The Club Stars event last night was great fun, with the added advantage that I’m waking up here in Westport this morning with only only a short trot to complete to get to MacHale Park a bit later on. The ballroom in the Knockranny was full to capacity last night, with a succession of award winners honoured on the night. […]
While the main focus for most supporters this weekend will be the FBD semi-final against Galway at MacHale Park on Sunday afternoon (throw-in 2pm), that’s not the only action that’s on. Tomorrow there’s a choice between club and county, with matches of interest taking place in Ennis and Ballina. At Cusack Park in Ennis Kilmaine face Na Gaeil of Kerry […]
Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada was the place to be for Mayo football supporters last Saturday afternoon. Those who made it to Carrick-on-Shannon got to witness a pulsating All-Ireland U20 semi-final contest, in which Mayo’s young guns beat off a strong challenge from Derry to emerge the winners by three points. The Mayo News football podcast was there and in this […]
We haven’t gone away, you know, and neither have I. Not yet at any rate. I’m even starting the day this morning on Holy Ground, having yesterday – for only the second time since the blog’s inception – travelled out of the county for a match involving us and then back into it afterwards. I’m off out the door again […]
By far the most annoying thing we’ve had to put up with – to my mind at least – since the seniors’ untimely exit from this year’s championship has been the way so many have queued up to express condolences about the apparent death of football in the county. While the seniors’ championship defeat was, for sure, a major setback […]
Photo: @Smart_lotto (Sportsfile/Piaras Ó Mídheach) We’ve named our team to play Derry in tomorrow’s All-Ireland U20 semi-final at Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada in Carrick-on-Shannon (throw-in 4pm). Here it is: Mayo (All-Ireland U20 semi-final v Derry, 14/7/2018): Patrick O’Malley (Westport); Johnny Maughan (Castlebar Mitchels), Brian O’Malley (Westport), John Cunnane (Ballyhaunis); Paul Lambert (Westport), Cathal Horan (Kilmovee), Oisin McLaughlin (Westport); Evan O’Brien (Ballinrobe), […]
Photo: @MayoGAA The county’s hurlers don’t, I confess, get much of a look-in here on the site at the best of times. But with this mini-break on the football side of the house, it’s worth giving the hurlers’ endeavours a mention. Last year was a poor one for the county’s small ball devotees. They finished one off the bottom of […]
The crowd in the stand at MacHale Park rose in unison in the dying moments of Saturday evening’s rollercoaster qualifier tie against Derry as Footballer of the Year Lee Keegan was helped off the field. He was hobbling badly at that stage, raising obvious concerns about whether or not he’d be okay to go back into battle once more just […]
A bit later than usual this week but the new espisode of the Mayo News football podcast is worth the wait. The delay is all the fault of the qualifiers because, with the Round 3A draw coming hot on the heels of the win over Derry, it made sense to wait for that to facilitate the inclusion in this episode […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com It’s the qualifiers so things have to be done a bit differently. I know you were probably expecting to feast on the Sunday papers now but I’m still in the west, the old internet connection is as wobbly as our rearguard was for periods last night and I’ve other metaphorical fish to fry at the minute. I want […]