Team to face Galway named

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 Willie Joe

We’ve just named our team to play Galway in Sunday’s FBD League semi-final at Tuam Stadium (throw-in 1.30pm). Here’s the starting fifteen we’ve named: Mayo (FBD League Semi-Final v Galway, 13/1/2019): Rob Hennelly (Breaffy); Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis), Brendan Harrison (Aghamore), David Drake (Ballaghaderreen); Colm Boyle (Davitts, captain), Michael Plunkett (Ballintubber), James McCormack (Claremorris); Donal Vaughan (Castlebar Mitchels), Diarmuid O’Connor (Ballintubber); […]

Tasty tussle with Tribesmen in store this Sunday

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 Willie Joe

Fresh from our penalty shootout dramatics up in Carrick last Sunday, the next pre-season test for James Horan and his Mayo team comes this weekend. Galway provide the opposition in Sunday’s FBD League semi-final at Tuam Stadium, where throw-in is fixed for 1.30pm. Neither side will, I’m sure, be keen to ascribe any significance to this January derby clash. The […]

Penalty shootout in Leitrim – Mayo News football podcast 2019 E1

January 7, 2019January 15, 2019 Willie Joe

The New Year started in dramatic fashion at Carrick-on-Shannon yesterday for Mayo’s footballers. In what was the county’s first senior inter-county match in over six months, where James Horan took charge of his first game since returning to the position of Mayo manager, there was drama aplenty at Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada. This was capped off by a first-ever soccer-style […]

Return of the Monday match reports

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 Willie Joe

Life is starting to return to normal after the holiday period, the football is back – for us, after a too-long absence – and so it’s time too for the Monday match reports to make their return. As you’d imagine, there’s quite a bit of coverage about our match against Leitrim yesterday in light of the novel climax to that […]

Dramatic shootout win starts the new Horan era

January 6, 2019February 25, 2019 Willie Joe

Well, that sure started the year – and James Horan’s second stint in charge – with a bang. A dramatic 2-13 apiece draw against a feisty Leitrim team, capped by a first-ever penalty shoot-out in a football game in the entire history of of the GAA. Quite the start to 2019, that’s for sure. At half-time this afternoon at Páirc […]

Team named for Sunday

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 Willie Joe

There I was earlier on saying that naming teams in advance wasn’t really the done thing for the FBD. Well, James Horan and his selectors clearly had other ideas – as is their prerogative – and have decided to release details of the starting fifteen for Sunday’s FBD opener against Leitrim at Carrick-on-Shannon (throw-in 1.30pm). Here’s the team that’s been […]

Back on the road again

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 Willie Joe

Sunday is fast approaching and, with it, our long awaited first outing of 2019. As the saying goes, hunger is the best sauce and so, with over six months having passed since the senior team were last in action, supporters should be bordering on ravenous at this stage. Sunday’s meeting with Leitrim at Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada in Carrick-on-Shannon (throw-in […]

Hello to 2019

January 1, 2019 Willie Joe

Photo: Independent.ie (Arthur Carron) So the New Year has finally arrived, even if the first dawn of 2019 has yet to break this morning here in the capital. But 2018 and its awfulness from a Mayo GAA perspective is now firmly in the past, with the focus fixed on the challenges that face us anew in the year that has […]

A week ’till Sunday

December 30, 2018 Willie Joe

If it has felt like an age since we all last saw the senior county team in action then, well, that’s because it has been. Since Newbridge it’s been nowhere for us, a void that has lasted over six months. Half a bloody year, in other words. Much has happened, of course, in the intervening period and so when, a week […]

Happy Christmas

December 24, 2018 Willie Joe

We’re already well into Christmas Eve so it’s definitely time to check out of here for a bit ahead of the big day tomorrow. Hope you all have a great Christmas and get to enjoy some time to relax before the madness begins all over again early in the New Year.

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