The draw for Round 1 of the qualifiers is set to take place next Monday morning. The draw will be held on RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland show at 8.35am and it’s an open draw among the eight teams involved, with the first team picked from each pairing having home advantage. The draw features three teams from Ulster (Armagh, Monaghan […]
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 […]
Our short, sharp and unsuccessful Connacht SFC campaign of 2022 both started and finished at MacHale Park yesterday. We afforded Galway’s Paul Conroy all the space he needed to cause the damage he loves to do to Mayo and he was most people’s choice for Man of the Match from yesterday’s game. The focus of the poll here on the […]
Well, the new pitch looked bloody gorgeous. Setting eyes on the carpet-like playing surface for the first time today, the one thought that came into my mind was that we needed to put on a display to grace the new underfoot conditions. What we got, sadly, was a performance several levels below this. I argued on the Final Whistle podcast […]
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 […]
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), […]
Now we know why getting to the League final may not have been the best thing for us. Shorn of a good third of our first-choice starting team, we were simply no match for Kerry’s front-rankers. They tore us apart, inflicting on us our biggest defeat at Croke Park since that landmark hiding in the All-Ireland semi-final of 1993 when […]