Mayo GAA have now confirmed details of the semi-finals in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior club football Championships as well as the SFC and IFC relegation deciders. All the matches are on the weekend after next. Starting with the Senior: Next the Intermediate: Finally, the Junior:
Well, how are the heads today? After I’d done with the match report on the blog last night, close to midnight, a few of us settled down in front of the television and watched the game all over again. And drank every drop of beer in the house. What days these are to be alive. Here goes with a sample […]
It’d be a bit OTT, I know, to go full-on The Day Before The Game about tomorrow’s FBD semi-final between ourselves and the neighbours. It’s still only mid-January and it’s only the FBD, even if the exchanges in the comments from opposing supporters have bordered on the tetchy over the last 24 hours. The match has attracted a bit of […]
Photo: Irish Examiner Clare’s starting fifteen for tomorrow’s all-or-nothing Round 3A qualifier clash with our lads at Cusack Park, Ennis (throw-in 5pm) has been named. It won’t come as the shock of the year to learn that the team the Banner County have named is unchanged from the one that started in the previous round against Laois, a match that […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com The clocks have changed, there’s a tiny hint of summer in the air so who cares if it’s Monday morning? In any event, because it’s Monday there are match reports to be sorted, positive ones for a change. Ready to dive in? Right, here goes. Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph, Ulster Herald. Nationals: Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Irish Times, Irish Sun, […]
We’re still alive. And still standing. Twice in today’s All-Ireland final, it looked like the game was gone beyond us but both times we clawed our way back into it. Our second comeback was particularly impressive and Cillian O’Connor showed incredible composure to fire over the leveler deep into injury time. So it’s a replay, for the first time since […]
Photo: Irish Post There I was expecting the team announcement to happen tonight but I just checked back on the site a few minutes ago – I don’t spend all day every day on it (though it does feel that way betimes) – and there it was. I guess it’s a bit like going onto the tube and thinking it’s […]
Photo: Irish Mirror The word’s been out on the street (and here on the site) for a while this afternoon but it’s only in the last few minutes that the GAA have confirmed Eddie Kinsella as the ref for Saturday evening’s All-Ireland semi-final replay against Dublin at Croke Park (throw-in 5pm). The last time the Laois official reffed a match involving […]
Photo: Laois Nationalist It’s now been confirmed that the young man who tragically lost his life in that road traffic accident near Ballinrobe last night was former Mayo minor star Darragh Doherty from Kilmaine. Darragh was corner-forward on the team that claimed the Tom Markham Cup in 2013 and he lit up that All-Ireland winning campaign with a number of […]
Photo: @MayoGAA The press briefing ahead of our All-Ireland semi-final was held in Ballina last night (the lads do like to get these events done and out of the way as quickly as possible) and, arising from this, there are a few quotes from James in today’s papers (Irish Independent, Irish Examiner). The main focus for the coverage in the […]