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 […]
I usually do the annual update on web traffic stats for the blog earlier in January. Last week’s glut of retirements blind-sided me a bit in that respect, however, so here, a little later than usual, is this year’s update. Covid-19 has caused plenty of graphs that were pointing upwards to tip vertiginously in the opposite direction. It certainly did […]
A bit of digital gardening that I have to do on an annual basis here on the blog is to file away into the results archive the complete set of results for all matches played during the year. I’ve just now done this for 2020 so the permanent home for the year’s results is here. A notable year it was […]
The Mayo U20s went into their final round-robin match in the Leo Murphy Cup knowing that a win would get them into the final. In the event the 2-9 to 3-6 draw they secured against Donegal this afternoon was enough to book them a spot in next weekend’s decider. That will be against Louth, with venue and time details to […]
We’re starting 2020 on the Mayo News football podcast with a mixture of off-field and on-field action. Our first episode of the year focuses on the Club Stars annual awards banquet, which attracted a bumper attendance to the Knockranny Hotel in Westport on Saturday night, before moving onto MacHale Park in Castlebar yesterday afternoon where Mayo took on Galway in […]
The Padraic Joyce era got off to a good start for Galway at MacHale Park today. Six down with normal time up, his team dug themselves out of that hole over the course of the twelve minutes and more injury time that was played. The match eventually finished level at 1-17 each but, as they did twelve months ago in […]
The Club Stars event last night was great fun, with the added advantage that I’m waking up here in Westport this morning with only only a short trot to complete to get to MacHale Park a bit later on. The ballroom in the Knockranny was full to capacity last night, with a succession of award winners honoured on the night. […]
While the main focus for most supporters this weekend will be the FBD semi-final against Galway at MacHale Park on Sunday afternoon (throw-in 2pm), that’s not the only action that’s on. Tomorrow there’s a choice between club and county, with matches of interest taking place in Ennis and Ballina. At Cusack Park in Ennis Kilmaine face Na Gaeil of Kerry […]
I’m playing a bit of catch-up here, I know, something I’m likely to be doing repeatedly concerning Mayo GAA news from here on but, for the record, it’s worth noting that the first Mayo selection of 2020 was named earlier on today. As this is a pre-season fixture Sunday’s FBD semi-final meeting with Galway is not, as such, a competitive […]
It’s a time of change as regards the playing rules of Gaelic football. Following on from the experimental rules that were road-tested in last year’s National League, the Special Congress held in October approved the introduction of some new rules on a permanent basis. These rules come into effect for matches played this year and so we should get a […]