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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Chestnuts roasting by an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, Yuletide carols being sung by a choir … and the Mayo News football podcast playing on your iPhone. Co-hosts Rob Murphy and I get this end of year review episode of the podcast moving, by looking back on the year that’s ending and turning our thoughts towards 2019. […]
It was right at the start of James Horan’s first tenure as Mayo manager that a teenage Cillian O’Connor was first given his chance playing at senior level for the county. Eight years on, the Ballintubber man – who captained the county team during Stephen Rochford’s reign – is set to be sidelined for the beginning of James Horan’s second […]