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Super Sligo march on to U20 final

This is a big weekend for Sligo’s footballers but, after this evening’s enthralling U20 All-Ireland semi-final win for the county over Kerry, it’s already guaranteed to be a great one. Tomorrow’s Nestor Cup decider is, of course, important for the Yeats County but a first-ever Championship win over Kerry, guaranteeing Sligo only their second ever appearance in an All-Ireland final, […]

This week on the podcast – Mayo Football Podcast 2023 E11

In this weekly episode of the Mayo Football Podcast, we showcase segments of the audio that our club members on Patreon will already have heard in full. Rob Murphy and I review this week’s audio excerpts, featuring the voices of Mayo Minor manager Seán Deane, who reflects on his team’s win over Roscommon last Friday evening, as well as podcast […]

This week on the podcast – Mayo Football Podcast 2023 E10

Every week on the Mayo Football Podcast, we make plenty of audio content available to our loyal club members on Patreon. We thought it would be a good idea to give everyone else a taster of this content and so we’re launching a new series on the podcast, providing snippets of audio from our Patreon pods. Rob Murphy and I […]

U20s crash out to impressive Magpies

Like the Seniors last Sunday, the county’s U20 Connacht campaign this year lasted just the length of a single match. Unlike the Seniors, though, at U20 level the Connacht Championship is straight knockout and so this evening’s 0-17 to 1-9 defeat to an impressive Sligo outfit means the end of the road for them. This match was meant to be […]

The weekend’s matches

The next Mayo match on the horizon is tomorrow evening’s Connacht U20 Championship semi-final against defending champions Sligo – more on that one here – but beyond that we’ve four other matches involving the county taking place this coming weekend. The action starts on Friday evening, when our defence of the Connacht Minor football title gets underway. The provincial Championship […]

Focus shifts to U20s

The main focus of attention so far this year has been the county’s Senior team but Sunday’s Connacht SFC defeat to Roscommon and the six-week break that now kicks in ahead of the start of the new All-Ireland Group Stage mean that things are a bit becalmed on that front for now. There’s still plenty of football to occupy us, […]

Details of U17 and U20 Championship panels released

Ahead of the start of their respective Championship campaigns, details of the county’s U17 and U20 panels have been published by Mayo GAA. The U20s are in action first – they take on defending provincial champions Sligo in the Connacht semi-final this night week – and here’s their 2023 playing panel: More details on the U20 set-up for this year […]