There was LGFA Championship football, there was men’s Junior Championship football and there was Senior hurling Championship action all on this weekend. Here’s a quick gallop through the weekend’s results. Starting with LGFA, the weekend’s results were as follows: A report by the Mayo News on the Charlestown/Westport game is here and the same paper’s report on Carnacon’s win over […]
It was a weekend of League finals at club level, with five separate Divisional finals decided over the last two days. Here’s confirmation of the weekend’s results. The Division 1 title was won yesterday evening by Castlebar Mitchels who beat Westport by a point after extra-time, on a scoreline of 2-16 to 0-21. Match report from the Mayo News is […]
The day before the game’s biggest day of the year saw the curtain fall on Mayo’s year of inter-county football. Yesterday’s LGFA All-Ireland semi-final at Semple Stadium ended in a five-point defeat to title favourites Kerry. Here’s what’s online about the game: Locals: Mayo News, Connaught Telegraph, Western People, Radio Kerry. Nationals: Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Irish Mirror. Others: Ladies […]
The debate here on the blog over the past 24 hours has, somewhat oddly, been focused on a match the county wasn’t involved in at all yesterday, with the one we did play generating very little interest in comparison. Time to redress that balance, then, by looking at the coverage of Mayo’s dramatic win over Galway in yesterday’s LGFA All-Ireland […]
The Mayo ladies are once again through to the All-Ireland semi-final. They triumphed by the minimum margin in dramatic fashion over Galway in today’s LGFA All-Ireland quarter-final, with Shauna Howley fisting over the winning score into the wind at Pearse Stadium just seconds before the final hooter sounded, as Mayo snatched the win by 0-10 to 1-6. It was no […]
I didn’t want to have to do this and the rest of you – if you’ve any sense – won’t want to spend any time reading this. But, sad fool that I am, I still see it as part of the post-game ritual that has to be done or, on days such as this, endured. Right, then, let’s get it […]
At half-time in today’s All-Ireland quarter-final, we were well in the game. We’d had plenty of the ball in the opening half and although we’d been rocked, yet again, by a Dublin goal, we’d fought back really well after that. We’d even had a goal disallowed ourselves, which I’m told TV replays confirmed was the right decision. By the end […]
Everything was on the line for the county’s women footballers at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park as nothing other than a win over Laois in this afternoon’s final group stage match would have kept Mayo’s season alive. In the end, they did so handsomely, crushing the challenge of the O’Moore County by 2-15 to 0-8 to advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals […]
The stereotypical Mayo/Galway game is one that goes right down to the wire, the match won or lost by a single kick of the ball. In that respect, today’s tense but enthralling All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-final was true to type. At half-time, while we weren’t completely out of it, we were in major bother. Our kickout strategy in tatters, utterly […]
Every now and then it hits me forcefully that the blog really has been in existence rather a long time. Since early 2007, in fact, and so this means that for matches against our major rivals, there’s a fair bit of source material here on the blog from matches going back quite a number of years. As we await the […]