, T Faletau, R Jones.
Replacements: L Burns (for Bennett, 70), R Bevington (for James, 64), AW Jones (for Charteris, 53), A Powell (for Lydiate, 64), L Williams (for Phillips, 64), S Jones (temp for North, 33-37, for Hook, 50), S Williams (for J Davies, 70).
Australia: K Beale; J O'Connor, A Ashley-Cooper, B Barnes, D Ioane; Q Cooper, W Genia; J Slipper, T Polota Nau, S Ma'afu, J Horwill (capt), N Sharpe, S Higginbotham, D Pocock, B McCalman.
Replacements: S Faingaa (for Polota Nau, 52), B Alexander (for Ma'afu, 59), R Simmons (for Sharpe, 46), R Samo (temp for Higginbotham, 30-33), L Burgess (for Genia, 67), A Faingaa (for Cooper, 20), R Horne (for Beale, 10).
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)


Stargazers could catch a glimpse of a strawberry moon on Monday night if the clouds give way.

It's extra special as this is the first strawberry moon in almost 50 years to happen at the same time as the summer solstice.
The low angle of the moon at this time of year means its light must go through thicker, warmer air - which can lead to an amber glow.
It hasn't happened at the same time as the longest day of the year since 1967.
The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. It's named after the Latin word "solstitium", which means "sun standing still".
It means that from Monday onwards, the hours of sunlight are going to start getting less and less.
The shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice, falls on 21 December this year.


Trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has restarted after being suspended for more than three hours due to a technical fault.

The NYSE has yet to give full details of the problem, but emphasised that it was not the result of a cyber hack.
Other exchanges, including Nasdaq, reported no problems and were trading normally.
Earlier, United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal's website reported major technical problems.
However, US Homeland Security said the issues appeared unrelated and were not the result of "nefarious" activity.
Shares were generally lower before the suspension, and continued to fall once full trading resumed.
The Dow Jones closed 1.5% lower, or 261 points, to 17,515, while the S&P 500 shed 1.7%, or 34 points, at 2,046. The tech-rich Nasdaq, 1.8% lower, or 87 points, ended at 4,909.
Trading was halted just after 1130am ET, prompting a NYSE statement: "We're currently experiencing a technical issue that we're working to resolve as quickly as possible.
"We will be providing further updates as soon as we can, and are doing our utmost to produce a swift resolution, communicate thoroughly and transparently, and ensure a timely and orderly market re-open."
The NYSE tweeted later that it was an internal technical issue, not a cyber attack.
The White House said that President Barack Obama was briefed, and the Securities and Exchange Commission said it was "closely monitoring the situation".
The problem followed technical glitches at WSJ.com, the Wall Street Journal's website, and at United Airlines.
United Airlines said that a computer error had forced it to ground its flights in the US for the second time in recent weeks. The carrier blamed a "network connectivity issue" for the latest fault.
More than 800 United flights were delayed and about 60 were cancelled, but services were now returning to normal.
WSJ.com is now operating normally.
US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the issues reported by United and the NYSE were apparently not related to "nefarious" activity.
"I have spoken to the CEO of United, Jeff Smisek, myself. It appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions at United and the stock exchange were not the result of any nefarious actor," Mr Johnson said.
He was less clear about the problems at WSJ.com, but noted that the site "is in fact up again".


Staff at a police station in East Yorkshire got a shock when an unexploded device from the Boer War was handed in at the front counter.

Goole police station had to be evacuated as a result of the unusual donation, which was at first thought to be a World War Two shell.
Humberside Police said the offending item was a live explosive round about 6ins (15cm) long and 2ins (5cm) wide.
Army experts made the device safe and the station reopened at 17:15 GMT.
It was closed for about three hours.
The first Boer War was in 1880-81 and the further war of 1899-1902 is sometimes also called the South African War.


Some serious complaints made by a Labour MP over the hospital care given to her husband before his death have been rejected following a review.

