After the Galway game, I stayed away from blogs and podcasts for a week or so. It was like when you would like a swim in the sea but the water just looked too cold. At half-time in the Galway game, it looked like we had got to grips with them and that the early jitters had been overcome. The […]
It was back at the end of March, early in our National League match against Kildare at Páirc Seán MacDiarmada, that Brendan Harrison suffered what looked then to be a serious injury. Although no confirmation of the Aghamore clubman’s situation has been forthcoming from Mayo GAA, in this week’s Mayo News Mike Finnerty has a piece (here) stating that it […]
A few minutes ago, the hit counter here on the blog tipped over into seven digits for the month of April. This is the first time where page views on the blog have exceeded a million in a single month or, indeed, have ever come close to doing so. Up until the start of this year, the highest monthly total […]
We’re now just a week out from the Galway game so it’s definitely time to turn the beams in the direction of this one. Just seven days on from Easter Sunday, our meeting with Galway in the quarter-final of the Conancht SFC is a pivotal Championship encounter for both of us. With the back door restored this year, defeat isn’t […]
Right, the National League campaign is over and done with and the first shots in this year’s Championship are set to be fired this coming weekend. Time, then, to pull the shutters down on the poll that’s been running here for our Player of the League and to declare the winner. In truth, no voting was needed to decide this […]
Right, it’s time to clear the decks in relation to this year’s National League. One job that still remains to be done in that respect is to hold a poll on our Player of the League. Looking back on the blog just now, I see the most recent time I ran such a poll was in 2019. Covid interrupted everything […]
Mayo were badly beaten by Kerry in Sunday’s National League final and in this episode of the Mayo News football podcast podcast, specially extended for club members, Mike Finnerty is joined by podcast regular Billy Joe Padden and by special guest Tony Leen of the Irish Examiner to look back on the big game at Croke Park. The first part of […]
We’ve had more than our fair share of bad luck with player injuries over the years, in particular inside the last decade. This year, however, the extent to which we’ve been hit with injuries is truly off the scale, so much so that it feels less like outsized misfortunate and more like an outright curse. I can’t think of another […]
Yesterday at Croke Park was an extremely difficult day for us, a day where, with a fair degree of similarity to last September, standout performances within our ranks were pretty thin on the ground. Despite the heavy margin of defeat, however, we had a few players who did well for us yesterday. Chief among them was goalkeeper Rory Byrne, whose […]
Lookit, I’ve done it so you don’t have to. Here’s what’s online about our huge defeat to Kerry in yesterday’s National League final at Croke Park. Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph, Western People, Kerryman, Radio Kerry. Nationals: Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Mirror (live blog, match report), Irish Sun. Others: GAA, RTÉ (live blog, match report, manager quotes), […]