Every now and then it hits me forcefully that the blog really has been in existence rather a long time. Since early 2007, in fact, and so this means that for matches against our major rivals, there’s a fair bit of source material here on the blog from matches going back quite a number of years. As we await the […]
I still remember the day I fell in love with Gaelic football: it was July 19th, 2009. On the previous afternoon, my husband and I drove from his hometown of Westport, Co. Mayo, through Delphi in Connemara to Galway City. All along the way, on houses in every village, outside every roadside pub or Texaco, the competing county flags of […]
Donal Vaughan said today it was “with a heavy heart” that he was announcing his retirement from inter-county football at the age of 32. It’s a sentiment that many Mayo supporters will share, as another member of the consistently competitive team James Horan fashioned in his first tenure as Mayo manager calls time on his inter-county career. Having represented the […]
It’s a blessing and a curse that the games are coming along so rapidly at us in this year’s Championship. This week-to-week-to-week schedule has meant that we’d no time at all to luxuriate in having bested Galway for the first time since 2016 but now it means equally we’ve no period in which we’re condemned to brood on Sunday’s hosing […]
Photo: RTÉ News broke yesterday evening on Midwest Radio that Barry Moran has decided to call time on his inter-county career. The 32 year-old Castlebar Mitchels clubman was involved in the senior panel for the last thirteen years, during which time he featured in four All-Ireland finals and won six Connacht senior championship medals. The story is widely covered today […]
It’s been a fair while since our championship season was defined by how we got on against the neighbours but, having played them down the years a grand total of 85 times in the championship since our first clash back in 1902, our frequent summer clashes against Galway certainly makes the fixture our greatest rivalry. A proper rivalry it is […]
Like the Late, Late Toy Show, the appearance of all these temporary skating rinks, hairshirt budgets and the return of Operation Freeflow, County Secretary Sean Feeney’s annual pronouncements have become part of the jolly pre-Yuletide landscape. The Indo has a piece this morning summarising (in a scrupulously fair manner, no doubt – this is the Indo we’re talking about after […]
Not only was it rather nice to get to leave Croke Park yesterday in a good mood while attired in a Mayo jersey, it was also good to be able to relax after the minor match was over with our place on All-Ireland final day secured in order to watch the senior game from the perspective of a disinterested neutral. […]
The rain never showed up at Croke Park today and, to a large extent, neither did Tyrone who, in the end, gave up their quest for a shot at back-to-back All-Irelands in a tame enough manner. The five-point margin of defeat flattered them a little, I thought, and, but for John Bannon’s latest (and, one hopes, last) shocking performance with […]
Okay, the dust has started to settle following our exit from this year’s championship and while this doesn’t mean that I’m exactly straining at the leash for the 2010 FBD campaign to get going, it does afford the opportunity to look back on the year’s action at senior level in terms of what we’ve achieved and where we go to […]