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Checking the foundations

I think most people will agree by now that the dispute that has occurred between Mayo GAA and the Mayo GAA International Supporters Foundation (which, for the sake of brevity, I’ll refer to simply as the Foundation) is a hugely regrettable mess. I don’t, though, want to dwell on the dispute itself in this piece. Instead my aim is to […]

Real men wanted now!

The comment posted by PJ Monaghan on Friday concerning the management appointment fiasco struck a chord with readers. In this guest piece, PJ elaborates further on the issues raised in his comment and he also puts forward his proposals on what should happen now. Ger Loughnane is a man who has uttered many famous quotes in the context of the GAA. The […]

The revised plan it is

It’ll come as no surprise to anyone to learn that the county board’s revised strategic action plan (or, to give it its official title, the Mayo GAA Strategic Vision and Action Plan 2009-2015) was adopted at last night’s meeting.  Hogan Stand reports that the plan was accepted by the county board without a vote.  On your own heads let it be, […]

More on Monday night’s County Board meeting

Daniel Carey has an interesting account in the Mayo News on Monday night’s County Board meeting which was held to discuss the Strategic Action Plan.  It’s so interesting, in fact, that the entire article (byline and all) also appears in this morning’s Indo.  Regardless of which paper it’s in, it doesn’t make comfortable reading for the County Board executive, as […]

Early team news for Sunday

The Mayo News has some early-in-the-week information on who might or might not feature for us in Sunday’s shit-or-bust inconsequential league match with Monaghan at Iniskeen (throw-in 2.30 pm). As was reported by Hogan Stand earlier on today, Aidan O’Shea is out of Sunday’s match, having hurt (but not broken) his thumb against Cork.  Tom Cunniffe, who was withdrawn at […]