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Friday night for the FBD final

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 […]

Tribesmen test up next for us

Image: @MayoGAA It’s definitely time to close the book on last Saturday night’s defeat to Kerry and look ahead instead to our next match in this year’s League campaign. In Round 3 this coming Sunday we face newly-promoted Galway at Pearse Stadium, where throw-in is 2pm and where the LGFA match between the same two counties acts as the curtain-raiser […]

A few FBD stats

Photo: MichaelMaye.com Our League opener this coming weekend is already the central focus but I’ve one final FBD-related job to do before dispensing with the 2018 pre-season. This is my usual annual review of who lined out for us over the last few weeks, who scored what, who the new faces were and how the team performed overall. Analysis done […]

Further venue change for Sligo game

Photo: ballinastephenites.ie Those of you planning to get to today’s FBD League fixture (a group that doesn’t include me, by the way) should note that this morning a further change of venue has been announced. The match will now go ahead at James Stephens Park in Ballina, appropriately enough, you might conclude, given all those Stephenites lads we’re fielding today. Throw-in […]

Team to play Sligo named

We named our team earlier on this evening to play Sligo in the FBD League tomorrow afternoon. This game is being played in Enniscrone where throw-in is 2pm. Here’s the team we’ve named for our final pre-season outing of the year: Mayo (FBD League v Sligo, 21/1/2018): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Brendan Harrison (Aghamore), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Eoin O’Donoghue […]

Venues changes for this weekend

Image: Google Two changes in venues for matches this weekend were announced inside the last 24 hours.  Both of these changes have already been flagged in the comments but they’re worth mentioning again in case anyone hasn’t seen them and may be planning to go to either of the matches affected. First, Tooreen’s All-Ireland IHC club semi-final tomorrow against Ballyragget […]