It’s that time of year again, time to sit back, chill out and enjoy the festivities. Time too to give the blog a rest for a few days, not least given that the on-field action gets going once more early in the New Year. But, of course, it’s been restful enough here for several weeks now, in fact ever since […]
Photo: RTÉ Stephen Rochford was on Newstalk’s Off the Ball show last night. In a wide-ranging chat with Joe Molloy and Kevin Kilbane, Stephen looks back on the 2017 season and casts his mind ahead to the coming year. In his usual matter-of-fact way, Stephen deals with the aftermath of this year’s final and gives his view on the outrageously […]
Photo: Mayo News The Mayo News reports today (paper and digital versions) that Kevin Keane is back training with the senior squad ahead of the new season that’s now beginning to loom into view. The Westport defender tore his cruciate in the early stages of the Intermediate club All-Ireland final back in February and he’s been on the long and lonely […]
Photo: @MayoGAA The Mayo GAA Convention took place at Westport yesterday and so it’d be remiss of me not to give the proceedings a brief mention. There was plenty of chat at the lunch in the Shelbourne on Friday about yesterday’s contest for County Board Secretary. The consensus was that it’d be a close run thing between Crossmolina’s Dermot Butler […]
December Fridays in Dublin city centre are always special, with the shops, streets, restaurants and bars thronged, as day merges into evening and on into night. It’s a great time to be out in town, with a real pre-Christmas buzz in the air. Which made the timing for yesterday’s inaugural Christmas lunch with the Mayo senior team, hosted by Cairde […]
Photo: RTÉ For the first time since 2013 and the sixth time ever, Carnacon are the All-Ireland LGFA senior champions. They beat Cork’s Mourneabbey in this afternoon’s All-Ireland decider at Parnell Park by 0-15 to 1-10 to take the Dolores Tyrrell Memorial Cup back to Mayo once again. For Cora Staunton it’s the perfect send-off ahead of her delayed departure […]
Photo: The 42/Morgan Treacy Inpho The lads are done for the year, even the club stuff is boxed away at this stage, but the same isn’t true of the ladies. Specifically the ladies team of Carnacon, the Mayo and Connacht LGFA senior champions, who have an All-Ireland final coming up on Sunday. Parnell Park up here in the capital is […]
Photo: RTÉ It was announced a bit earlier on this morning that, at the age of 35, Alan Dillon has decided to retire as an inter-county player. The news was broken on the Mayo GAA website, with the announcement including statements from County Board Chairman Mike Connelly, manager Stephen Rochford and the man himself – it’s here. As the announcement confirms, […]
Photo: RTÉ Club titles are rarely won easily. Proof of that came at Tuam Stadium this afternoon where Galway’s Corofin eventually got the better of Mayo champions Castlebar Mitchels in the Connacht senior club football final but only after these two provincial heavyweights ended deadlocked at the end of normal time. Corofin should, in truth, have put this contest to […]
Photo: @MayoGAA Those organised types among you are, no doubt, already well stuck into getting the Christmas presents sorted. The rest of you are, perhaps, starting to feel the first stabs of panic as you see that it’s now just a single calendar month away from the big day. Speaking of calendars, the official Mayo GAA 2018 one is now […]