There can often be a longish lull each year between our final League match and our Championship opener. Not so this year, in light both of our run to the League final and the trip to New York. The League decider was only played a few short weeks ago but the match in Gaelic Park is now but eleven days […]
Many aspects to the job of Mayo manager are, I’m sure, rather nice. Reducing the playing panel ahead of Championship isn’t one them. The Connaught Telegraph reported yesterday (here) that a number of the spring panel, six in all, have been told that they’re not going to be involved for the summer. The six named in this context are Jason […]
Lee Keegan is all over the media at the moment, having taken part in a promotional event yesterday to launch the National Féile competition. He had plenty of interesting things to say. In the piece with him on the RTÉ website (here) he talks about the successful League and looks ahead to how we’re shaping up for the summer. He […]
This is just a quick post to confirm all the results played over the weekend in both the Senior and Intermediate club Championships. First up the SFC, the Round 1 results in which are summarised below. Next to the IFC, where the Round 1 were results were as follows: Colm Gannon of the Mayo Advertiser has a report on all […]
We’re already well into April – the month in which club action is meant to hold sway within the GAA – and this weekend sees the start of the 2019 club Championships at both Senior and Intermediate level. Only one round of group matches in both the SFC and IFC will be played this month. While League club matches will […]
The county’s opening round fixture in this year’s Connacht Championship – against New York over in Gaelic Park – is now little more than three weeks away and so supporters’ thoughts are starting to turn to this game, especially those heading across the Atlantic for the occasion. I’m staying put here myself that weekend – as it’s my son’s football […]
This year’s National Football League campaign was a hugely successful one for Mayo, yielding the county’s first national title for eighteen years while at the same time providing valuable match experience to a host of new players. But the League is now over and so attention is already turning towards the summer. In this episode of the Mayo News football […]
Every year for the last few years I’ve done a wrap-up post on the League campaign that’s just ended for us, detailing the players used, who scored what and all that. This is the 2019 version, here are the ones from previous years – 2018, 2017, 2016. A slight statistical oddity this year compared to the previous three years relates, […]
Okay, it’s time to wrap up the poll on our Player of the League for 2019. A great League campaign it proved to be for the county, one in which several players stood tall for us. None more so than Aidan O’Shea. His switch back to midfield was one of the undoubted successes of this spring campaign, where he forged […]
This afternoon saw the final round of League action this year for the Mayo ladies and a day of drama it proved to be. Their opponents, Monaghan, were already condemned to relegation ahead of throw-in but it took two injury-time goals from Mayo to secure a share of the spoils, on a 2-15 apiece scoreline. The match, the venue for […]