It’s midweek once more, Sunday’s dramatic draw with the Rossies disappearing from sight in the rearview mirror while up ahead Monday’s replay against the same opposition draws ever closer. As it does, the next instalment in what is already in so many respects an incredible championship campaign for the county is set to be unveiled. When Monday comes around, Roscommon’s […]
The crowd in the stand at MacHale Park rose in unison in the dying moments of Saturday evening’s rollercoaster qualifier tie against Derry as Footballer of the Year Lee Keegan was helped off the field. He was hobbling badly at that stage, raising obvious concerns about whether or not he’d be okay to go back into battle once more just […]
Photo: boylantalkssports.com It’s been announced that Joe McQuillan will ref Sunday week’s Connacht SFC semi-final between ourselves and Galway. We’ve obviously had plenty of experience – good as well as bad, it must be said – of the Cavan official down the years. The most recent match we’ve played that he’s reffed was our League match against Roscommon under the […]
Image: @MayoGAA Saturday’s edging ever closer and with it the start of this year’s National Football League campaign. Our Division One opener against Monaghan throws in that evening under the lights at MacHale Park at 7pm. It was confirmed yesterday – report in the Irish Examiner here – that Aidan O’Shea is definitely out of contention to start on Saturday […]
Photo: RTÉ (Inpho/Cathal Noonan) This one has already got a run in the comments but, just for the record, it was confirmed earlier today that Maurice Deegan will be the referee for Saturday week’s All-Ireland final replay between our lads and Dublin. It’ll be the Laois official’s second decider – he did the 2008 one between Tyrone and Kerry and he […]
Photo: GAA.ie As has just been mentioned in the comments, the GAA have this afternoon announced that Cork’s Conor Lane has been appointed to ref this year’s All-Ireland final. It’s the Banteer/Lyre clubman’s first final and it’s quite a step up for him because, as far as I know, he’s never even reffed a semi-final up ’till now either. Our […]
Photo: @ConnachtGAA Just a quick one, this, to provide a few links to reports on the minors’ match last night. The only proper account of the game, which our lads won by 4-11 to 1-8, is provided by Colm Gannon in the Mayo Advertiser. His match report is here. Round-up reports, covering both our match and the other semi-final between Galway […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com Okay, that’s enough resting on the laurels following the win in Clones. It’s Wednesday already and, along with remembering to put the bins out later on, it’s time to be thinking about the match against Kerry on Sunday. This is the second of our three home games in this year’s League campaign. The hurlers are the warm-up act […]
So the week’s flown by and already we’ve reached the day before the replay of our All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin. Are we nearly ready for it? We’ve little choice but to be. Last night it was a case of another night, another Diarmuid Connolly appeal, the second unsuccessful one he’s now made against the one-match ban proposed by the CCCC […]
Photo: @funshona1976 (via Twitter) Holy Mother of God, not only is it Wednesday already but it’s half-way through the day as well. As Declan Nerney might say, stop the world and let me off for a breather there boss. Right, I think everyone needs a good guffaw to start proceedings today. You’ll recall, no doubt, the imbecilic stupidity that was […]