The tickets are on sale, there’s less than a week to go until throw-in. The countdown to this year’s novel Croke Park Connacht final is on in earnest so let’s take a quick look at what the neighbours have been up to of late. The most recent time our paths crossed was when we saw them off by the minimum […]
In the absence of the all-time top scorer in the Championship from our ranks this summer, it has fallen to the younger players to fill the void. Cillian is, of course, irreplaceable and so playing without him means we have to do things differently, with our two Championship games to date – admittedly against very modest opposition – seeing a […]
It’s good to be back. Today was the first Mayo match I’d been to in 16 months, the first since Covid struck, and while today’s match-day experience was very different and it was a good bit wetter than I’d have liked in the first half it still felt bloody great to be there. So first off I’d like to pay […]
We’re back in Connacht Championship action next Sunday. Our provincial semi-final clash with Leitrim throws in at MacHale Park at 2pm that afternoon and Longford’s Fergal Kelly is reffing it. The match will be broadcast live on RTÉ. Our recent Championship meetings with Leitrim have been like waiting for the proverbial bus to arrive, in that having not met them […]
The first of this year’s Connacht SFC semi-finals takes place on Sunday. Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon is the venue, our old pal Joe McQuillan is the ref for it and he’ll be throwing the ball in there at 1.15pm. The match will be shown live on RTÉ. 2021 has, so far at any rate, been an unhappy one for […]
Seeing a player put in a storming performance at some stage in his first Championship season isn’t all that rare and we’ve been fortunate to witness a fair few examples of this over the past decade. But I’m struggling to think of another example where a player making his full Championship debut put in a Man of the Match performance […]
It’s the morning after the day before, a day when Mayo came out of the traps fast to blow Sligo away in the opening round of this year’s Connacht Championship. It was as good a performance from James Horan’s team as anyone could have wished for in advance and that’s pretty much reflected in the media coverage of the game. […]
In the Melian Dialogue Thucydides wrote that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer as they must.” That observation had more than a little relevance to this afternoon’s lopsided Connacht quarter-final at Markievciz Park. The vast gulf in class between the teams was apparent right from the start of a game that Mayo won by as much […]
Our Connacht Championship opener is on this coming Saturday. Our opponents in this knockout provincial quarter-final draw are Sligo and the game takes place at their patch in Markievicz Park. The match throws in at 4.30pm on Saturday, Down’s Paul Faloon is the ref and it’s live on Sky Sports. We’ve played Sligo a total of 56 times in the […]
We’re back in Division One and the votes are in and counted for the Man of the Match poll on the game in which we won promotion. Oisín Mullin has come out on top in the poll and so he’s our MOTM from yesterday’s game. He was also selected as MOTM by TG4 after the game yesterday. Oisín bagged 25% […]