At the GAAGO launch for 2024 held at Croke Park today it was confirmed that our Connacht Championship preliminary round clash with New York will be streamed live on the platform. The game is fixed for Gaelic Park in the Bronx on Sunday, 7th April, where throw-in is 3pm (local time), which equates to 8pm back here. Galway’s Connacht Championship […]
Lahardane MacHales this afternoon clinched their second Connacht Junior football title, beating off the spirited challenge of a youthful Owenmore Gaels team at a fog-bound Hastings Insurance MacHale Park. The men from the butt of Nephin came out on top by 3-10 to 1-12 after what was a rip-roaring provincial title decider between two teams who really went for it. […]
Lahardane MacHales are back in action this coming Saturday, with this year’s Mayo JFC winners aiming to win their second provincial title at this level. Their opponents in Saturday’s final are Owenmore Gaels of Sligo and this Connacht JFC title decider throws in at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park on Saturday at 1.30pm. If you’re planning on going to the game […]
Tooreen’s tremendous journey continues. This afternoon at Athleague – in some ways, it’s now the team’s spiritual home-from-home, so often they’ve played and won there in recent years – they won their third successive Connacht Intermediate hurling Championship title. They prevailed in this one by beating Ballinderreen of Galway by 0-21 to 0-19 in what was a cracking provincial title […]
The hurlers of Tooreen take centre-stage from a Mayo GAA perspective this weekend. The club, which back in January this year, contested an All-Ireland Intermediate club hurling Championship final where they lost out narrowly to Limerick’s Monaleen, are on the march once again and on Sunday they’re aiming to retain their Connacht IHC title. Athleague is the venue for Sunday’s […]
Penalties were central to the contrasting fortunes of Lahardane MacHales and Kilmeena today, who were both in action against Galway opposition in provincial club semi-finals. The afternoon ended in joy for Lahardane, who prevailed in a penalty shootout, while a missed penalty for Kilmeena in the dying seconds of their game was central to their defeat. Lahardane were up against […]
Ballina Stephenites this afternoon crashed out of the Connacht club SFC, losing out to Galway champions Corofin. The match was played in windswept conditions, standard fare at Pearse Stadium, where Corofin handled the conditions far better, bagging fourteen scores from play to win by 0-16 to 0-12. The Stephenites were forced to field without the injured Padraig O’Hora and joint-captain […]
Another weekend of club Championship action lies ahead and our coverage of the club scene continues apace on the Mayo Football Podcast. Last week we released three podcast episodes and this week we’ll go one better, with four pods available, all of them available to our loyal club members on Patreon. Our first show this week came out on Tuesday. […]
Mayo GAA have provided handy links for ticketing information relating to all three Connacht club Championship games featuring teams from the county that are taking place this weekend. That’s here. The Ballina/Corofin game on Saturday will be shown live on RTÉ1 and the Kilmeena/Monivea Abbey match is being streamed live on Sunday (match passes €10) – the link for that […]
The county champions at Senior, Intermediate and Junior levels are all in Connacht Championship semi-final action this coming weekend, all three of them against Galway opposition. Ballina Stephenites, fresh from their opening round win over Fulham Irish on Saturday night, travel to Pearse Stadium on Saturday to take on Galway champions Corofin in the Connacht SFC semi-final. Throw-in at Salthill […]