Photo: RTÉ It was announced yesterday that Cora Staunton has returned to the Mayo ladies senior football panel and will be involved with Peter Leahy’s team as they embark on their championship campaign this summer. For Cora it’ll be yet another tilt at the championship – she was involved at this level for the first time at the tender age […]
Image: @Mayo_LGFA The Mayo ladies this afternoon kept up their push for a League semi-final place when they beat Donegal by 5-14 to 4-12 in a Round 7 meeting at Swinford. The teams were tied at 3-7 apiece after a ding-dong opening half, and a fourth goal by the visitors early in the second half saw them lead briefly. Once […]
Photo: @ConnachtGAA It’s Saturday evening and there’s still no sign of a team announcement from our side ahead of tomorrow’s crunch NFL Division One clash against Kildare at St Conleth’s Park, Newbridge (throw-in 2pm). Not to worry – here are a few other bits and pieces, some related to tomorrow’s match, some not, to keep you going. Stuff of relevance […]
Photo: Herald Sun I know there’s been some talk about this for a while but when it was confirmed earlier on today that Cora Staunton is heading Down Under to try her hand at Aussie Rules it still came as a bit of a shock. After all, Cora has been a fixture on the county’s ladies football team for the […]
Photo: The Score (Ryan Byrne/Inpho) As has already been mentioned in the comments, a thoroughly miserable week for the county has just got worse with the news, which was confirmed earlier today, that this year’s minor captain Cian Hanley is set to join big brother Pearse at AFL club Brisbane Lions in Australia. Pearse was an enormous loss to us […]
That noted Paper of Record (viz. De Heddild) is reporting that Aidan O’Shea didn’t sign a contract with any Aussie Rules club ahead of yesterday’s deadline and so it looks as if he will, indeed, be back in the Northern Hemisphere shortly and will be available to play for the county in 2010. This should come as no surprise to […]
Hogan Stand has a report (which, by the looks of it, was culled from the Star) about how Aidan O’Shea’s Aussie rules trial is progressing. The report states that, with next Wednesday’s deadline for international rookie signings just around the corner (so it is – sure, it’s Thursday night already Down Under), Aidan “could [emphasis added] come under pressure to […]
Ed McGreal has an exclusive in the Mayo News today (with thanks to Jucer for the tip-off) that Aidan O’Shea is heading off to Australia this coming Sunday for a trial with two Aussie Rules clubs: read it and weep here. If Aidan does head off into the sunset, then it’s obviously a hammer blow which will set the county […]
Another dull and dreary November Monday, which makes apposite the question once framed by Myles Na gCopaleen, i.e. what won’t we feel ’till Christmas? The answer, in case you haven’t heard this (very) old one before is “it”. Work it out for yourselves. It being Monday, I find that there’s nothing better than a blast of plain speaking from Uncle […]
There’s a report doing the rounds from Australia, with some discussion on it here, about the current whereabouts of Tom Parsons. You’ll recall the Mayo News reported last week that Tom was on his way home after the lovey-dovey international rules series having declared he had no interest in trying his hand at the professional game Down Under. That piece […]