The nominations list for this year’s All-Stars was published earlier this morning. We’ve got six on it this year – Colm Boyle, Keith Higgins, Lee Keegan, Aidan and Seamus O’Shea and Cillian O’Connor – and the list features ten different counties. Kerry, as you’d expect, lead the way with eleven, Donegal and Dublin both have nine, Monaghan have four, Armagh […]
There’s been some discussion in the comments over the last week or so about what’s likely to happen in relation to this year’s All-Stars and with the list of nominations due out any time now I guess it’s as good a time as any to think about this. When I was looking at this last year, a handy starting point […]
Well, that’s it, then. After the worst All-Ireland final in at least a decade – the original ‘puke football’ one of 2003 was probably the last time a contest of such awfulness occurred on football’s biggest day of the year – Sam is heading to Kerry for the 37th time. And if The Sunday Game tonight is anything to go by, the […]
Green and gold will deck the entire stadium but which corner of the country will claim Sam? It will be North v South on Sunday as Donegal and Kerry match up in the biggest sporting occasion on the Irish calendar, the 2014 All-Ireland football final. We may feel grumpy ourselves at not being there and perhaps disillusioned about the whole […]
Today’s an interesting day for us (as well as for Scotland), with the time ticking down to tonight’s 11pm deadline for nominations from clubs for the Mayo manager’s job. I’ve no idea what form the process will take once the deadline passes but I guess it’s at least possible that this time tomorrow we’ll know for definite who’s in the […]
Photo: Joe.ie James Horan’s interview with Michael Gallagher in this week’s Western People was well trailed in advance is being an unmissable read and, based on this piece on it by Malachy Clrekin in the Irish Times (thanks to Davy J and achillmanindublin for the heads-up on this), it’s easy to see why. On the basis of this distilled version of […]
Photo: The Score (Donall Farmer/Inpho) County Board PRO Aiden McLoughlin has told the Mayo News that it’s open season for applicants who fancy taking on the vacant position as manager of the senior football team. He confirmed that the process is still at an early stage, with no candidates nominated as yet and no interviews having taken place. He also […]
Photo: The Score (Donall Farmer/Inpho) I’ve made two attempts over the last few days to pen a “Time to Move On” piece but I can’t do it, it’s not in me. The first time I was gearing up for it that fucking photograph derailed me completely and then I tried again last night but to no avail either. Maybe it’s […]
Photo: Mayo Mick Right, the votes are in and counted and it’s time to announce the winner of the inaugural Mayo GAA Blog Player of the Year award for 2014. It’s a decisive enough result too with star forward and vice-captain of the team Cillian O’Connor coming out on top with 33% of the popular vote, ahead of Colm Boyle […]
Photo: 101greatgoals.com Mario Balotelli, after one escapade too many, had beneath his t-shirt a slogan, “Why Always Me?” Indeed, we chuckled. Mario appeals to the Irish wit. After the titanic rumble in Limerick between Mayo and Kerry we could also ask ‘Why Us?’ History is what we look back on. I love it, some hate it, regarding it as sentimental […]