The draw was made today for this year’s Nicky Rackard Cup, hurling’s fourth tier Championship in which we’ll once again be competing this summer. Last year we lost out narrowly in the decider to Donegal and that’s who we face first in this year’s competition. I’d always thought that the Rackard winners compete at Christy Ring level the following year […]
Just one collective training session done so far and we’ve suffered what looks to be the county’s first significant player injury of the year. The Mayo News is reporting (here) that last year’s captain Aidan O’Shea picked up what is being described as “a worrying knee injury” at the first collective training session of the year, which was undertaken by […]
It really is great to be back thinking ahead to football games once again. Proper matches, with plenty at stake, even if we’re all going to have to watch the action on TV. At least there will be action to watch and matches to talk about. Yesterday evening’s Connacht SFC draw started all the talk, as we now have a […]
The draw for this year’s Connacht SFC Championship was made on RTÉ a bit earlier on this evening. In it, we’ve been handed a quarter-final meeting with Sligo, which will take place at Markievicz Park. The winners then face Leitrim in the semi-final, with Galway up against Roscommon in the other semi. We can’t have any complaints about this draw […]
No doubt you know all about the Laochra Mhaigh Eo fundraising initiative that’s in full swing at the minute – further details on it are here – the aim of which is to help raise funds for the pitch resurfacing works that are set to be carried out at MacHale Park this year. In a tie-in with the initiative, Midwest […]
The draws for the various provincial Championships in hurling and football are set to be made next week. The draws will be made live on RTÉ, split across the Morning Ireland show on Radio One and the station’s Six-One TV news programme. It’s on the latter programme, next Monday evening, that the Connacht Championship draw will be made. They might […]
With Covid-19 restrictions once more easing and the football set to resume shortly, all eyes are now on who the county’s football teams will be playing and when. The LGFA were first out of the traps in this respect, when they published their fixture details for the upcoming LGFA National League campaign that’s set to get going in late May. […]
With no football matches to talk about the Mayo News football podcast has remained in dry dock so far this year. Now that we have a clear view of when the action is set to resume, however, we’re ready to get the podcast revved up and motoring once again. James Horan remarked recently that it’ll be a “shotgun start” to […]
The GAA today published its updated Master Fixtures calendar for 2021, confirming that the year’s inter-county football action will get underway in the middle of May. The National Football League starts on the weekend of 15th/16th May, five weeks from Sunday, and, as signalled previously, it’ll be run this year on a regionalised basis, comprising groups of just four teams. […]
As we gradually edge our way out of the madness, induced by Covid lockdowns, the mind turns slowly back to football. For years, Mayo GAA has been a passion that has consumed us when the action was underway and that gave us serious withdrawal symptoms when the year’s action was over. Throughout the last twelve months, the radical changes in […]