Mayo GAA confirmed earlier on today that next Saturday’s crunch Christy Ring Cup clash with Derry next Saturday will be played at MacHale Park. The official announcement on this is here. In that announcement, Saturday’s game – which throws in at Castlebar at 1pm – has been styled as a Ring Cup semi-final. In competition terms that’s not strictly speaking […]
A bit of an unseemly row has erupted between Mayo GAA and its Hurling Board over the hurlers’ access to MacHale Park. They’re due to play a Round 4 Christy Ring Cup match against neighbours Sligo next Saturday, a match fixed for James Stephens Park in Ballina. The Hurling Board requested that this tie and their subsequent clash with Derry […]
We’ve had more than our fair share of bad luck with player injuries over the years, in particular inside the last decade. This year, however, the extent to which we’ve been hit with injuries is truly off the scale, so much so that it feels less like outsized misfortunate and more like an outright curse. I can’t think of another […]
This is just a quick one to confirm the weekend’s results from Connacht club Championship matches involving Mayo teams. Starting with hurling, Tooreen yesterday recorded an impressive 1-19 to 1-12 win over Robert Emmet’s of London in the semi-final of the Connacht Intermediate hurling Championship over in Ruislip. Tooreen now go forward to the Connacht IHC decider, in which they’ll […]
The news about Liam Moffatt’s impending departure as Mayo GAA Chairman is now well-known. He’s still in the position for another few weeks as he sees out the remainder of his second year in office but he won’t be putting his name forward at the annual Convention to stay in the post after that. In making his announcement, the outgoing […]
Although Mayo’s calamitous defeat in the qualifiers to Longford at the end of June 2010 didn’t – as had happened to me in the blog’s first year back in 2007 – leave me bereft of topics to talk about, it did leave me in a daze over the weeks that followed. After Longford, the Mayo GAA story didn’t remain static. […]
The death was announced earlier today of former Mayo GAA player, referee and administrator PJ McGrath. He was in his late Seventies. The Kilmaine clubman served as Mayo County Board Chairman from 1997 to 2002, having previously played for the county at Junior level, as well as being a Senior panellist in 1966. He ran for President of the GAA […]
Happy St Patrick’s Day, all. In normal times, the National Holiday features on-field GAA action in the form of the club Championship finals from Croke Park. Those of us of a certain age can also recall when, further back, the Railway Cup deciders used to be a big deal on this day. Now, in these dreary, soul-sapping pandemic times, we […]
It’s now over a year since supporters were there to witness Mayo play at MacHale Park – those of an unkind disposition might say it’s been longer than this, so poor has our record at the county ground been in recent years – and, by the looks of it, it could be well into next year before this happens again. […]
The days are ticking down rapidly ahead of Saturday week’s All-Ireland final. Very rapidly, in fact, because it’s already Thursday and so there are only nine days to go to the big day. I meant to do this round-up before now but I didn’t get to it, with the net result that it’s now a longer list of things. Ready […]