We’re out. And we’ve no complaints either – Kildare fully deserved their 0-21 to 0-19 win over us at St Conleth’s Park this evening. We never took tonight’s game by the throat and this ultimately proved fatal to us when Kildare came at us with energy and not a small amount of confidence in the final quarter. So, first up, […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com I think it’s safe enough to say that Jason Doherty is one of our unsung idols. Not in our house, mind, as he’s a bit of folk hero to those of us under this roof, but, for sure, he’s a player who rarely gets sufficient plaudits more generally for what he does on the pitch for us. Yesterday […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com I want to head out and grab a bit of this glorious sunshine but best get the coverage on yesterday’s rip-roaring qualifier out of the way first. Okay, here goes: Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph, Tipperary Star, Nationalist, Tipp FM (includes post-match audio with Michael Quinlivan). Nationals: Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Evening Echo, Irish Mirror (live blog, […]
Say what you want about the qualifiers but they give us days out to remember. Today was another one which, now that we’ve won it, we can savour but, like so many back door contests we’ve been involved in, the enjoyment only came after a period of stress – which lasted a good fifty minutes of today’s game – during […]
Photo: RTÉ He scored 3-9 in yesterday’s game, 3-3 of that from play, a haul that appears to be the biggest ever individual score by a Mayo player in a championship game. He overtook Conor Mortimer as the county’s all-time highest scorer and he’s now closing in on the Gooch as the highest championship scorer of all time. It’s no […]
I was going to leave this one until tomorrow morning but then I remembered that the Round 2 draw is on at that time so it’s best to sort the match coverage on last night’s game now. There was a welter of action on yesterday so plenty of competition for attention, not least given that we’re off around the byroads […]
Our first match in the qualifiers in each of the last two years was far from a relaxed experience. In gloriously warm and sunny conditions this evening in the Gaelic Grounds, by contrast, it was nice and easy pretty much all of the way. Although it took us a while to get motoring properly, once we did we exposed pretty […]
Photo: Hogan Stand (Inpho/Cathal Noonan) Okay, the votes are in and counted for the Man of the Match poll on yesterday’s Connacht championship quarter-final against Galway. The clear winner in the poll is Keith Higgins, with 35% of the votes cast. It’s incredible to think that yesterday was Keith’s first appearance of the year with the footballers. Operating mainly as […]
Last year we came away from Salthill having failed to overcome the handicap of playing much of the match against Galway with fourteen men. Today at MacHale Park we fell right into the same trap and we ultimately paid the same heavy price. Up until Diarmuid O’Connor’s first half dismissal we’d been doing okay. Galway, as expected, had thrown […]
Photo: RTÉ Right, you’ve had your say and you’ve delivered a decisive enough result. Voting is now closed on the poll for our Player of the League for 2018 and the winner, with 40% of the votes cast, is Eoin O’Donoghue. Very well done to him. The young Belmullet defender certainly grabbed the bull by the horns in this year’s […]