I guess it was only a matter of time. While the daily Covid-19 infection rates are once more on the decline, there have been a number of outbreaks within GAA county panels in recent weeks and at some point this trend risked making it impossible for a county to field a team in a Championship game. That happened last night […]
The votes are in and counted on our first Man of the Match poll in over seven months. We had several strong performers in Tuam yesterday but most votes in the poll went to debutant Mark Moran. He’s our MOTM from yesterday’s game, an accolade he was also awarded by TG4 yesterday. The Westport clubman came out on top in […]
Well, that was fun yesterday. None of us could be there, of course, but it was still a fine afternoon’s entertainment when viewed from the couch. If this TV mini-series runs all the way to Christmas, with a nice happy ending to conclude, there won’t be too many complaints voiced here. But, of course, we’ve only won one game and, […]
After a seven-month break the Mayo footballers were back in National League action today and they certainly hit the ground running against Galway in Tuam. James Horan placed his faith in a youthful first fifteen for this game and this selection was fully justified as Mayo stormed to a fifteen-point win over the neighbours. In this episode of the Mayo […]
I’ll freely admit I had no idea what to expect today. Seven months since we last played a competitive game, sending out an experimental team to face a Galway side full of unfamiliar names. It was a hard one to call – I wonder did anyone guess our fifteen-point winning margin correctly? We never really got going at all in […]
We were supposed to face Galway in this year’s National League back in March. They were on top of Division One, we were struggling to avoid relegation. Defeat to the neighbours would seal our demotion from the top tier. Seven months on, those factors are still the same. Even if nothing else is. At 2pm in Tuam Stadium today, we […]
So this is all more than a bit weird. It’s not the prospect of a match taking place tomorrow that I can’t be at. Lord knows, I’ve missed plenty of Mayo games in recent years, among them a few big ones. So tuning in on TV won’t exactly be a novel experience. What’s strange, of course, is that inter-county action […]
Talk of Level 5 Covid restrictions notwithstanding, we’ve just named our team to play Galway on Sunday. Here’s it is: Mayo (NFL Division One v Galway. 18/10/2019): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Oisín Mullin (Kilmaine), David McBrien (Ballaghaderreen), Lee Keegan (Westport); Patrick Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels), Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore), Eoghan McLaughlin (Westport); Matthew Ruane (Breaffy), Conor Loftus (Crossmolina); Fionn McDonagh (Westport), Mark […]
More than seven months have now passed since Mayo played their most recent match in this year’s National League campaign, with all inter-county action mothballed since then due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. County teams all over the country are, however, set to take to the field once more, with the remaining two rounds of League matches scheduled to take […]
It’s already Wednesday evening and the time’s ticking down quickly towards our first competitive inter-county match since early March. It all still has an air of unreality about it – not least in light of the fact that today’s daily Covid numbers were the highest since the pandemic hit – but, as the saying goes, it is what it is. […]