The sun is shining brightly again this morning and we’re basking in the afterglow of a third straight League win. Here’s a quick gallop through the coverage that’s out there on our five-point win last night over Cavan. Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph, Anglo Celt, Northern Sound. Nationals: Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Irish Mirror, Irish Sun, Times UK (paywall). Others: […]
After the dash and verve we showed last Sunday in Omagh, tonight’s 1-13 to 0-11 win over Cavan was far more workmanlike. It was a victory we secured thanks to another hard-working and committed display, with the result never really in doubt after we goaled shortly before half-time. The playing conditions tonight were light-years away from the tempest that had […]
We’re back in action again tonight, with our NFL Division One Round 3 match against Cavan throwing in at MacHale at 7pm. Anthony Nolan of Wicklow is the ref for this one. We’ve made the perfect start so far to this League campaign. Two wins from two starts mean we go into tonight’s game on top of the Division One […]
I haven’t written for this blog in a long time. When you write for a living, the last thing you want to do with any spare minute you have is open the laptop. Plus, I always like to jot a few words down when I’m on the train. This is for many reasons: the excitement of going home, the scenery […]
We’ve just named our team to play Cavan on Saturday night. Here it is: Mayo (NFL Division One v Cavan, 9/2/2019): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stepnenites), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis); Lee Keegan (Westport), Michael Plunkett (Ballintubber), Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels); Diarmuid O’Connor (Ballintubber), Matthew Ruane (Breaffy); Fionn McDonagh (Westport), Aidan O’Dhea (Breaffy, captain), Jason Doherty […]
The 2019 Senior, Intermediate and Junior club championship draws were made last night. Full details on all the draws are here. The first round of group matches in the Senior and Intermediate championships this year have been fixed for the weekend of 13th/14th April, with the second round of games due to take place on 24th/25th August and the final […]
Right, that’s enough luxuriating over the result in Omagh. Another Ulster challenge awaits us this coming weekend, with Cavan heading to face us in Castlebar on Saturday evening. This match throws in under the lights at MacHale Park at 7pm that evening where Wicklow’s Anthony Nolan is the man with the whistle. We haven’t seen that much of the Breffni […]
Right, it’s time for the final bit of clearing up to be done from last weekend. This job is a quick one, which is to provide an update on the state of play in the NFL prediction mini-league, brought to you once again thanks to the platform provided by Facetheball.com. The results over the weekend didn’t all go according to […]
I was sitting close to Michael Maye (AKA Mayo Mick) in the stand at Healy Park yesterday and after Fionn McDonagh had lashed home Mayo’s second goal I remarked to him that I hoped he’d managed to snap a few photos of the young Westport player. I had an inkling by then that I might be needing one of them […]
Mayo supporters become accustomed in recent years to enduring tough National League campaigns, where wins invariably prove to be hard-fought ones. James Horan has only two competitive matches under his belt back since taking up the reins once again as manager, however, but already he has brought his Mayo team close to Division One safety. Yesterday’s nine-point win over Tyrone […]