The nominations list for this year’s All-Star awards was published last night and, as expected, we’re well represented on it. Newly-crowned All-Ireland champions Donegal lead the list with twelve nominations and we’re next on a generous enough ten. Cork have seven, Dublin six, Meath and Longford have two each while Armagn, Down, Kildare, Kerry, Laois and Wexford have one each. […]
The All-Star nominations for 2012 must surely be out any day now. They’re usually released the week after the All-Ireland final is played but I guess the strange position that obtains this year, which sees the destination of the Liam McCarthy still to be decided a week after Sam headed for the hills, has most likely had a knock-on impact […]
For some further reflections on Sunday’s result, I’m delighted to welcome back into the guest slot Stateside Dean who argues that we must use the experience from this year’s loss to drive us onto greater things in 2013. Anyone who has played Gaelic football, hurling, or any sport for that matter, and has experienced a championship loss, no matter the level […]
We’re all, I’m sure, still deciding in our own minds how we feel about how Sunday’s All-Ireland final went for us and so I’m delighted to welcome back into the guest slot Davitts Man to provide his perspective on events. Jimmy’s winning matches, Jimmy’s winning games – that song is still in the heads of most Mayo and Donegal folk at […]
The Irish Examiner has today followed up on the story they broke yesterday about Cian O’Neill’s departure from Mayo’s management set-up with a piece definitely confirming that the Moorefield man will not be staying on as team coach next year. In doing so, the paper reports that O’Neill has denied he’s jumping ship to join Kerry and he’s claimed instead that […]
Photo: Nat Telliya (@rodgegella) via Twitter Well, that’s it then. The final itself is well and truly over and the homecoming is too – fair play to everyone who turned out, by the way, in atrocious weather conditions down at McHale Park yesterday evening for the lads’ official return to home territory – as the curtain comes down on our […]
It’s obviously not the end to our All-Ireland journey that any of us would have wanted but part of the pageantry of All-Ireland weekend is the homecoming and that’s the case regardless of the result. The lads are currently on the train heading west, with an event at McHale Park waiting for them when they arrive. The gates at McHale […]
Monday morning, it’s raining and I still have the bunting that’s strung from the front of the house to take down. It’s over for another year, with Sam gone to Donegal, the winter ahead of us and thoughts of what might have been. Cruel this may be but this is the reality this Monday morning. I haven’t gone near the […]
It wasn’t meant to turn out like this, really it wasn’t. We needed to open up on them right from the throw-in but instead got clocked for 2-1 without reply inside the opening ten minutes. Shades of 2006 – though in truth it never really felt like that – but we then clawed our way back into it. Dominant for […]
It’s here. Dawn hasn’t yet broken but like many of you, I suspect, I’ve done all the sleeping I’m going to do ahead of the 2012 All-Ireland final. It’s just under nine hours until throw-in and although Croke Park and its environs are still quiet and empty now, it won’t be long before this calm prelude gives way to a […]