We’re now just over a week away from our first competitive inter-county outing of 2021. After a wait that has often felt like an eternity, the start of the football season seems to be arriving all of a shot. There are a few bits and pieces of interest knocking around at the minute. In no particular order here they are. […]
Mayo GAA tonight ratified Maurice Sheridan as the county’s U20 manager. Both he and former Minor manager Tomás Morley were interviewed for the position this week and following this the Balla native was appointed to the post. The new manager comes into the role with plenty of management and coaching experience, to say nothing of his nine years as a […]
So, it appears pretty much certain that the resumption of inter-county action will happen next weekend. For a brief period last Thursday it looked as if the GAA might be having second thoughts about playing out the remaining fixtures in the National League – a development reported on that day by the Irish Examiner – but this was quickly scotched […]
Mayo’s U20 Championship season for 2020 began and ended on the same day in the wind and the wet at MacHale Park this afternoon. Their elimination from this year’s U20 Connacht Championship happened in the cruellest possible way, as they lost out on a penalty shootout after the teams had finished level after extra-time. The adverse weather was always going […]
There were two Mayo team announcements made earlier today and here they are. First up is the team named for tomorrow’s Connacht U20 Championship quarter-final against Galway at MacHale Park (throw-in 2pm). The starting fifteen for this all-or-nothing provincial Championship knockout tie is as follows: Mayo (Connacht U20 Championship quarter-final v Galway, 8/2/2020): Jamie McNicoholas (Kiltimagh); Jack Coyne (Ballyhaunis, captain), […]
It may only be the start of February but this coming weekend is a big one for the county in footballing terms. We’ve two hugely important games scheduled for the weekend and, while the result of either isn’t going to be decisive in setting the trajectory for us in 2020, at the same time they’re both matches we simply have […]
I know, I said I wouldn’t have the time to do this any more and I may not be able to do it after every game but here, later in the day than heretofore, is a run-down of the coverage on our opening League match of 2020, as well as reports on the other Mayo matches that took place this […]
It was a case of contrasting fortunes for the first two Mayo teams in action this weekend. The county’s U20 footballers rounded off a productive Development League campaign with an emphatic win over Louth in the final of the Leo Murphy Cup competition but the Mayo hurlers were well beaten by Kerry in their opening round NHL Division 2A fixture. […]
Over five months on from our final competitive outing of 2019 James Horan’s Mayo team tonight take the field in their first meaningful game of 2020. A tasty one it is too, with Donegal the opposition at MacCumhaill Park this evening in the opening round of this year’s National League Division One campaign. Ref David Coldrick is set to throw […]
Saturday night sees the long-awaited start of the National Football League – in which we open the defence of the title we won at Croke Park last March – but our Round 1 opener against Donegal at MacCumhaill Park in Ballybofey that evening isn’t the only Mayo-related action on this weekend. Far from it. In fact, there are no fewer […]