Over the last number of weeks on the Mayo News football podcast, we’ve kept our focus firmly on the here and now, following the Senior, Intermediate and Junior football Championships as they’ve played out round by round. With the spoils now settled at county level for the year, however, we have time to widen the lens out and consider longer-term […]
With a new year of football now fast approaching, it’s time to clear the decks in preparation for it. One of the jobs I do around this time every year is to refresh the fixtures and results pages – both of which, you’ll see, are now badged for 2022 – which also means that the results for the year just […]
The GAA’s Special Congress takes place tomorrow where the future shape of the football Championship is down for debate. Coming into tomorrow’s Special Congress there’s a distinct feeling that change is in the air, though it’s still far from clear how the key vote will go. Proposal A – which is centred on reconfiguring the four provinces into four groups […]
In a normal year we’d know by now not only our full schedule of National League games for the following spring but also what the draw is for the next year’s provincial Championships. This year we still know neither of these things. That’s because the structure of the inter-county football competitions for 2022 remain up in the air, with proposals […]
The list of nominations for the 2021 football All-Stars have been announced. Tyrone, as expected, lead the way with 15 nominees while we have eight players shortlisted. The eight Mayo players nominated are Rob Hennelly, Padraig O’Hora, Lee Keegan, Paddy Durcan, Stephen Coen, Mattie Ruane, Tommy Conroy and Ryan O’Donoghue. Lee is, along with Tyrone’s Conor Meyler and Ciaran McGeary […]
I still remember the day I fell in love with Gaelic football: it was July 19th, 2009. On the previous afternoon, my husband and I drove from his hometown of Westport, Co. Mayo, through Delphi in Connemara to Galway City. All along the way, on houses in every village, outside every roadside pub or Texaco, the competing county flags of […]
THE venue for this year’s Connacht final may be novel but it is not unprecedented. All of 98 years ago the replayed provincial final of 1922 between Galway and Sligo was also contested at Croke Park on the last day of September in 1923. As was common in those times, the match in question, which was played in late September […]
The formal launch of this year’s football Championship took place the other day. Ryan O’Donoghue was our representative at the event and he’s featured in some media coverage arising from it. Here are links to a few of these: GAA, RTÉ, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Sun, Pundit Arena, Balls.ie. Much of what Ryan has to say is interesting, illuminating […]
The GAA announced a short while ago how their coin-tossing to decide League play-off matches went this morning. In our case, this particular game of chance went against us and so our Division Two semi-final clash with Clare the weekend after next is now set to be decided at a Clare venue. There’ll be a further announcement from the GAA […]
One of the topics that came up on our first Mayo News football podcast episode of the year was that of home venues that Mayo have used in the Championship aside from MacHale Park. It’s a subject worthy of a bit more discussion. First up I have to acknowledge that I made a right bags of the point I was […]