Photo: Irish Times/Inpho Provincial club championship action continues apace and there were a number of championship fixtures this weekend. In Connacht, the identities of this year’s Connacht SFC finalists were revealed following today’s semi-final ties. Castlebar Mitchels are one of the clubs who’ll take part in the Connacht decider in two weeks time, as they got the better of Sligo’s […]
The first Sunday in November it may have been but at times it felt more like a day in high summer today. An ideal day, in other words, for all that club action taking place around the country. It was, once that thick fog lifted, also perfect weather to be out on the bike, as the above photo that I snapped early […]
Photo: @EoghanOReilly06 via Twitter (Sportsfile) The nearest I got to following what was happening in today’s senior club final between Castlebar Mitchels and Breaffy was by keeping an eye on the blow-by-blow score updates posted by Mayo GAA on Twitter. The final was, I know, live on TG4 and on Midwest but I had other GAA-related fish to fry this […]
Photo: Colm Gannon (via Twitter) North and South is a theme that runs strongly through the sporting action I want to discuss briefly this evening. I’ll only mention the rugby in passing, but here too the same thread was evident, as the World Cup morphed into a four-cornered Southern hemisphere tournament. Closer to home, today’s action at MacHale Park – where, sensibly, […]
Photo: @MayoGAA The focus has been on off-field stuff all week so it’s time, I think, for a quick post about some on-field action that was on over the past two days. Let’s start with the Mayo Masters, who had another good win yesterday. This one was a Round 8 fixture away to Longford, which was played in Drumlish yesterday afternoon. […]
I was at O’Connor Park in Tullamore – which, by the way, has got to be the finest mid-sized GAA ground in the country – this afternoon, hoping to see my local club St Vincents make it through to a second successive All-Ireland club final. On a day that had more than a hint of spring about it, it was, however, […]
I know the rest of you may not be overly exercised about this Saturday’s All-Ireland senior club semi-finals but the excitement is building in this corner of the capital where our local club St Vincents are preparing to do battle with Galway’s Corofin at O’Connor Park, Tullamore on Saturday (throw-in 2pm). On the same day, Derry’s Slaughtneil take on Austin […]
A dank old day in December isn’t the ideal time of the year to be deciding a match of any importance but today’s Leinster club football final at Navan’s Pairc Tailteann was a contest of considerable significance, both for the silverware that was on offer and the ticket that victory provided to the All-Ireland semi-final in the New Year. The day […]
Photo: Connacht GAA 2014 will go down as a great one for Ballintubber but sadly their year ended in disappointment this afternoon at MacHale Park. Appearing in their first ever Connacht senior club final, the Mayo champions were comprehensively outplayed by Galway champions Corofin, losing on a scoreline of 2-13 to 1-7. A nine-point losing margin tells its own story and, […]
It’s been a while – I’ve been away on work stuff over the past week and I’ve even got Mort’s book read since I was last on here so when I get a chance I’ll do a review of it. The all-island final has come and gone in the meantime (well done to the Aran Islands, commiserations to Achill) and […]