Finally, more than three months on from when the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in this country, the prospect of some semblance of normality returning to our lives seems to be coming into view. In tandem with the Government’s Phase 2 reopening announcement today the GAA unveiled its plans for a return to action. Full details of the GAA’s proposals, […]
You’ll probably know by now that Cillian O’Connor was selected as the No.1 senior club footballer within the county in the Top 100 Club Footballers series in the Mayo News. What you may not know is that the selection of the Top 100 was undertaken by representatives of every football club in the country. This meant that the vote to […]
Over the last 20 years, we have watched on anxiously at the possibility of bearing witness to a (possibly mythical) curse being broken. We have come so close to seeing it happen that you would have to believe in the strength of said curse. Own goals are quite possibly the rarest of sights on a Gaelic football field, and in […]
This week sees the culmination of the Top 100 Club Footballers series in the Mayo News. Over the past few weeks the top 20 Junior footballers and the top 30 Intermediate players have been unveiled, along with the first tranche of Senior players to make the cut. In this week’s paper, the top 25 Senior players have been announced and […]
With apologies for how late I’m bringing this event to your attention – an apology I extend to Liam Horan, who’s organising it – many of you will be interested in a show being streamed live on Facebook later tonight, celebrating the life and work of the late, great Con Houlihan. This is a Horan Stand event and you’ll find […]
With no new action to focus on in these strange times, the viewfinder for sport is instead trained on the past. A popular diversion at the moment is to come up with different player selections, both at county and club level. The other evening I found myself on one such selection committee. Billy Joe Padden, Colin Sheridan and I were […]
With this extended break from live sporting action showing no sign of coming to an end any time soon, it’s an ongoing challenge to fill the sports pages. But every challenge also represents an opportunity and it’s in this vein that the Mayo News has risen to the occasion with its ‘Top 100 Mayo club footballers’ series. In this episode […]
Delayed football and hurling Championships aren’t unprecedented, even if the most recent occurrences came decades ago. Unfinished Championships happened too, though you have to go back close to a century for the last football one, an infamous episode that saw us swindled out of what would have been our first All-Ireland. But only once ever in the GAA’s history was […]
I was wrong about The Sunday Game the other night. The re-run they featured of the 2017 final might have been one to avoid – I certainly couldn’t face its bittersweet pain – but John Horan’s appearance on the show was of some interest. What the GAA President had to say about the likely timeframe for a return to action […]
This afternoon at Páirc Seán MacDiarmada in Carrick-on-Shannon our Connacht Championship campaign was meant to get underway. Of course, like so much of life nowadays, that fixture, along with plans for the entire Championship, has been mothballed. Today’s scheduled meeting with Leitrim would certainly have had a novel air about it. We’ve only met Leitrim once in Connacht since the […]