The county’s hurlers this afternoon fell to another defeat in this year’s Christy Ring Cup. They lost today to London, who came out on top at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park on a scoreline of 2-22 to 0-21. The main damage was done in the first half as Ronan Crowley found the net twice for London. The Bandon native was on […]
On a sunwashed late spring evening at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, the U17s of Mayo and Galway served up a cracking contest in this year’s Connacht MFC. Both sides enjoyed periods of dominance in tonight’s game and coming down the home stretch a draw looked perhaps the likeliest outcome. In the end, however, Galway snatched victory with an injury time […]
As Nigel Reape put it so aptly on the Mayo Football Podcast Final Whistle show after Mayo’s 2-17 to 0-11 win over Roscommon in this evening’s Connacht MFC Round 1 meeting at Hyde Park, the Minors tonight provided us with a good end to what’s been a bad footballing week for the county. They certainly did that, with a forceful, […]
Like the Seniors last Sunday, the county’s U20 Connacht campaign this year lasted just the length of a single match. Unlike the Seniors, though, at U20 level the Connacht Championship is straight knockout and so this evening’s 0-17 to 1-9 defeat to an impressive Sligo outfit means the end of the road for them. This match was meant to be […]
What a difference a week makes, eh? Right, there’s no sugar coating this. Coverage of matches we lose is never pretty so let’s get this one over as quickly and painlessly as possible. Locals: Mayo News, Connaught Telegraph, Midwest Radio, Roscommon Herald. Nationals: Irish Times (match report, overview with quotes), Irish Independent (match report, quotes), Irish Examiner (match report, quotes), […]
We can reach for all number of excuses. The seven-day turnaround from last Sunday’s League final, the shocking refereeing performance of Noel Mooney, the long-standing hex Roscommon have over us when we win the League, but, you know, none of those factors sufficiently explain why we lost to Roscommon today. We were flat from first to last in this match, […]
Easter Sunday hadn’t yet dawned on this side of the Atlantic and we had our first seismic shock of this year’s Championship. At last, at the 23rd attempt, New York claimed victory in a Connacht SFC match when, in the early hours of this morning our time over at Gaelic Park, they beat Andy Moran’s Leitrim on penalties. The match […]
You know that scene at the end of the first Indiana Jones film where they crate up whatever it is they’re crating up and deposit it somewhere in the midst of loads of other crates in an enormous military hanger, never to be seen again? That’s what we have to do now with everything related to yesterday’s National League final […]
We’re the National League champions once again. Our three-point win over Galway at Croke Park this afternoon saw us claim NFL honours for the second time in five seasons and for the thirteenth time in all. It was a deserved win too in what was in large part a rather muted contest, in which both sides tended to pull their […]
Mondays just aren’t the same when the match coverage concerns a defeat rather than a victory. But, never mind, summer time is back and we’re off to Croke Park for the League final on Sunday. Things could be a lot worse. Right, let’s dive into the online coverage of yesterday’s defeat to Monaghan as well as the LGFA win over […]