Image: @MayoGAA Right, whatever about Galway in May our immediate priority is our do-or-die NFL Division One Round 7 match against Donegal this coming Sunday. The game takes place at MacCumhaill Park in Ballybofey and, with the clocks going forward on Saturday night, throw-in is set for the later time of 3pm. Anthony Nolan of Wicklow has the whistle for […]
Photo: RTÉ It doesn’t seem all that long ago since Conor Mortimer toppled the late Joe Corcoran’s long-standing record as Mayo’s all-time highest scorer. In truth, it is – that was back in March 2012 – and, in the meantime, another sharpshooter has been racking up the scores for us. This one – Cillian O’Connor – is now on the […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com Where am I? What day of the week is it? Where’s the sun gone to? And where’s that coffee I need so badly to kick-start me into action? Right, from what I gather it’s Saturday and a wet and windy one at that up here in the capital. The same kind of conditions, in other words, that prevailed […]
Photo: The Green above the Red I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve enjoyed the last few months, as I’ve been able to prise myself away from what had for ages felt like 24:7 attention to the blog. It’s been nice, to be honest, to focus my time mainly on issues other than Mayo GAA but over […]
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, […]
Every year once the action concludes another year of Mayo GAA results gets added to the archive here on the site. The results for 2017 have now been placed alongside the 115 years already there, the matches played this year now forming part of the rich tapestry that is the story of inter-county football in Mayo. 2017 saw twenty matches […]
It sounds as if the inter-county exchanges on the booing and all that are beginning to quieten down, which they should at this stage. Hopefully this will help to draw a line under it so we can move on to think more about next Monday’s replay. All kinds of catcalling are wrong. Mayo supporters – probably outraged (as I was […]
It’s Monday so the countdown to our opening fixture in this year’s championship is on in earnest. Forget the Dubs, forget Kerry, Roscommon or Galway or any other potential opponents in this year’s championship: the only opposition that matters for us right now is the team we face this coming Sunday. That team is Sligo and the ball is set […]
It’s midweek, on a truly glorious spring day too, and so our next test in this up-and-down League campaign is approaching. Round 5 sees Cavan rocking into Castlebar, with Sunday’s clash throwing in at MacHale Park at 2pm. Wicklow’s Anthony Nolan is the ref for this one and the match will be broadcast live on TG4. This is our first […]
Photo: @MayoGAA In the tiny bit of downtime between the Roscommon game last weekend and ahead of getting revved up in the lead-in to the Dubs match on Saturday night, I’ve been doing a bit of research to satisfy my curiosity on a point of interest. Having done so, I can now share it with the wider world. What I […]