Ah – the things you do for love. Myself and my Tuam-ian fiancée met just one month out from the All-Ireland final in 2016. To be exact, it was the night before Mayo’s All-Ireland semi-final clash with Tipperary. On the weekend of the final she came to Dublin and met my sister for the very first time and, while she […]
I remember Donald Rumsfeld talking once about what we know. To paraphrase, he said that there are things that we are aware we know (Known knowns), things we know we don’t know (Known unknowns) and things that we don’t know we don’t know (Unknown unknowns). I was thinking of how this might be relevant to the Mayo GAA Senior football […]
We’re still only in pre-season (just about, with our opening League match this day week) but we claimed our first FBD title in eleven years last night in the Dome so it’s worth having a quick look at the media coverage about that. Here it is: Match reports: GAA, RTÉ, Western People, Midwest Radio (includes post-match audio), Roscommon People, Irish […]
For the first time since 2012, Mayo are once again the winners of the FBD League. We beat perennial finalists Roscommon by 0-13 to 0-9 in tonight’s decider at the Dome to claim the Paddy Francis Dwyer Cup for the eighth time. It was a strange old game this evening, with plenty of defensive play from both teams and little […]
I was driving across the country this evening when the team to play Roscommon in tomorrow evening’s FBD final at the Dome (throw-in 7.30pm) was named. For the record, here it is: Mayo (FBD Connacht League final v Roscommon, 20/1/2023): Colm Reape (Knockmore); Jack Coyne (Ballyhaunis), Rory Brickenden (Westport), Enda Hession (Garrymore); Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore, captain), Conor Loftus (Crossmolina Deel […]
As we face into a new year of football action, it seems an opportune time to remind everyone about the rules on posting comments here on the blog. People come and go on the blog and, with a new year just getting going, I’m aware that some newbies may not even realise that a comments policy exists for the blog. […]
Connacht GAA confirmed today that match tickets for Friday evening’s FBD final between ourselves and the Rossies at the Dome (throw-in 7.30pm) will go on sale online at 1pm tomorrow. As was the case for last weekend’s semi-finals, no concession tickets will be available for this game. Connacht GAA Secretary John Prenty, speaking with Michael Gallagher in the Mayo News […]
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 […]
It might only be the middle of January but yesterday we had a club from the county contesting an All-Ireland title while the Mayo footballers were beating Galway in the FBD, having earlier in the day reportedly also got the better of Westmeath with another county team in a separate pre-season joust. Time for the return of the match reports […]
It’s still only pre-season so the win we recorded over Galway in this evening’s FBD League semi-final, played in the Dome at the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence, doesn’t really count as the first win for the county under the management of Kevin McStay. It’s still a sweet one, though, not least in light of the fact that it’s the […]