Ann Clwyd criticised Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, claiming Owen Roberts died "like a battery hen".
Although that and 20 other allegations out of 31 were not upheld, the independent investigation did find he died of hospital-induced pneumonia.
Ms Clwyd maintained she would be "vindicated".
Results of the review show nine of her allegations were entirely upheld and one partially.
But 17 were rejected, 11 were not upheld due to insufficient evidence and two were rejected because of insufficient information.
A second independent review is now taking place to examine the findings.
Among the upheld allegations in the report were responses to the following comments by Ms Clwyd:
However, those allegations not accepted by the investigation included claims by Ms Clwyd:
Other allegations not accepted included "almost every request I made was ignored or dismissed" and "I saw a nurse in the corridor and asked her why my husband wasn't in intensive care. She just said, 'There are lots worse than him'".
Up until now, the results of the investigation - carried out a year ago - went unpublished.
But parts of the report were released under a Freedom of Information request.
Ms Clwyd told BBC Wales the report summary should not have been made public, especially while another investigation is under way. She disputed there was insufficient evidence for her claims, and said she had additional evidence.
She said: "I think that when the other investigation is concluded then my views will be substantially vindicated."
By Tomos LivingstoneBBC Wales political correspondent
This case has led to a huge political row.
We ended up with the extraordinary situation of a Labour MP, Ann Clwyd, being criticised by the Labour First Minister, Carwyn Jones, for failing, in his view, to provide evidence to back up her claims.
At the same time, we recently had the Welsh Conservative Party conference in Llangollen and delegates there standing and applauding Ann Clwyd for the work she had done campaigning for better standards of care in the health service.
There is a general election of course coming up next year - health care standards are already a central part of that campaign, not least perceived differences in standards between Wales and England.
So we are going to hear a lot more about the political row this case has caused and we are going to hear a lot more about the individual case itself, I think, with a second investigation now on its way.
The health board has denied breaching confidentiality and said the details released were statements already in the public domain.
A health board spokesman said: "We would like to make quite clear that the health board has not released the full report and it is not our intention to breach any confidentiality.
"The investigation into Ms Clywd's concerns was overseen by an expert independent panel and completed in April 2013. Since then the health board has received a number of requests under Freedom of Information legislation to release that report. As part of that standard process Ms Clwyd's permission was sought to release the full report but that was refused."
The spokesman said it sought legal advice before releasing the summary.
He said: "Based on that advice the health board believes it would be in breach of its statutory duty not to release the summary report."
The release of the report summary follows a dispute between Ms Clwyd and the Labour Welsh government.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has told Assembly Members the MP provided "unattributable" comments about the NHS that "can't be investigated".
But Ms Clwyd insisted she had provided Mr Jones with a comprehensive summary of complaints raised.
Ms Clwyd led a UK government-commissioned inquiry on how NHS hospitals in England handle complaints and said she also received hundreds of letters from Welsh patients outlining poor experiences they had suffered.


Taking a private aircraft can be a surprisingly cheap way of travelling.

The flight I took from the small aerodrome of Benavente, near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, to Braga, a city 300km further north, took around one hour and twenty minutes. The cost for a single passenger in the tiny two-person aeroplane: €35 (£25) return.
That was a demo flight arranged by Skyuber. The Portuguese company has developed a mobile application to allow private pilots to find passengers for their flights and share costs with them. It works in much the same way as carpooling websites.
Despite its name, Skyuber has no connection to the popular taxi-hailing Uber app that allows users to book a car and driver. And the founders say they don't want to compete with private jet companies and low cost airlines.
"It's a booking service, matching pilots with empty seats to people wanting to fly," explains co-founder Carlos Oliveira, a 38-year-old entrepreneur and investor, who sold his first start-up to Microsoft. His business partner is Joao Paulo Girbal, a 53-year-old former Microsoft manager, who now owns a pilot school.
In the narrow niche it operates in, Skyuber is another example of how the sharing economy offers a new way for people to monetise excess resources, such as seats in their cars or rooms in their houses. Just like Uber and Airbnb have changed traditional industries, Skyuber's founders would like to give many more people access to flying.
"We want to have the largest aircraft fleet in the world without owning the planes", says Mr Oliveira.
There are plenty of companies being dubbed the new "Uber of the skies" as apps offering the opportunity to book a plane ride proliferate, though most are not adopting the traditional car-pooling model.
Among them JetSmarter, Ubair and Rise in the US, and Victor, a European company that flies globally, allow you to book a private jet and travel in style, some even market their service at transporting pets. It's less expensive than owning your own plane, but the services are still aimed at the well-heeled.
Other companies such as Surf Air charge fixed monthly fees for Californians hoping to avoid the local ground level traffic.
If you prefer to travel by helicopter, that's available too in places. Blade offers helicopters for hire in New York and even Uber itself - the firm that runs the car app - has trialled helicopter-pooling at the Cannes film festival this year.
But America's Federal Aviation Authority has grounded Flytenow and Airpooler, US services that were operating a similar service to Skyuber's cost-sharing model, citing regulations on carrying paying passengers.
Skyuber is targeting people who may need to do a short flight, but also those who just want the experience of flying in a small plane in the seat next to the pilot.
"It is for enthusiasts and for everyone else who up until now didn't have access to this," says Mr Oliveira.
Peter Foggin, a long time pilot and director of Kairos Aviation, a UK company that sells planes, acknowledges "flight costs are always an issue, so cost sharing is a great idea". However, he notes, "the challenge is to be able to create journeys that suit the pilot and the passenger".
Others have tried before to establish similar businesses, including in the US, but none have really taken off, in part due to regulatory hurdles.
Some other online services and apps allow users to book private planes and a pilot. Those flights, even if done in private jets, are considered commercial flights and may legally transport passengers for profit. Pilots on Skyuber, however, may only share costs with people they fly with.
This means individual pilots, rather than the firm itself, are responsible for safety and insurance. Skyuber asks pilots for a copy of their license and medical certificates, and it also reviews each aircraft's legal documents. But the company states that, being just a booking platform, it's up to pilots to observe all safety and aviation rules, and to decide whether, and how, to operate each flight.
The flight from Benavente to Braga cost approximately half the price of a return train ticket. But passengers still have to find a means of transportation from the city centre out to the tiny airport where this kind of light aircraft takes off and lands. And there is unlikely to be much choice over a return flight.
Passengers also need to be prepared for a trip with fewer amenities than in a train or on a commercial flight: no air conditioning, which was definitely a problem for my trip on a hot afternoon (flying at a higher altitude and opening a tiny window were the two options suggested by the pilot to cool down the cockpit). When flying low, there was a lot of bumping, which caused some nausea. The engine was loud and communication with the pilot had to be done through the radio system, in spite of the fact we were sitting very close. Of course, there's very little space and no toilets. The view is much better, though.
Moreover not all flights would be as cheap as the one I took. Aircrafts with capacity for up to six people can be registered on the platform. But the larger the aircraft, the more fuel it will consume and some of the aircraft operate on more expensive fuel. Some airfields charge planes for taking off and landing, which can add €10 or €20 to the price.
There are no transactions between pilot and riders. Users pay through Skyuber's platform. The company charges a 20% fee (plus VAT) of the payment the pilot receives.
Just as in other parts of the sharing economy, the app enables users to rate pilots. Pilots can also rate their passengers and turn down anyone troublesome. Mr Oliveira says this is for safety reasons, as the pilot always makes the last call regarding whether to take off or not. If a flight is cancelled, nothing is charged.
The company says there are currently around 1,400 pilots signed up, and around 7,000 would-be passengers.
Paulo Almeida, a flight instructor who signed up to use Skyuber, sees it as "an opportunity to share the emotion of flying". But he also says it may bring safety benefits, as it makes it cheaper for amateur pilots to maintain their skills. "When fuel prices and taxes went up, some pilots stopped flying as many hours as advisable", he says.


