It was a case of contrasting fortunes for the two Mayo teams in action today. The county’s U20 footballers got their Leo Murphy Cup campaign off to a positive start by beating Sligo by six points but the hurlers were beaten by two points away to Fermanagh in Division 3A of the NHL. The hurlers’ current predicament is fairly well […]
Courtesy of Fermanagh GAA and their sponsors Fermanagh Bros, here’s livestream on YouTube of today’s NHL Division 3A Round 2 match between Fermanagh and Mayo from Ederney.
I’m a bit late to the party on this one, I know, but I guess it’s better late than never. Last night we named our team and subs for tomorrow’s National Hurling League Division 3A meeting with Fermanagh. Here’s the match-day panel we’ve named for this one: The starting fifteen we’ve named for tomorrow’s match – which will be played […]
After a hectic few weekends where football has been the main focus – with the men having played two rounds of National League matches while the women have already played three times – this coming weekend the hurlers have the stage all to themselves. Like the footballers, the hurlers were in League action last weekend. Their opening round match in […]
In the opening weeks of the blog’s existence in early 2007, it was just me talking to myself. I’d read articles about blogs, I knew that the majority of them never became established and died rapidly, that many never attracted any readers at all. That was of no concern to me at the outset. To be honest, I’d probably have […]
So, it appears pretty much certain that the resumption of inter-county action will happen next weekend. For a brief period last Thursday it looked as if the GAA might be having second thoughts about playing out the remaining fixtures in the National League – a development reported on that day by the Irish Examiner – but this was quickly scotched […]
I’m quite happy about Mayo being in the qualifiers. Our whole county has been fixated for the last few years on this notion of ‘six games’: essentially what it takes to go from Connacht to the Sam Maguire. However, football is about a lot more than just six games. The qualifiers does not mean all hope is lost. Kerry, despite […]
It’s Wednesday already and so it’s now a shorter period of time to our next championship game than it is looking back to our last one. Not that we have the option of going back in time, mind, but you know what I mean. Before long it’ll be back once again to MacHale Park for what’s likely to be another bare knuckle […]
Here’s something that will give you a laugh, at my expense. I did some audio with Rob Murphy last Saturday that has now found its way into this week’s Mayo News podcast and it features some incoherent squawking on my part with Rob prior to throw-in (upbeat), at half-time (we’re doomed!) and then after the final whistle (hoarse but happy). […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com It wasn’t just yesterday’s match that was helter-skelter: the Man of the Match poll that’s been up since shortly after the game ended has featured a rip-roaring contest between two of our stand-out performers at MacHale Park. In the end, just a single vote (from a total poll of 557) separated Kevin McLoughlin and Diarmuid O’Connor and when the […]