The GAA are still resolutely refusing to show their hand on when and where the Round 3 fixtures in the All-Ireland SFC group stage will be played but the dates for our two LGFA All-Ireland SFC group stage matches were confirmed yesterday and so too today were details of our Minor All-Ireland quarter-final against Monaghan. In the LGFA Championship we’re […]
Two provincial finals played in Ulster today confirmed Mayo’s next opponents in both the LGFA Senior football Championship and the Minor football Championship. The LGFA Ulster Championship was won today by Donegal, who beat Armagh in the final at Owenbeg by 1-10 to 0-9. The result was a bit of a surprise and it means that Armagh will be in […]
The warm glow of victory in Killarney hasn’t yet subsided properly – although Jim McGuinness’s asinine nonsense in the Irish Times this morning about our “lack of a marquee forward” injected a stab of grumpiness in my mood today – but already the focus is shifting towards this coming weekend and more Mayo matches. It’s a weekend off for the […]
Both matches played today involving teams from the county ended in defeats, both of them to Ulster opposition. In camogie, the county’s first round game in Division 3A was away to Armagh and that one finished in favour of the Orchard County on a scoreline of 5-12 to 2-5. The gap between the teams was only three points at the […]
When I did that post the other evening about matches involving Mayo that are on this coming weekend, I missed one game that’s taking place. At that stage I wasn’t aware that the Camogie Leagues are getting underway at the weekend but now I am and so there’s another Mayo match to add to the list, this one taking place […]
The county’s hurlers are enduring difficulties in this year’s NHL Division 3A campaign and their troubles deepened this afternoon as they fell to their second loss of the campaign. It’s a defeat that sees them rooted to the bottom of the table after three rounds, with successive relegations now a very real danger for them. Only last summer, the county […]
It’s only Monday but already we need to start thinking about the matches coming up next weekend. There are three of them, two on Saturday and one on Sunday, and here are the essential details about these games. First a heads-up on the U20 footballers, who aren’t playing this weekend. The original fixture schedule for the Leo Murphy Cup had […]
The most recent time before yesterday that Mayo had played Armagh at the Athletic Grounds was when the two counties clashed there in a Division One tie back in 2012. We won that game by six points and the only survivor from our team from that night who also took place in yesterday’s dramatic draw was Aidan O’Shea. Aidan fairly […]
It’s two draws from two starts for us in this year’s National League campaign. Here’s the online coverage of yesterday’s stalemate with Armagh at a packed Athletic Grounds. Locals: Connaught Telegraph, Belfast Live. Nationals: Irish Examiner, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish News, Belfast Telegraph. Others: GAA, RTÉ (live blog, match report, Kevin McStay quotes), BBC, The 42, Sports Joe. Photos: […]
When goalkeeper Colm Reape planted a cracking free between the posts from nearly fifty yards out with just four minutes of normal time left, we looked home and hosed against Armagh. Roared on by a raucous home crowd at the Athletic Grounds, however, Armagh bagged five points without reply – all of them from placed balls – to claim a […]