The opening weekend of matches in this year’s Mayo Senior, Intermediate and Junior football Championships is over. While yesterday evening’s games were played in decent weather, the wet going this afternoon after a morning of rain in the west made conditions underfoot a good bit trickier. In the SFC defending champions Knockmore got their campaign going yesterday evening with a […]
The sad news was confirmed earlier today of the death yesterday of Paddy Prendergast, who was the last surviving member of the Mayo team that secured back-to-back All-Ireland Championship titles in 1950 and 1951. He was 95 years of age. A native of Ballintubber, Paddy Prendergast first played inter-county football with Donegal, as he was stationed as a Garda in […]
It’s now two weeks on from Mayo’s latest, hugely disappointing All-Ireland final defeat. The debate about how and why the final was lost continues to rumble on, as the county comes to terms with the fact that yet another opportunity to land the Sam Maguire has once again slipped from its grasp. In this episode of the Mayo News football […]
The Senior, Intermediate and Junior club Championships all get underway this coming weekend so I thought it might be worthwhile just to remind everyone about the arrangements for the matches that are taking place tomorrow and Sunday. First, a list of all the matches that are on this weekend in the SFC, IFC and JFC is here. Next, if you’re […]
With the inter-county season now behind us it’s time to consider who was the Mayo GAA Blog Player of the Year for 2021. Past winners of this award – chosen by you – are Cillian O’Connor (twice), Diarmuid O’Connor, Lee Keegan, Andy Moran and Colm Boyle. To compile the shortlist for the Player of the Year award I use the […]
The vitriolic online abuse directed at Mayo players, as well as the county in general, in the wake of our latest All-Ireland final defeat has received a fair bit of airtime over the last few days. While this is welcome, the root cause of this problem – the unmoderated baying that people are able to engage in with impunity on […]
Ahead of the opening round of matches this weekend in the club Championships, Mayo GAA provided some more information today (here) about the games they play to stream live via their Mayo GAA TV service. This coming weekend they’re streaming matches on both Saturday and Sunday. The first of these features Moclair Cup holders Knockmore who open the defence of […]
The Senior, Intermediate and Junior football Championships all get underway within the county next weekend. There are games on both on Saturday (25th) and on Sunday (26th) and, as you’d expect, there’s plenty of choice for anyone itching to see some live action. If you are planning to get to a club Championship game at the weekend then note that […]
The club Championships get going next weekend and, in advance of this, Mayo GAA TV is back online today, with a match being streamed on the service this evening. The game in question is a League one, between Westport and Breaffy, and it’s being streamed live on the Mayo GAA TV service from 5.30pm. The match is free to watch […]
The grim reality of yet another All-Ireland final loss is now sinking in with Mayo supporters, following the county’s defeat to Tyrone in last Saturday’s Sam Maguire decider. As the number of finals lost continues to mount so too does the sense of frustration about Mayo’s repeated inability to take that last, decisive step to glory. In this episode […]