The GAA have this afternoon confirmed the dates and times for next weekend’s Round 4 qualifier ties – details here. As has been well trailed in advance our match against Galway has been fixed for the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Saturday evening with a 7pm throw-in. The game will be preceded by the Connacht LGFA final replay between the […]
At half-time in today’s Connacht final at Pearse Stadium, the outcome looked pretty settled. Galway has seized control in the second quarter to lead by five at the break. All they seemingly had to do now was to toss out the shawl and see the game out. It didn’t quite work out like that. Fair play to Roscommon. After a […]
Photo: RTÉ He scored 3-9 in yesterday’s game, 3-3 of that from play, a haul that appears to be the biggest ever individual score by a Mayo player in a championship game. He overtook Conor Mortimer as the county’s all-time highest scorer and he’s now closing in on the Gooch as the highest championship scorer of all time. It’s no […]
Mayo’s latest qualifier campaign started off in fine style and in glorious weather down at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick yesterday evening. With Cillian O’Connor racking up a total of 3-9 as he surpassed Conor Mortimer to become the county’s all-time highest scorer, Stephen Rochford’s charges eased to an 18-point win over the Shannonsiders. In this latest edition of the […]
I was going to leave this one until tomorrow morning but then I remembered that the Round 2 draw is on at that time so it’s best to sort the match coverage on last night’s game now. There was a welter of action on yesterday so plenty of competition for attention, not least given that we’re off around the byroads […]
Our first match in the qualifiers in each of the last two years was far from a relaxed experience. In gloriously warm and sunny conditions this evening in the Gaelic Grounds, by contrast, it was nice and easy pretty much all of the way. Although it took us a while to get motoring properly, once we did we exposed pretty […]
The waiting is over – all four weeks of it – and so later on today we’re back in action in the championship. Like the last two summers we’re also back in the qualifiers, this time starting out in Round 1, with a tough run of games to get through if we’re to make it, once again, back to the […]
We’ve named our team to play Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds in Round 1 of the qualifiers tomorrow evening (throw-in 6pm). Here’s the team we’ve announced: Mayo (All-Ireland Qualifiers Round 1 v Limerick, 9/6/2018): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Eoin O’Donoghue (Belmullet), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis); Colm Boyle (Davitts), Chris Barrett (Belmullet), Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels); Seamus O’Shea […]
Photo: GAA.ie It’s Wednesday, which means we’re already in three-more-sleeps-until territory ahead of our Round 1 qualifier clash with Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds. Given how close we now are to the game it’s all very quiet out there. To be honest, I’ve been more preoccupied myself with the start of the State exams today – we have a soldier […]
The football qualifiers get underway on Saturday and, once again, Mayo are seeking to start a backdoor run that will propel them all the way to Croke Park. Limerick provide the opposition in Round 1 and this edition of the Mayo News football podcast previews Saturday’s clash at the Gaelic Grounds. The centrepiece of this podcast episode comes in the […]