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Minor match details for this evening’s provincial opener

The county’s U17s are in Championship action this evening, with Round 1 of the Connacht MFC round-robin stage seeing them take on Roscommon. The game throws in at Dr Hyde Park this evening at 6.30pm. If you’re planning on going to the game, then you’ll need to sort your tickets in advance. The link for purchasing tickets online is here. […]

The train could be the thing

Photo: rte.ie We’re inching ever closer to Connacht final day – only nine days to go now – and while there’s little or no coverage about the match in the papers as yet, with Noel Connelly’s encouraging quote from the press night about all the squad being fit and ready the only morsel to chew on, time is ticking on […]

¡Buen viaje!

Image: floridatravellife.com While for most of us the arrival of the New Year means a return to normality and work and all that, this year it marks the start of a very well-earned holiday for the Mayo panel over in Florida. The lads are jetting out to Miami today, where typical temperatures at this time of year are in the high […]

Away for a week

Just a quick note to say that I’m away for all of the next week, as I’m heading once again to west Africa where it promises to be hot but where, unfortunately, it’s work rather than holidays that awaits me.  The last time I was there I managed to stay networked reasonably well so hopefully it’ll be the same on […]

Heading home

I’m sitting in the rather cramped and crowded Air France lounge in departures at Murtala Muhammed airport in Lagos (anyone interested in the recent history of this country should take the time to Google that name in order to understand its incendiary value for many people over here) and my flight to Paris CDG in due to leave in a […]