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 […]
Our 2018 National Football League race is run but, before all of the focus shifts to the summer action, there’s still time for a bit of retrospective thinking about what was in every sense and up and down spring campaign for us. Thankfully, one that ended up rather than down. Last year, in response to the promptings of a number […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com Right, the votes are in and counted for our final Man of the Match poll for a game involving us in this year’s National Football League. The winner is Conor Loftus, who seals back-to-back MOTM awards for his display against Donegal yesterday where he shot six points, five – in Cillian O’Connor’s absence – from frees. Conor wins […]
It’s Monday morning and, for us at least, the 2018 League season is now in the past. And we’re still in Division One. Let’s have a look at some of the coverage from yesterday’s late, late show by the lads up in Ballybofey. Talking of match reports, yesterday was the second game in a row where I bashed out my […]
We’re not done yet. It looked for long periods this afternoon at McCumhaill Park in Ballybofey that our time in Division One was finally up but when we really needed to the lads put their hands in the fire and did what needed to be done. We got the draw and with it the precious League point that guaranteed, once […]
Photo: Hogan Stand (Inpho/Evan Logan) Well, this is a bit daft, I know – the Man of the Match in yesterday’s game clearly wasn’t wearing the Green and Red but it’s been custom on good days and bad for us to hold a poll to pick a MOTM from within our ranks. On this occasion, following a match where precious […]
Waking up to the return of the snow in Dublin this morning, I was unsure about whether or not I’d make it to Castlebar at all today. The word from the west, though, was that conditions were fine if a bit on the cold side. We decided to chance it. The country was white all the way to Athlone but […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com Last year Aidan OShea missed virtually all of our League campaign, only appearing for the first time in 2017 off the bench in our Round 7 match against Donegal. This year, by contrast, he’s been ever present and his contribution to the cause has often been telling. Yesterday against Kildare he was at his rampaging best. Kildare simply […]
Another busy Monday morning and a truckload of reportage from yesterday’s match to trawl through. Happy stuff this time so let’s get to it. Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph, Leinster Leader, Kildare Now. Nationals: Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Irish Sun, Irish Mirror – live blog, match report. Others: GAA, RTÉ, The 42, Hogan Stand, Breaking News, Sports Joe. Photos: Mayo Mick, Sportsfile, Inpho. Videos: Mayo Mick, GAA (highlights). If you haven’t yet listened to my own […]
That definitely was better. It always is when we win – and we won comfortably enough in the end against Kildare today – but as well as the result the performance was much improved too. And, along with it, our chances of surviving in Division One as well. Despite all the snow that had fallen on it of late, the […]