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 […]
I had thought it was all over but then I forgot about the two league finals that are still to be played. So, instead of being in the winner’s enclosure, we’re in the final straight where last week’s leader, SixPointsUp, has extended his lead at the top. He’s now 26 points up but Yengae has made his move and is […]
It’s nice to have match reports like these with which to break up the monotony of a Monday morning. Keith Duggan (who else?) is his usual excellent self in the Times, where he ends his report by observing that if Galway knew there was “any stray boot waiting to trip them out [surely that should be “up” not “out” – […]
Okay, this needs to be quick as a hassle-filled day of work lies ahead. First up, here’s all the match reports from yesterday: from the Times, the Indo, the Mayo Advertiser and from There is a light that never goes out. Hang on: here’s another one, from An Spailpin. Keith Duggan in the Times is fairly upbeat about our […]
I’ll explain about the beardy lads in the photo in a minute, but before I do here’s the usual Monday-morning-after-the-game-the-day-before link-fest to all the online match reports you might want to read. Here they are: the Times, the Indo and, given that it’s a Munster team we were playing, de Paper even deigns to provide one. The Mayo Advertiser, who […]
If you’re looking for a one-stop-shop for match reports on yesterday’s win in Charlestown, then here you go: this is RTE’s, this is the Indo’s and this is the one in the Times. They’re all of the factual sort – it was obviously too nippy to hang around afterwards looking for or giving any post-match comments. Right, it’s Face the […]
The Mini-League results for Week 2 are in and it’s no surprise that, with the form book going largely by the wayside in this weekend’s Division 1 and 2 NFL matches, significant movement has occurred in the Mini-League table, with not a single contestant ending up in the same position as they were in this time last week. Here’s the […]
It’s not just Mayo supporters that have been left scratching their heads after the weekend’s NFL action. While we thought for a good while yesterday that we were going to end up getting a pasting, instead tomorrow’s papers will be all about the beatings dished out by Kerry and Galway to Tyrone and Dublin respectively. And, for good measure, Derry […]
It’s a bit of a winter wonderland on Dublin’s Northside this morning, which makes it the first time that any of our kids have seen a proper fall of snow in their own back garden. Had it been like this yesterday, then I doubt if even I’d’ve been insane enough to cross the country for the match. There’s plenty in […]
It’s the day before our first real competitive match of the year and the pundits (i.e. the lads who get paid for doing this) are split about who they think will prevail at Ballina tomorrow. RTE (who I think got almost every prediction relating to us wrong last year) go for us, Hogan Stand go for them and the Irish […]