We’ve a Bank Holiday weekend to look forward to in a few days time – the new St Brigid’s one – and we’ve got three Mayo matches to keep an eye on this weekend too. The county’s hurlers are in action first. Having suffered relegation last year, they’re now operating in Division 3A of the National Hurling League, a level […]
Cavan official Joe McQuillan was today confirmed as the referee for this year’s All-Ireland final. It’s the fourth time the Kill Shamrocks clubman will officiate in a decider, having first done so for the Dublin/Kerry final in 2011. He was also in charge of two finals involving us, in 2013 and 2017, both against Dublin. Linesmen for the decider on […]
Mayo supporters are still coming down gently off the high from Saturday night, when the county qualified for its second All-Ireland final appearance in successive years and its sixth in ten years, ending Dublin’s long unbeaten run in the Championship in the process. In this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we take another look back at Saturday night, both the […]
The GAA have today confirmed fixture details for the second All-Ireland semi-final and for the final. The GAA’s announcement is here. The Kerry/Tyrone match has been fixed for 3.30pm on Saturday 28th August at Croke Park. Meath’s David Coldrick is the ref for it. The final, which takes place two weeks after that on Saturday 11th September, throws in at […]
We’ve had so many incredible days out following this Mayo team. Most of us have memories to last a lifetime from the totemic clashes we’ve been involved in over the past decade. The team have us given so much down the years and today – now infused with a significant dash of youth – they’ve done it again, giving us […]
The death was announced earlier today of former Mayo GAA player, referee and administrator PJ McGrath. He was in his late Seventies. The Kilmaine clubman served as Mayo County Board Chairman from 1997 to 2002, having previously played for the county at Junior level, as well as being a Senior panellist in 1966. He ran for President of the GAA […]
‘The Final Countdown’ series is almost complete on the Mayo News football podcast ahead of Saturday’s All-Ireland final between Mayo and Dublin. Almost but not quite! Kevin McStay’s wonderfully evocative column in the Irish Times earlier in the week really hit a chord with Mayo supporters and in this episode we’re delighted to welcome Kevin back onto the podcast for […]
So the dial has shifted again since Sunday. I don’t know about the rest of you but I found it quite satisfying yesterday – with TV and radio all focused on Level 5 – to let my mind wander back to thoughts about the game against Galway. I did, I admit, express doubts in advance of the game on Sunday […]
We know just how hard it is to beat Dublin. But whatever ambition any team might have of doing so, it can only realistically hope to succeed if it keeps fifteen players on the pitch against them. Tonight, however, an incredibly harsh straight red card issued to Jordan Flynn after just fifteen minutes meant we had to face the five-in-a-row […]
After all the hype and all the chatter – which made it sound like it was the first bloody All-Ireland to be contested in a decade – the day ends with no winner. They go again on Saturday week. Letdowns don’t come much greater than All-Ireland finals that end all-square. I’ve been in Croke Park to witness such an outcome […]