As we embark upon a fresh Championship season, the hearts of the Mayo faithful have inevitably began to refill with hope. This has undoubtedly been aided by a successful end to the Spring. It was one that saw Mayo bring to an end an unwanted string of Croke Park final losses. It also brought to my attention something which I […]
I promised the other day that if the memory card inside my sadly smashed camera had survived intact, I’d post some of the pictures from the Reek climb that PJ and myself did last Thursday. Well, the good news is that it has and so here they are. I’ve also included with the photos two video clips that I took […]
My legs are aching a bit and my arms are covered in midge bites but apart from that I’m in pretty good shape after climbing the Reek yesterday. PJ and myself had a hugely enjoyable day on the mountain – we set off from the car park at ten and reached the summit a little over two hours later. We […]
Well, at least this part of the waiting is over – we now know that it’s Meath we’ll be facing in next Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final in what will be our first championship clash with them since, well, I don’t need to remind you when that was. It looked for a good while this evening that they were going to beat […]
I promised last week that I wouldn’t mention the Salthill ‘hoodoo’ in advance of throw-in and I kept my word. Now that the match is over and with it the supposed hex that Galway had over us at that absolute hole of a venue, I feel it’s safe to mention it again. When Michael Meehan smashed in that injury-time leveller […]
I’ll be pointing the car westwards in under an hour so this is not the time for any wordy thoughts about the day that lies ahead. We all know how big today’s senior final is, not least because of the one-in-three chance of having to face Kerry next Saturday in the qualifiers should we lose. But now isn’t the time […]