The weekend just gone featured a hectic two days of club championship action within the county at both Senior and Intermediate levels. So hectic in fact that the Mayo News football podcast set up its temporary HQ for the weekend high up in the stand at MacHale Park to catch the best of the action in the SFC and IFC […]
After weeks of uncertainty about who would be guiding the fortunes of Mayo’s footballers next year, James Horan’s return to the managerial hot seat was confirmed at last week’s County Board meeting. In this bonus episode of the Mayo News football podcast we focus on the Ballintubber man’s reappointment to the position he held with such distinction between 2011 and […]
Just a quick one to start the week in order to confirm a few upcoming club championship fixtures within the county. The Senior football championship semi-final replay between Castlebar Mitchels and Ballintubber will be played under the MacHale Park lights this coming Saturday evening (13th October), where throw-in has been fixed for 7pm. The IFC and SFC finals will then […]
Conditions were very different at MacHale Park this afternoon, the still and steely night replaced by the wet and wind today. The cold was, though, a common factor – it’s never not cold in the MacHale Park stand at this time of year. The honours in the day’s opening Intermediate semi-final between Burrishoole and The Neale were up for grabs […]
I’m on Holy Ground for the night, not long in from an evening at MacHale Park where Breaffy qualified for the Senior club football final and where Castlebar Mitchels and Ballintubber couldn’t be separated, even after extra-time, in the other semi-final. It was getting on for ten tonight when I finally left the ground but when I took my seat […]
They say the most romantic kind of love is the unfinished kind. The kind that will forever burn and mark your soul. You date a girl, fall in love, and have a blissfully happy romance. The relationship, like any, has its ups and downs, smiles and frowns and ultimately, for whatever reason, doesn’t work out as hoped. It runs its […]
Photo: Irish Mirror/Inpho It’s down to the semi-final stage in both the Senior and Intermediate club championships, with the penultimate round ties in both competitions set to be played at MacHale Park this coming weekend. It promises to be a serious weekend of club football within the county and I’m looking forward to heading west tomorrow to catch the matches […]
Photo: Irish Times So, the deal’s been sealed, James is back in the hot seat. I think we all expected this to happen some day, although even a few short months ago few surely could have thought his return would occur as soon as it has or, indeed, in the way that it happened. As the saying goes, though, life […]
Photo: Sky Sports James Horan was tonight confirmed as the new Mayo manager, returning to the position he previously held for four seasons up to the end of the 2014 championship campaign. His appointment was ratified tonight at a meeting of County Board club delegates, on foot of a recommendation from the County Board Executive which met beforehand. The appointment […]
The weekend that’s just gone by saw the first piece of silverware claimed at club level within the county this year while this coming weekend sees two further final line-ups decided. In this week’s edition of the Mayo News football podcast club series we review Sunday’s Junior football championship final, in which Balla proved too strong for Achill, and we […]