Easter Sunday it may have been but today saw the first shots fired in this year’s Connacht SFC. The matches in question took place not only outside the province but also outside the country and both turned out to be extremely competitive tussles. Andy Moran took his Leitrim charges over to McGovern Park in Ruislip where they faced London this […]
I think most people will agree by now that the dispute that has occurred between Mayo GAA and the Mayo GAA International Supporters Foundation (which, for the sake of brevity, I’ll refer to simply as the Foundation) is a hugely regrettable mess. I don’t, though, want to dwell on the dispute itself in this piece. Instead my aim is to […]
With the New York trip now over, it’s time to look ahead and in the latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast we do this in two respects. First, we focus on the next challenge Mayo will face in this year’s championship and then we look at the very positive coaching and development work that’s underway within the county. […]
Most of the Mayo supporters who made their way across the Atlantic for last weekend’s Connacht championship opener against New York have now arrived back home. They’ve taken with them memories of an enormously enjoyable weekend in the Big Apple, where the county’s presence there was felt right across the city. In this latest episode of the Mayo News football […]
Yesterday’s Connacht Championship opener against New York descended into something more akin to a training session well before half-time. By then all of our starting forwards – as well as the entire half-back line – had got their names on the scoresheet, with Evan Regan leading the charge in that respect. The Ballina Stephenites forward was in flying form yesterday, […]
This post-match staple usually appears ahead of the Mayo News football podcast match review but over in the city that never sleeps Rob was up late last night stitching together all of the audio and so the podcast was already online by the time I’d roused myself this morning. It’s great, by the way, and you can listen to it […]
The Mayo fans who descended on Gaelic Park in their thousands yesterday may not have been able to dodge the rain but James Horan’s team made short work of avoiding any threat of a shock result in their Connacht championship quarter-final tie against New York. Mayo cantered to a 21-point win in the Bronx and the Mayo News football podcast […]
The rain fell by the bucketload in Gaelic Park, New York, this afternoon but the miserably wet and cool conditions did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the huge crowd – the bulk of them from Mayo – crammed into the Bronx venue. Many of them had been there for hours by the time this match got underway. Once it […]
With all the fun and excitement around the Mayo exodus to New York, with Mayo Day celebrated with such gusto over there yesterday, it’d be easy to forget about the game itself. Not today, though, as the focus zooms into Gaelic Park where, at 2.15pm local time (7.15pm back here), the ball will be thrown in to start our 2019 […]
A Connacht championship quarter-final tie against New York is always a fixture to savour, offering as it does the opportunity to spend time in one of the great cities of the world, a place where the Irish – among them substantial numbers of Mayo people – have made their mark. Thousands of Mayo people have made the trek across the […]