We had friends round yesterday afternoon/evening/night so the Hastings Cup clash the U21s had with Cavan came and went without my saying anything about it and then later on the same happened with the team announcement for this afternoon’s FBD meeting with IT Sligo at Charlestown (throw-in 2pm). A bit of catch-up is in order, then. You’ll know by now, […]
Photo: Mayo GAA Mayo came up trumps on their return to the football field this evening when they outgunned NUIG by three points on a scoreline of 0-12 to 1-06. The cold weather did not keep the Mayo faithful away as the sides played in front of a crowd of almost 2,000, further proof that the men in red and […]
Our first team sheet of 2014 is out – thanks to Catcol for flagging it first. For the record, here are the full details of the team and subs named for tonight’s FBD match against NUIG: Mayo (Connacht FBD League v NUIG, 10/1/2014): Robert Hennelly (Breaffy, Captain); Keith Rogers (Ballaghaderreen), Kevin Keane (Westport), Eoghan Reilly (Castlebar Mitchels); Brendan Harrison (Aghamore), Shane […]
It’s been a long time since the final whistle blew at Croke Park on September 22nd last but tomorrow evening at MacHale Park the 2014 season (or, to be exact, the pre-season) will begin. It’ll do so in the form of our opening FBD League match in which we’ll be facing the might of NUIG (throw-in 7pm). In fact, it’s […]
This week’s Mayo News (paper and digital edition) has a piece by Mike Finnerty in which James Horan talks about the new faces who are likely to be given some game time in the FBD. Names mentioned in this context are Brian Gallagher and Keith Rogers (who were both involved last year), Mikie Sweeney (who played for the county a […]
Our lads are still enjoying the pleasant 20 degrees and above weather in Dubai but in their absence the 2014 FBD campaign got going this afternoon. Defending champions Leitrim got off the mark with a 1-14 to 1-11 win over GMIT at Cloone while the other Group B match resulted in a convincing 3-10 to 0-8 win for Galway over […]
Photo: New York Times Regular readers will know that I rarely make it to any of the FBD games. I’m based in Dublin so heading west in January to catch the pre-season action first-hand has invariably fallen outside my radar. In the seven years of this site’s existence I think I’ve only ever gone to two FBD matches and for […]
Image: @conorjdonnelly via Twitter The clock’s ticking down to Christmas, there’s a million and one things to be done and so, from my perspective at least, what’s been happening in the Mayo GAA world and the wider GAA sphere has had to take a bit of a back seat the last while. Time for a quick catch-up, then, on a […]
The details have already been posted in the comments but, for the record, next January’s FBD fixtures have been announced and so we can all officially start looking forward to 2014. Full details of the FBD fixtures for 2014 are here. The groupings for the FBD have been rejigged a bit for next year. Out go last January’s dancing partners […]