Defender Jonas Olsson says West Bromwich Albion have taken an important step towards securing their Premier League status after a long-awaited win at Everton.

The Baggies' 1-0 victory was their first since 2 January and moved them eight points clear of the bottom three.
"It was nice to get three points and create a bit of a gap to the bottom," the Swede, 32, told BBC WM 95.6.
"The title race is wide open and so is the relegation battle."
Albion had gone five league games without a win since beating Stoke 2-1 at The Hawthorns and now prepare to face title contenders Leicester City, Manchester City and top-four-chasing Manchester United at the start of March.
"They're all hard games - everyone's fighting," he said. "From experience you know they're going to be tough for everybody.
"But we've been doing well at home and hopefully we can get over the line sooner or later."


Scotland's political leaders have highlighted policies on poverty and the Trident nuclear weapons system during a day of Holyrood election campaigning.

Party leaders spoke out about how they would use the Scottish Parliament's new powers to help the poorest in society and support local businesses.
Nicola Sturgeon addressed the annual meeting of the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee, telling trade unionists that an SNP government would "use every power" to tackle poverty and inequality.
The SNP leader said if re-elected she would use Holyrood's new powers to make social security fairer, led by a Fairer Scotland Action Plan.
She said: "We did not argue for the new powers to use them in search of one day's headlines, we argued for them so we could address the poverty and worklessness that has lingered in some of our communities for far too long."
Ms Sturgeon also said she would reappoint an Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality - although the SNP has faced criticism for delaying its response to the findings of the last poverty advisor until after the Holyrood election.
Kezia Dugdale pledged to "stop the cuts that would trap a generation in poverty" while campaigning at a foodbank in Dumbarton.
The Scottish Labour leader said the next Scottish government had "a moral duty to break from Tory austerity".
Ms Dugdale also confirmed that opposition to the Trident nuclear weapons system will be included in Labour's election manifesto.
During a BBC Scotland radio phone-in programme, Ms Dugdale said there were "very mixed views" within Scottish Labour when she took over as leader, but said this had been settled through a "healthy democratic debate" and vote at last year's party conference.
Ruth Davidson underlined her ambition to be the leader of opposition at Holyrood during a speech in Perth.
The Scottish Conservative leader said the SNP were "a long way in front" in polls, and said her "realistic approach" was to "provide the strong opposition our country needs".
Ms Davidson also attacked Ms Dugdale's "bizarre" position on Trident, saying the Labour leader did not believe in her own policies.
She said: "Nothing shows the mess the current Labour party finds itself in more than its tortuous position on our national defence."
Willie Rennie voiced his support for small businesses while visiting Buckthorns House in Upper Largo.
The Lib Dem leader helped Fife Food Ambassador Christopher Trotter cook a meal using local produce, saying his party would work to change procurement rules to boost smaller food businesses.
He said: "Our small businesses sell some of the best food and drink in the world but at present, the way that the government chooses to buy produce locks them out of public contracts that would help them grow.
"We need to end the big business comes first mentality that has characterised the SNP government."
The "left alliance" of Rise published its manifesto at a launch event in Glasgow.
The party has issued a challenge to other pro-independence parties to back a second referendum within the term of the next parliament.
It has also proposed a "living income" for carers, a minimum income for public sector workers, higher taxes for the rich, free public transport, and the break-up of Police Scotland.