Saturday sees us make our sixth successive appearance in the All-Ireland Series, the latest episode in what is an unprecedented period of competitiveness for us in the championship. We’re become used to being still in with a shout for honours come August each year, even if ultimate success remains as elusive as ever for us. When we take the field […]
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 […]
Photo: strandhotellimerick.ie The last metaphorical embers of the Old Year are dying in front of our eyes, our gaze already starting to focus on the New Year that’s set to dawn tomorrow. New Year’s Eve is, of course, a day for looking back and casting a final backward glance from a #mayogaa perspective you’d have to say that, on balance, […]
Image: Seaofgreenandred 2013, with its soaring highs and crashing lows, is almost behind us: two weeks tomorrow is New Year’s Day and once the lads get back from Dubai shortly after that the FBD will have started up and the first of those Club ’51 banners will have been unfurled. But before all that, the above infographic – which comes […]
Photo: @officialgaa Every year the All-Star awards never fail to cause controversy and tonight’s version was no exception. While the first fourteen gongs in the football awards went in the direction expected (from our perspective, Ger Cafferkey losing out to Dublin’s Rory O’Carroll was a bit disappointing but it wasn’t a surprise), there proved to be a sting in the […]
In the wake of last night’s announcement that James Horan will be leading us into 2014, Terry Reilly has a good piece with the boss in today’s Irish Examiner. In it, James has a fair bit to say, both about all the stuff that’s been swirling round in the aftermath of last month’s All-Ireland final but also about his plans […]
There’s been a fair bit of looking back since this year’s All-Ireland final but in this guest piece John Cuffe discusses this year’s campaign, and the lessons we need to learn from it, in the context of the two seasons that preceded it. Photo: likecool.com The start of the 2010 GAA Grand Prix saw the Mayo car caught in a […]
Photo: Irish Examiner Terry Reilly has a piece in today’s Irish Examiner quoting County Board PRO Aiden McLoughlin which gives the clearest indication yet that James Horan will indeed continue as manager for a fourth season. In this report, Aiden McLoughlin states squarely that as far as the Baord are concerned “James will be in charge next season.” Apparently, the […]
The GAA/GPA All-Star nominations list was published late last night and, just like last year, we have ten players on the list. As was also the case twelve months ago the team that beat us in the All-Ireland final – this time Dublin – heads the list with twelve nominations while Ulster champions Monaghan are next on six. Then it’s […]
Photo: @JoeMcCormack via Twitter A full week on now from our latest All-Ireland final defeat and it’s not getting any easier, is it? I did say in the immediate aftermath that this one could well prove to be the hardest one of the lot to take and a week on I’m even stronger of the view that this is how […]