We’ve had so many incredible days out following this Mayo team. Most of us have memories to last a lifetime from the totemic clashes we’ve been involved in over the past decade. The team have us given so much down the years and today – now infused with a significant dash of youth – they’ve done it again, giving us […]
It’s Connacht final day but not as we know it. While there’s nothing novel about Mayo squaring up to Galway in a Nestor Cup decider, doing so at Croke Park is certainly a new development. But Covid has wrought change in so many areas that this one doesn’t even count as remarkable. So Croke Park it is. The match throws […]
Mayo’s camogie team began their Nancy Murray Cup campaign this afternoon and they did so in fine style, recording a huge win over Donegal. The match was played up in Buncrana this afternoon and Mayo came away from the trip north with a whopping 7-26 to 1-1 win. By the sounds of it, it was one-way traffic from the word […]
The Mayo LGFA team lost today for the first time in this year’s Senior football Championship. Back in Ballinamore, where they overcame Monaghan in that dramatic free-kick shootout last weekend, they came off second best against Armagh who emerged with a 3-14 to 0-12 win. Like the hurling game earlier on today, I was only able to follow this one […]
The county’s hurlers this afternoon qualified for the final of the Nicky Rackard Cup as they saw off the challenge of Armagh at a sun-splashed Páirc Seán MacDiarmada in Carrick-on-Shannon. Trailing at half-time, Mayo came with a powerful surge after the break to claim a fairly comfortable 2-23 to 2-9 win. I was busy with other Saturday stuff earlier on […]
Mayo’s Minor Championship campaign started and finished after little over an hour’s football at Dr Hyde Park this evening. Roscommon banged in four first half goals in this Connacht MFC quarter-final and with that buffer they were able to see out the win with relative ease. They beat our lads by 4-13 to 2-12 at the finish. I was otherwise […]
10:49am: “We’re sorry, but we couldn’t find any events” 10.51am: “You are now in line……………1,759 people in front of you” 11.07am: “You are now in line……………689 people in front of you” God, I really hate queuing for Mayo tickets online. Technology and I are not friends at the best of times. Give me a physical ticket put into my hand […]
We’ve named our starting fifteen for Sunday’s Connacht SFC final against Galway at Croke Park (throw-in 1.30pm). Here it is: Mayo (Connacht SFC final v Galway, 25/7/2021): Robbie Hennelly (Breaffy); Lee Keegan (Westport), Padraig O’Hora (Ballina Stephenites), Michael Plunkett (Ballintubber); Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels), Oisín Mullin (Kilmaine), Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore); Matthew Ruane (Breaffy), Conor Loftus (Crossmolina Deel Rovers); Bryan Walsh […]
THE venue for this year’s Connacht final may be novel but it is not unprecedented. All of 98 years ago the replayed provincial final of 1922 between Galway and Sligo was also contested at Croke Park on the last day of September in 1923. As was common in those times, the match in question, which was played in late September […]
It’s good to be back. Back writing for the blog. Back in a Connacht Final. Back against Galway. Back in Croke Park. The last one might tickle some people up the wrong way and in any other circumstance I’d be up in arms too but, for one year, we’ll take the road trip and loss of home advantage. In truth, […]