I’ve been fairly inactive here the last while for the simple reason that I was away on holidays. I did pack the laptop alright but it wasn’t opened much over the last two weeks, what with all that switching off and tuning out that needed to be done. Our return from the sun late last night appears to have coincided […]
It’s the day after the match, I’m still in the west and it’s still roasting. There’s nothing like an Irish summer’s day when the sun decides to shine. Here’s what’s online about our one-point win over a battling Louth side yesterday: Locals: Mayo News, Connaught Telegraph, Western People, Dundalk Democrat, LM FM. Nationals: Irish Independent (match report, Kevin McStay quotes), […]
The rain has finally stopped here in the deep south, I’ve a small bit of a porter head on me after last night and miles to go before I sleep. Time to rattle through this quickly enough, then, before I bid my farewells to Tralee and hit the road. Here’s what’s online today about our one-point loss to Kerry last […]
We’re back in National League action this evening, in what’s an eagerly anticipated clash between the top two teams in Division One this year. It’s Kerry we’re up against at Austin Stack Park in Tralee (throw-in 7.30pm), the match is live on RTÉ2 and Kildare’s Brendan Cawley is the ref. It would be tempting to ascribe – as many have […]
Hot on the heels of the decision to switch today’s LGFA League match between Galway and Mayo to the Connacht Centre of Excellence, it’s now been announced that the game is OFF. Player safety has been cited in relation to the decision to postpone the match, which, in light of the prevailing weather, makes perfect sense.
The LGFA match this afternoon between Mayo and Galway has been switched from Tuam to the Connacht Centre of Excellence at Bekan. Throw-in time is pushed back to 4pm, by which time the worst of the rain will hopefully have eased in the west. The switch was announced by GAA/LGFA live streamer Jerome Quinn (here) and he says they’re hoping […]
It was announced a bit earlier on that this afternoon’s opening round Camogie League Division 4 match between Mayo and Louth is OFF. The pitch at Darver is unplayable. Given the volume of rain that fell on this side of the country overnight and this morning, that’s no surprise. All juvenile and adult GAA, LGFA and Camogie matches in Dublin […]
If momentum truly is an important factor in this year’s condensed inter-county season, then the early evidence from Mayo is already looking positive. Once we got on top of this National League opener at a rain-soaked MacHale Park today we fairly showed Down a clean pair of heels and we won pulling up well before the finish. We were never […]
Well, hands up all those of you who saw that coming. I did have the idle thought ahead of throw-in today that, if we started well in today’s All-Ireland semi-final with Tipperary, we might just gut them but I still didn’t expect it to happen. But gut them we did and this game was well over as a contest before […]
This article first appeared in this week’s edition of the Mayo News as the ‘On the Road’ piece in the sports supplement – it’s here. I could, I suppose, say that at this stage the car knows how to drive itself from our house in Dublin down to Castlebar but, of course, self-driving technology isn’t there yet. With three cross-country […]