It’s Round 3 in the club Championships this weekend, with places in the knockout stages up for grabs in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior football Championships, while the scramble to avoid getting sucked into the relegation quagmire also reaches a critical point. Over on the Mayo Football Podcast our club Championship coverage continues apace. Our latest pod is a bumper […]
I’ve been fairly inactive here the last while for the simple reason that I was away on holidays. I did pack the laptop alright but it wasn’t opened much over the last two weeks, what with all that switching off and tuning out that needed to be done. Our return from the sun late last night appears to have coincided […]
Round 2 of the club Championships takes place this weekend, as the pace quickens in the hunt for the Moclair, Sweeney and McDonnell Cups. In the Senior Championship there are a number of tasty encounters on offer for punters. If it’s a local derby you’re after then the meeting of Balla and Breaffy – who both lost in Round 1 […]
We had three Mayo Football Podcast shows last week and in this review episode Rob Murphy and I review extracts from these pods, focusing on Jason Doherty’s inter-county retirement and the start of the club Championships. Following Jason Doherty’s announcement that his days as an inter-county player were over, he sat down for an in-depth interview with Mike Finnerty. We hear […]
The Mayo News has confirmed today (here) that Mayo’s Connacht SFC trip to New York next year is definitely going ahead. Doubts had been cast on the trip some time ago, mainly due to the rocketing costs involved, but the Connacht Council have now confirmed that next year’s fixture will go ahead as planned at Gaelic Park. No date has […]
Mayo LGFA Senior manager Michael Moyles today announced that he’s stepping away from the post following completion of his three-year term. In the aftermath of the team’s recent defeat to Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final, the Crossmolina native said he’d reflect on the issue for a short while but he has now decided to call time on his tenure in […]
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 […]
We had three Mayo Football Podcast shows last week and in this review episode Rob and I review extracts from these pods, where the main focus during the week was on the Mayo ladies team who were in All-Ireland semi-final action against Kerry on Saturday. To start the show we hear audio from podcast regular Edwin McGreal, who reflects on Mayo’s […]
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 […]
Mayo’s inter-county year came to an end at Semple Stadium in Thurles this evening, as the county lost out to Kerry in an entertaining LGFA All-Ireland semi-final. Kerry had five points to spare at the finish, as they ran out winners by 1-16 to 1-11. Mayo trailed by nine points at half-time, having played into a Salthill-like stiff breeze and […]