At the County Board meeting tonight, new managers were unveiled for the county’s U17 and U20 teams. At U17 level, former Senior players Tom Reilly (Castlebar Mitchels) and David Heaney (Swinford) have been appointed as joint managers. Joining them on the ticket are Ciaran McDonald (Crossmolina Deel Rovers) who will be Head Coach, along with selectors Pat Clarke (Bohola Moy […]
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 […]
Someone asked the other day about the new Mayo GAA season pass for club Championship games so I decided to look into it. The pass is available alright and a recent report by Mike Finnerty in the Mayo News (here) provides more details on it. This report confirms that the season pass costs €100 (€75 for OAPs and students) and […]
The Mayo News is reporting today (here) that there are five nominees for the vacant post of Mayo U20 manager. As expected, outgoing U17 manager Seán Deane (Breaffy) is one of the nominees and, according to that piece lined above, the other four are Tom Mulderrig (Moy Davitts), Damien Egan (Bonniconlon), James Fallon (Mayo Gaels) and Peadar Gardiner (Crossmolina). The […]
Mayo GAA announced today that the county’s U20 football manager Maurice Sheridan would not be seeking to continue in the role next year following the completion of his three-year term. The Balla man steps away from the U20 role having not succeeded in landing any major honours with the team during his three seasons in charge. He did, however, oversee […]
This is just a quick one to remind all and sundry that the annual Mayo GAA Golf Classic takes place this coming Friday and Saturday at Claremorris Golf Club. This is an important fundraiser each year for Mayo GAA and, with a bit of a bounce within the county right now, the hope will be that this feel-good factor will […]
The annual Mayo GAA Golf Classic takes place the weekend after next. This year’s event is being held at Claremorris Golf Club on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th May. Past and present Mayo players will be there at the event, for which the main partner this year is Rochford Motors, Ballyhaunis. All funds raised in connection with the Golf Classic […]
This year’s Mayo GAA annual convention took place today at the McWilliam Park Hotel in Claremorris. By the sounds of it, today’s event was a fairly low-key affair. Mayo GAA provided details via Twitter on how the various motions that were up for debate fared out. Those interested can check out the Mayo GAA Twitter account here. The only executive […]
Eight weeks on from James Horan’s departure, Mayo have a new bainisteoir, with Kevin McStay appointed to the position earlier this week. The new manager brings with him a strong backroom team, comprising Stephen Rochford, Donie Buckley, Damien Mulligan and Liam McHale, who together will start with the simple aim of doing what it takes to get Mayo to the […]
It was announced by Mayo GAA just now that Kevin McStay has been appointed as the new Mayo manager. The Ballina native was one of four candidates nominated for the position and he succeeds James Horan in the role. He’s been appointed for an initial period of four years. As was revealed some weeks ago, the core backroom team assembled […]