It’s getting a bit hard to keep up with all of the initiatives – most of them revolving around tickets for the decider – that are going on at the minute as final frenzy starts to build. Here’s today’s list. First off there are two official Mayo GAA fundraisers I want to draw your attention to. The first is a Night […]
Thanks everyone who entered the competition to win tickets to the Sporting Excellence Conference at Breaffy House Resort on 11-13 March next. Every single person who responded (and apologies to all those I didn’t get back to via email – all your entries did, indeed, go into the draw) did so with the correct answer, i.e. that James Horan was […]
You may recall an interview James Horan gave with the Irish Independent (if you don’t it’s here) back in January, where he spoke with Donnchadh Boyle about his time as Mayo manager and where he also touched on the plans he was then hatching for a major sports conference. Those plans are now fully formed and the event – the […]
I thought that today’s one might prove a bit tricky – in light of the fact that Jason Gibbons only made a brief appearance as a blood sub against Galway – but that little shimmy didn’t fool many of you. Almost everyone who replied correctly answered that the three clubs which account for three players each (all of whom have […]
All good things must come to an end and so I’m sorry to announce that today is the final day in this year’s All-Ireland final t-shirt competition. Oh, never mind – there’ll be another one next September … and the one after that and the one after that … Okay, then, today’s question is as follows: Sixteen different clubs have […]
Another day, another flood of correct answers – 63 in all today, all of whom correctly identified James Burke of Ballymun Kickhams (who came on as a sub against Galway) as the only Mayo player in this year’s championship who lines out for a Dublin club – but there can only be three winners and today’s three lucky trio are John O’Grady, […]
With the camogie finals done, the way is now clear to next Sunday and our latest big day out in HQ. Every day from here on, it’s going to get that bit more mental so that many of us may feel a bit like this by the time the day itself comes around. Still, we’ve been walking this particular road […]
Okay: the lines are closed, the correct answers – all 65 of them, i.e. all those who correctly answered that Robbie Hennelly and Aidan O’Shea are the two players that started against Tyrone in this year’s senior semi-final and the 2008 minor final – have been stuffed into the hat and the names of three lucky winners have been plucked […]
Right, just a week to go now to the big day so it’s time to crank up the hype machine a few notches. Those of you who wandered around this neighbourhood twelve months ago will recall the competition that was running here for some limited edition Mayo GAA Blog All-Ireland final 2012 t-shirts (nice they were too). Well, thanks to […]
One day closer to the day itself and it’s really starting to feel like we’re in the All-Ireland final this weekend. (We are! We are!) I even got to place my paws on the sacred silverware earlier on this morning at Croke Park, when I was at a breakfast bash there (thanks PJ for the invite). Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh was in […]