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 […]
It was all-Munster at Croke Park today – as it probably will be next weekend, too – but there’ll be no wild celebrations down South over today’s low-key annexation of the Division 1 and 2 NFL titles. Sure, Kerry will have been happy to have won a final after losing the last three they were in (Christ, the hunger must […]
We’re back at our metropolitan base after a very enjoyable few days spent in the home place in Mayo, where, aside from the match and everything else that we did, our three small city slickers had a whole load of fun getting their Northside wellies stuck into the Mayo mud. Concrete just hasn’t the same kind of therapeutic properties. For […]
We’re on home soil for the next few days so I’ll be less gobby than usual till we get back to the metropolis later in the week. It would be remiss of me, however, not to point you towards match reports from yesterday as well as a few other pieces of analysis. A man can’t afford to be accused of […]
It was always the obvious result, wasn’t it? So obvious that I’d pointed to the likelihood of such an outcome a few days ago (but not obvious enough, I must confess, for me to have the courage of my convictions and opt for the draw in my mini-league predictions) and I had great fun today at McHale Park with a […]
We’re heading west, all five of us together, later on and there’s a whole load of stuff to sort out before then (including my final week’s mini-league predictions: don’t forget the midnight deadline) so this has to be very quick. The nationals are still in bed once again where it comes to previews so all I can find is RTE […]
I’m a bit off the pace at the minute, I have to confess, what with friends being over from London with their four small kids in tow which, when mixed with our three Dubeens, has resulted in a whole pile of kiddie chaos. Little wonder then that there’s been a significant volume of alcohol consumed Chez WJ after the sun’s […]
Keith Higgins will be back in the country inside two weeks, according to this report in today’s Indo. That’s pretty good timing, as the boarding passes for the trip to New York should be coming out of the printer any time now. With the three amigos having also rejoined the panel in recent weeks, Johnno’s problem now is going to […]
Back to the seniors and the NFL and our likely survival in Division 1 for another year at least. And, this being April, it has to be Tyrone, doesn’t it? The lads that are in charge of the NFL timetable must be a right bunch of dossers, from what I can see, as all they seem to do is simply […]