It’s been announced that the Connacht Council have fined the County Board €10,000 for failing to fulfil this year’s FBD World Final against New York last month – story in today’s Irish Independent here. The title has also been formally awarded to New York. The Council haven’t, however, booted us out of the 2013 FBD and so I guess the […]
The County Board have announced this evening that next month’s planned trip to New York for the FBD final won’t go ahead. The County Board’s statement confirming this decision and the reasons for it is here. Our run to this year’s All-Ireland final has obviously put the county under some pressure to complete the club championships in time to allow […]
The focus is already shifting – as, of course, it should – to the start of the league this coming weekend but before we bid farewell to our successful 2012 FBD campaign, it’s worth having a quick look at some stats on this year’s pre-season competition. The first table (double-click on it to see a higher res version) provides details […]
A freezing cold night in January: what’s a man to do but toss a few more logs on the fire, flop down on the couch and follow the action on Twitter? U8 club commitments up here early tomorrow morning kept me away from this one but as is now the norm with Mayo GAA matches, the constant stream of tweets […]
Details of the starting fifteen and subs for tomorrow night’s FBD ‘Home’ final against NUIG at McHale Park (throw-in 7.30pm) have just been announced as follows: Mayo (FBD ‘Home’ final v NUIG, 27/1/2012): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites); Lee Keegan (Westport); Peadar Gardiner (Crossmolina), Donal Vaughan (Ballinrobe), Richie Feeney (Castlebar Mitchels); Barry Moran (Castlebar Mitchels), […]
The FBD final is kinda sneaking up on us, with throw-in against NUIG in Castlebar taking place little more than 24 hours from now. Ahead of the final James Horan has been speaking with the Western People while NUIG manager John Maughan has been doing likewise with the Mayo News. The latter claims that the FBD final is more of […]
There’s now confirmation on the Connacht GAA website that the FBD League ‘Home’ Final will take place this coming Friday evening (February 27th) at McHale Park where throw-in under the lights is set for 7.30pm. There was some discussion as to whether or not this fixture would take place in Castlebar or Ballinrobe but with the Dubs rolling into town […]
There were two matches involving Mayo teams on today but I’m afraid I’ve got nothing but some refried second-hand information on them both. I’m not a regular FBD attender and even PJ gave this one a miss so today it was Twitter all the way for me to keep up with the action. On that score (pardon the pun), it’s […]
The team to face Roscommon in the FBD League at Ballinlough on Sunday (throw-in 2pm) was named a short while ago tonight. Here are the full details of the team and subs: MAYO (FBD League v Roscommon, 22/1/2012): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Lee Keegan (Westport); Richie Feeney (Castlebar Mitchels), Donal Vaughan (Ballinrobe), Chris […]
We can forget about points difference and scurrying around at Ballinlough on Sunday trying to find out how Leitrim are getting on to see if we’re still on course for a place in the FBD final. This is because head-to-head results are, I’m reliably informed, the deciding factor in determining respective table placings (as they have been in the league […]