Connacht GAA yesterday confirmed fixture details for the upcoming provincial football Championships at Senior, Intermediate and Junior levels. Here’s the relevant information in relation to clubs from the county. In Senior, newly-crowned county champions Ballina Stephenites have a quarter-final meeting with London’s Fulham Irish. This game has been fixed for Hastings Insurance MacHale Park on Saturday, 11th November, with a […]
The Bank Holiday weekend is winding down to a close, with the county finals all boxed away for another year. Those title deciders weren’t, though, the only matches on this weekend and, with two provincial Championship matches of note taking place today, it’s time for a rapid results round-up. It’s only fair to start with the county final I failed […]
It’s time to narrow the focus on upcoming fixtures to those taking place this coming weekend. That means club games, important ones too, in men’s and women’s football and in hurling. Let’s start with the county finals, where silverware is up for grabs at Senior, Intermediate, Junior and Junior B levels over the Bank Holiday weekend. Aside from the Junior […]
A flurry of fixtures for 2024 were confirmed by Mayo GAA today, which help to colour in – and in some cases correct – the outline I sketched yesterday. There’s only one place to start and that’s the Dome and the FBD League, which nowadays isn’t, of course, a league at all but which is still the traditional bit of […]
The draws for the 2024 provincial Championships have just been held and incredibly tedious the whole constipated process on RTÉ Radio was too, lasting as it did over an hour when it could comfortably have been done in under ten minutes. We’re off to New York, course, for an early April Connacht SFC preliminary round meeting with the Exiles at […]
Time for an update on club fixtures coming up over this coming weekend and next. Starting with this weekend, it’s county final time for the hurlers. The TJ Tyrell Cup decider will, once again, be contested by Tooreen and Ballyhaunis, with the latter hosting this year’s final, which throws in at 4pm on Saturday. Ballyhaunis will be seeking their first […]
The draw for next year’s provincial Championships is set to take place on Saturday week (21st October) but we already know that our opening match in the 2024 Connacht SFC will be against New York in Gaelic Park. In this week’s Mayo News, Mike Finnerty reports (here) that this match against the Exiles will take place on the weekend of […]
The Mayo News has confirmed today (here) that Mayo’s Connacht SFC trip to New York next year is definitely going ahead. Doubts had been cast on the trip some time ago, mainly due to the rocketing costs involved, but the Connacht Council have now confirmed that next year’s fixture will go ahead as planned at Gaelic Park. No date has […]
This Thursday in Castlebar, Jim Carney’s hugely successful book will have its Mayo launch at 6.30pm in Castle Books on Main Street. On the face of it, a book titled ‘Seán Purcell and Frank Stockwell – From a childhood friendship … to Gaelic football fame and glory’ might appear to be solely a Galway football book on the incredible duo […]
Every now and then it hits me forcefully that the blog really has been in existence rather a long time. Since early 2007, in fact, and so this means that for matches against our major rivals, there’s a fair bit of source material here on the blog from matches going back quite a number of years. As we await the […]