There was more unsettling news for Mayo supporters this morning as, for the fourth day in a row, a significant player for the county over the last decade has called time on his inter-county career. Today, it’s Seamus O’Shea who has announced that his time is up. Like the other lads who have done likewise this week, Séamie’s announcement isn’t […]
It’s said that bad news comes in threes. If so there was some inevitability to the announcement today that Tom Parsons has become the third Mayo player in as many days to announce his retirement from the inter-county game. Tom’s decision to call time on his days as a Mayo player isn’t enormously surprising, even if his most recent appearance […]
I came across some numbers recently from a Gaelic statistics website and I was shocked with what I saw. MacHale Park has not been a fortress for the Green and Red when it comes to the National Football League. The study done by Gaelicstats.com (here) has assessed every point gained in the National Football League by all eight teams in […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com It’s midweek already and so in the midst of this helter-skelter period of matches we’re already counting down to the next one, which see us taking on Derry up at Celtic Park on Sunday. Throw-in for this one is at the slightly later time of 2.30pm, as it’s a double-header with the 12.45pm curtain-raiser featuring the Oakleafers against Carlow […]
Time for some stats, I reckon. I’ve been having a look at how the scoring has been going for (and against) us in this year’s NFL and have compared it to the situation at the same stage last year. Then, as you’ll recall, we’d already secured our Division 1 status (although we didn’t know it at the time) having racked […]
As someone who grew up in one-channel TV land in the Ireland of the 1960s and ’70s, I find that memories of certain TV series have left an indelible mark on my mental hard drive. Remember the theme music from Hawaii-Five-O? Could have been yesterday, couldn’t it? Or all those doors that Don Adams had to get through each week […]
Now that the league campaign is over and we’re facing into a protracted, 10-week football-less lacuna before the lads take the field at McHale Park on the 22nd of June in the Connacht semi-final, it’s time, I suppose, to set down some thoughts about how the league has gone, what we’ve learned and what’s of greatest concern ahead of the […]
I’m still feeling a good deal less than frisky and I notice that my fellow Mayo GAA blogger, who had been strangely silent for a few weeks, has now broken cover to say that he too has been under the weather this last while. I can only come to one conclusion arising from this: blogging about the ups and down […]
You’ve probably got to these already but, in case you haven’t, here are the match reports from yesterday by the Indo and the Times. RTE have also filled out some more details on their report from yesterday evening. There’s also some interesting discussion on the match, albeit mainly from a Red Hand perspective, on gaaboard.com. Unfortunately, there’s also a mountain […]
I wasn’t at today’s game in Omagh and I didn’t even get to hear that much about it on the radio. To compound matters, I feel, frankly, like shite as there’s been a bug sweeping through Chez Willie Joe since Thursday and by last night I began to feel its baneful effects. All day today, my bones have been aching, […]