The GAA have now confirmed that this year’s National League Division One title decider, in which we’re up against Galway, will take place at Croke Park next Sunday. The League final throws in at 4pm that afternoon and it will be preceded by the Division Two decider between Derry and Dublin, which throws in at 1.45pm.
A piece by John Fogarty in the Irish Examiner today (here) confirms that the Mayo Senior footballers have been in contact with the GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) to request that the Division One final be shifted from Sunday 2nd April to Saturday 1st. The players’ request apparently articulated concerns about the quick turnaround between the League final and […]
The GAA yesterday confirmed fixture details for next month’s All-Ireland Intermediate club hurling final between Limerick’s Monaleen and our lads from Tooreen. This title decider will be played at Croke Park on Saturday, 14th January under the lights at 7pm. The Intermediate final forms part of a Croke Park double-header and there’s Connacht involvement in the other game too. That’s […]
It’s next stop Croke Park for the county’s women footballers in a Championship campaign that’s now down to the final four. Having disposed of Cork in the quarters at the weekend and with Dublin falling by the wayside at the same juncture too, it’s a competition that has opened up nicely, even if defending champions Meath are now strong favourites […]
I’d thought I was done with Croke Park this year but as it happens I’m off to HQ tomorrow for the Dublin/Kerry All-Ireland semi-final and it now looks like I’ll be back there next Saturday too, as the LGFA All-Ireland SFC semi-finals are being played there as a double-header. As this tweet appears to confirm, it’s defending champions Meath against […]
Yes, the injuries were a factor in our hugely disappointing exit from the Championship at Kerry’s hands in today’s All-Ireland quarter-final but they weren’t the deciding issue. What was instead was our squandering of chance after chance in the second half at a time when we were more than holding our own in the contest. Kerry, by contrast, were far […]
Yet another football weekend is careering in our direction, another one in which Mayo has plenty of skin in the game. More than most weekends, in fact. I always used to love All-Ireland quarter-final weekend and I often pitched up at Croke Park both days to see the two sets of double-headers being contested by the final eight in the […]
Monday morning’s All-Ireland quarter-final draw saw us paired with Kerry on what is undoubtedly the tougher side of the Championship’s last eight. The winners will almost certainly be facing Dublin in the semi-final for the right to meet one of Armagh, Clare, Derry or Galway in the Sam Maguire decider next month. For us, this is the toughest of roads, […]
The GAA earlier on today confirmed fixture details for the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals. The four ties will, as expected, be played as two double-headers the weekend after next. Clare and Derry meet on Saturday 25th June at 3.45pm, followed by Dublin and Cork at 6pm. Both of those games will be broadcast on Sky. Then on Sunday 26th, Galway and […]
Because it’s the qualifiers, it’s no surprise that today’s match day has arrived with indecent haste after our last one only seven days ago. And, because of today’s opponents, we need no reminding that each day out in the qualifiers could well be our final Championship outing for the year. We’re strongly expected to beat Kildare in this evening’s Round […]