It’s almost beyond our collective memory – well, not quite, but it has been a while – since we last played in an FBD League final but this Friday evening at the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence Air Dome we take on Roscommon in this year’s provincial pre-season decider. Throw-in at the Dome is 7.30pm on Friday. Tickets – a […]
Our 2010 inter-county season may have been a wretched one but it began with success over Galway in the FBD home final in early February and it’s now just concluded with more of the same, as we beat New York by 0-19 to 0-7 in the final final of the FBD final over at Rockland GAA Club, in Orangeburg, New […]
The FBD World Series Final has just concluded at the Rockland GAA club in Orangeburg, New York, where Ballycroy’s Eoin Sweeney led his charges to an 0-19 to 0-7 victory over the locals. At half-time, the sides were tied at six points each with our first half scores coming from were Jimmy Killeen with two points (one a free) and […]
The Mayo News is, as you’d expect, positively bubbling over this week with stuff about James Horan’s appointment as Mayo manager. So, without further ado, here’s your one-stop-shop in relation to what’s in it. Mike Finnerty has an interview with the new man that took place on Wednesday night just after he’d been handed the bib and those of you […]
I’ve just done a quick trawl through the usual Monday morning sources and here’s what I’ve landed in terms of match reports. The Indo leads with Johnno playing down yesterday’s win (it’d be safe enough for any journo to set up that headline as a Word template, I reckon) but it’s interesting that this downbeat quote is somewhat at odds […]
We’ve won the FBD (well, the ‘Home’ bit of it – to win it proper we need to travel to NYC in October and do the business over there) and today’s win brought us possession of the Paddy Francis Dwyer Cup for the first time since 2003. We had to battle hard at McHale Park this afternoon to get our […]
This morning comes the inevitable confirmation that Mark Ronaldson’s well-judged elbow into Ryan McMenamin’s rather demonic looking mush has resulted in the Shrule-Glencorrib sharpshooter having the yellow card he was given on the day upgraded to red. On the face of it, you can’t really argue with this decision, in that what Ronaldo did to Ricey (even if it was […]
The team for Sunday’s FBD ‘home’ final has just been announced and here it is: MAYO (FBD Home Final v Galway): Kenneth O’Malley; Alan Feeney, Ger Cafferkey, Donal Vaughan; Peadar Gardiner, Trevor Howley, Chris Barrett; Tom Parsons, Ronan McGarrity; Andy Moran, Barry Kelly, Seamus O’Shea; Enda Varley, Aidan O’Shea, Mark Ronaldson. It’s very interesting, I see, that the bulk of […]
It’s set to be a case of Groundhog Day on the Mayo v Galway front next Sunday. (All together now: “Eggs and rashers for the Mayo slashers, barley (or should that be hay?) and oats for the Galway goats!” I haven’t been able to get that old ditty out of my head ever since Safetysam mentioned it in the comments […]
It’s my bloggy birthday today, so it is – three full years have now passed since that fateful day on which I penned this initial entry, thus launching what has since become a rather meandering and, at times, slightly deranged public discourse about the county’s onward footballing journey down Road to God Knows Where. So many words, so few big […]