Image: @MayoGAA This year’s League campaign is moving on at a decent clip and this coming weekend it passes the half-way mark. Our Round 4 fixture is a high-profile one, with the lads heading for the bright lights of the city on Saturday night for a clash with reigning League and All-Ireland champions Dublin. Throw-in at Croke Park is set […]
The latest edition of the Mayo News football podcast is now available, this one covering Saturday evening’s great win over Kerry down in Tralee. Host Rob Murphy and I were on the terrace together at Austin Stack Park and it’s from there that most of this week’s podcast was recorded. We do our in-match chat (where, as you can imagine, […]
We’re hurtling ever closer to Saturday and the U21s’ date with destiny in the form of their All-Ireland football final clash with Cork at Cusack Park in Ennis, where throw-in has been set for 6pm. Many of you will, I know, already have your plans made for getting to the match. Some of you might even have your tickets organised. […]
Photo: @funshona1976 (via Twitter) Holy Mother of God, not only is it Wednesday already but it’s half-way through the day as well. As Declan Nerney might say, stop the world and let me off for a breather there boss. Right, I think everyone needs a good guffaw to start proceedings today. You’ll recall, no doubt, the imbecilic stupidity that was […]
It’s Wednesday and the strangest ever build-up I can recall to a big match involving us continues apace. Sunday’s tragic event has cast a very understandable and rather profound shadow over everything to do with football (and more besides) in the county and it’s just not possible, nor is it appropriate, to continue on as if it’s just a normal week […]
Photo of Gaelic Grounds: Maurice Horan (@_terminalx) via Twitter I know it’s been linked here already but, just in case you haven’t seen it, the superb information put together by those helpful souls in Club ’51 on travel and parking advice (and much more) for Limerick on Saturday is here. The main point to note is that you really should […]
It’s the day before the big match and, like the rest of you I’m sure, it’s becoming difficult to think about anything else but Croke Park and what awaits for our hopes and dreams there tomorrow. Our time down here in the Kingdom is drawing rapidly to a close and we’ll be returning to base later on. There’s been very […]
Photo: The Journal It’s that time of year and once again we’re in the slightly giddy position of having an All-Ireland semi-final to look forward to. Three years ago, when we were also facing into an All-Ireland semi against Kerry, the first Mayo GAA Blog pre-match drinks event took place at Bowe’s pub on Fleet Street the night before the game. […]
The 2014 League season hasn’t yet reached its crescendo, though it will do so this coming weekend, but already our focus is turning sharply in the direction of the championship and our first outing in same in just eleven days time. Okay, it is just the jaunt over to New York we’re talking about here – which we last got to […]
Photo: Mayo Mick As the old saying goes, you can only dance with the girls in the hall. It was Derry’s decision to pitch up for this match with their second-string team and this ensured that there was a large element of farce about today’s contest. This wasn’t our fault, however, and we still had to stick to our job […]