Here’s something to get the juices flowing ahead of the weekend, at a time when we’re all counting down the days to the return of inter-county action. This is part of the Laochra Mhaigh Eo initiative, the aim of which is to help raise funds for the pitch resurfacing works that are set to be carried out at MacHale Park […]
Regardless of how the 2011 League campaign had gone, Mayo’s first year under new manager James Horan was ultimately going to be judged by what kind of championship we had. A Connacht title followed by defeat with honour in Croke Park, preferably not at the quarter-final stage, was probably the height of our ambitions going into that championship season. That […]
For any new stars debuting on any GAA team you’re instantly on a mission to make a name for yourself the first chance you get. The time you have been dreaming about all your life has finally come to show people what you can do. 2020 was a year like no other but it was a year where we got […]
Although Mayo’s calamitous defeat in the qualifiers to Longford at the end of June 2010 didn’t – as had happened to me in the blog’s first year back in 2007 – leave me bereft of topics to talk about, it did leave me in a daze over the weeks that followed. After Longford, the Mayo GAA story didn’t remain static. […]
The death was announced earlier today of former Mayo GAA player, referee and administrator PJ McGrath. He was in his late Seventies. The Kilmaine clubman served as Mayo County Board Chairman from 1997 to 2002, having previously played for the county at Junior level, as well as being a Senior panellist in 1966. He ran for President of the GAA […]
Happy Vernal Equinox, people. In normal times, my spirits tend to lift at this point of the year as we start to get close to when the days become ridiculously long and the dark evenings are no more than a distant memory. It’s a bit harder these days to feel the same kind of positive vibes but at least summer […]
Once all the year-by-year results were collected, with team and scorer details included where available, and put online here on the blog, I thought that was that in relation to the results archive. In terms of making the archive available for people to browse through, the job was done alright. But that meant its full potential remained untapped, as it […]
Several different strands came together the morning in February 2007 that I brought into being the phenomenon that became known as the Mayo GAA Blog. At one level, what I did that day was just a flight of fancy, a mere whim, an idea that simply may not have been followed through on at all. It wouldn’t have been the […]
With the football still on hold, the Mayo News football podcast has remained in dry dock so far this year. That doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the podcast, though, as there’s plenty going on behind the scenes ahead of its return for 2021. The enforced break from live action gives us a chance to stand back and think about where […]
One way of thinking about how individuals live their lives – it’s certainly a method I often use to frame my own existence – is to parcel the single contiguous existence into discrete chunks. Childhood and adulthood are obvious divisions, the individual decades are, of course, a handy means for carving up bits of what might be a long life […]