For want of something better to be doing, I’ve just updated the fixtures tab here on the blog with details of the revised dates for the two matches we’ve left to play in the League as well as the fixtures we’re scheduled to play in both the Connacht Senior and Minor Championships. There’s an air of unreality to all this, […]
It’s been the best Mayo Senior football Championship in ages and yesterday’s final between Knockmore and Breaffy finished off the season in fine style. Ray Dempsey’s hard-working, energetic Knockmore side are the SFC champions for 2020, their youthful zest and hunger to succeed proving too much for a Breaffy team who, once again, tasted defeat at the final hurdle. In […]
Over the weekend, the Mayo club football season reached its crescendo, with compelling finals played out in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Championships. The Mayo News football podcast was there, as it’s been all summer, to catch the action, get the post-match reaction and analyse how the games were won and lost. In this first episode of two club final […]
At the start of the summer you’d have got decent odds on Knockmore lifting the Moclair Cup this year. Indeed, as late as the quarter-final stage they were only one of six clubs with serious ambitions to lift the title. Tonight, however, they stand alone – they’re county champions for the first time since 1997, with this afternoon’s two-point victory […]
With the sun having set, it was the hum of the generator powering the floodlights that provided the backdrop to tonight’s Intermediate Championship final at MacHale Park. A tense title decider it was too but it produced a clear winner, with Balla upsetting the odds to emerge four-point victors over neighbours Kiltimagh and claim a historic first ever Intermediate Championship […]
The Junior football Championship final ended a short while ago and it’s Kilmaine who are the champions. They only just edged out a heroic young Kilmeena side, capturing the Pete McDonnell Cup on a scoreline of 1-13 to 1-12. This was a real high quality decider played in perfect conditions in a sunwashed MacHale Park. The vantage point provided by […]
A feast of club football finals takes place at MacHale Park this weekend, bringing down the curtain on what’s been a hugely entertaining club Championship season. It’s been a summer for of compelling contests and interesting sub-plots, with an extremely robust case being made all the while in favour of a split season between inter-county and club action. That’s something […]
It’s a full weekend at MacHale Park, with four county finals down for decision over the two days at the Castlebar venue. The good news is that yesterday’s Covid-19 announcement means that a small number of supporters will be able to attend their club’s match at the weekend. Mayo GAA announced today that all Cáirde Mhaigheo season ticket holders whose […]
The club Championships have zipped by at a fair old clip this year, garnering way more attention than normal as they’ve done so due to the absence of any inter-county action this summer. In this strange Covid-induced vacuum, the club scene has blossomed, with compelling Championship contests played out at Junior, Intermediate and Senior levels. This action reaches a crescendo at the […]
This coming Sunday the Mayo SFC final is set to be contested, with Breaffy and Knockmore vying for possession of the Moclair Cup. The decider takes place at MacHale Park (throw-in 3.35pm) and it’ll be broadcast live on TG4. Breaffy are warm favourites to claim their first Senior county title, in large part because of all that big match experience […]