Our 2011 inter-county season finished up in Gaelic Park, New York, yesterday where the lads had an easy win over New York in the FBD Final. Stateside Dean was in the Bronx for the game and I’m delighted to welcome him into the guest slot to provide this report on the action. I’d also like to thank An Fear Mór […]
The lads obviously weren’t taking any chances in Gaelic Park in New York a bit earlier on and they clearly were in no mood to get sucked into a second battle this year against overseas opposition. 4-5 to 0-3 to the good against the Exiles at half-time, we ran out 7-12 to 2-8 winners in the end to seal a […]
We’re into October and the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and the ban on collective training (for those goody-goody counties who abide by it) is but round the corner from us now. Strange, then, to think that we have a senior inter-county match taking place this coming Sunday and stranger still that it’s on in New York where, for the second […]
As the dust began to settle after our All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kerry a fortnight ago a few contributors to the debate on gaaboard.com from outside the county expressed some puzzlement over the general feelings of satisfaction being voiced by the Mayo lads over how we’d done against the Kingdom. How could we possibly be happy having just lost an […]
Back into the guest slot comes Edwin McGreal who provides this account of tonight’s 1-14 to 0-11 win over NUIG in the FBD ‘Home’ Final. The subdued nature of Andy Moran’s acceptance speech told you plenty. Andy is a very enthusiastic Mayo footballer and was honoured to captain his county for the FBD Final. But he was far from getting excited upon […]
NUIG have named their line-up for tomorrow night’s FBD final and it contains plenty of familiar names. Here’s the full panel that John Maughan will be coming to McHale Park with: NUIG (FBD ‘Home’ Final v Mayo, 11/2/2011): Nathan King (Galway); Ciaran McDonald (Tipperary), Kieran O Connor (Kerry), Ronan Rochford (Mayo); Peadar Gardiner (Mayo), Ciaran Conroy (Mayo), Josh Moore (Galway); Stephen Gilmartin (Sligo – captain), Denis Coroon (Westmeath); Mark […]
Details of the starting fifteen and subs for tomorrow night’s FBD ‘home’ final (well, it is at home isn’t it?) at McHale Park (throw-in 7.30 pm) have just been announced. Here’s the full list: Mayo (FBD ‘Home’ Final v NUIG, 11/2/2011): Robert Hennelly (Breaffy); Cathal Hallinan (Ballintubber), David Killeen (Ballinrobe), Chris Barrett (Belmullet); Lee Keegan (Westport), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis), Ruaidhri […]
It’s another Monday morning and there’s another bundle of match reports and stuff on yesterday’s facile FBD victory over Leitrim to go through. First up, as always, is Colm Gannon’s report for the Mayo Advertiser and once again this week he’s supplemented his written piece with some post-match audio from James Horan. Like last week’s one, this bit of audio […]
It was one-way traffic for the lads in Ballinamore this afternoon, where a 1-11 to 0-2 win booked us our place in this year’s FBD final. The decider takes place under the lights at McHale Park on Friday, 11th February (throw-in 7.30 pm), where NUIG – who are, don’t forget, managed by a certain J Maughan and feature a number […]
Our final group match in this year’s FBD takes place in Ballinamore tomorrow afternoon (throw-in 2 pm) where we face Leitrim for the first time in ages. I think the last time that we came into contact with the Ridge County was as long ago as the Connacht semi-final of 2006 where we managed to extricate ourselves from Carrick-on-Shannon with just […]