Photo: Memories thru a lens It’s not often the hurlers gain the limelight on a weekend of Mayo GAA activity, so let’s just enjoy the moment and take whatever positives are going. This NHL Division 2B final was a war of attrition as Mayo and Down went to battle in arctic conditions in Breffni Park. There was nowhere to hide […]
Photo: Memories thru a lens While the vast majority of the blog’s readers will be shuffling to find their seats tomorrow in MacHale Park ahead of Mayo’s football League tie against Tyrone, a small band of fellow Mayo GAA enthusiasts will be getting ready for the throw-in of the NHL Division 2B hurling final. This takes place 100 miles away […]
‘These lads come from counties that couldn’t give a damn about hurling, within provinces that care even less about them’, was the quote from The Sunday Game analyst Ger Loughnane after the Ring/Rackard/Meagher Cup finals a few years ago as Mayo raised the Rackard Cup in Croke Park for the first time in their history. The Feakle clubman calls it […]
Photo: Memories thru a lens (@sportspicsbyciara) Less than a hundred hardy souls turned up at MacHale Park today to watch the Mayo lads open their NHL campaign, but it was the travelling Derry side who came away with the spoils. On reflection Mayo didn’t deserve anything from this game, but could have sneaked a point out of it if more […]
Now that the two points from the the Mayo-Kerry football game are in the bag, attention for the small ball followers turns to today’s National Hurling League opening round tie against Derry in MacHale Park. This one throws in at Castlebar at 2pm this afternoon. This is Mayo’s first competitive game of the season after the Connacht Senior League didn’t […]
When asked for his thoughts on national television after his man-of-the-match performance in the All-Ireland minor football final win of 2013, David Kenny brought the word ‘Un*******believable’ to the attention of the lexicography department of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sadly the Tooreen man’s slip of the tongue didn’t make the OED cut that year, but an air of confidence and […]