Photo: Independent.ie The draw has just been made for Round 2A of the qualifiers and we’ve been drawn to play Derry at home. Precise fixture details for all the Round 2A ties, which are due to be played on the weekend of 1st/2nd July, are expected to be confirmed by the GAA later on today.
Photo: @MayoGAA The full-time whistle sounded a bit earlier on at Ballinamore in the Christy Ring promotion/relegation play-off and it’s our lads who came out on top, winning on a scoreline of 1-21 to 1-14. So after a year down in the third tier the hurlers will be back competing for the Christy Ring Cup again in 2017. While today’s game […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com Sticking with the hurlers for a just a bit longer, it was announced today that the Christy Ring promotion/relegation play-off will take place this coming Saturday (11th June). JP Coen’s charges will face off that afternoon against Derry in Ballinamore, Leitrim, at 3pm to decide which of them gets to play in hurling’s second tier championship next year and which operates […]
I had a ridiculously early morning this morning so I can’t leave it any longer tonight to bring the shutters down on the Man of the Match poll from yesterday’s game against Derry. This week’s one was close enough but, with 24% of all votes cast, this week’s MOTM award goes to Seamus O’Shea whose commanding performance in the middle […]
Photo: @MayoClub51 Early start, early flight coming up so here’s a very brief round-up of the reports on yesterday’s win over Derry. Mayo Advertiser (match report, quotes from Noel Connelly), GAA, RTÉ, BBC, The 42, Hogan Stand, Breaking News, Irish Times (paywall), Irish Independent. No sign of anything on the Irish Examiner website at this early hour. That piece with Noel […]
Photo: Sportsfile/Paul Mohan As the last frantic seconds played out up at Celtic Park today, I was stuck in a Sunday afternoon traffic snarl at Clare Hall on Dublin’s Northside. I had the commentary from Midwest going on the iPhone and the tension was fairly palpable as the lads were willing the ref to blow the full-time whistle. When he […]
This is just a quick pre-match one, which kinda needs to be quick as there’s less than three hours to go now ’till throw-in at Celtic Park. I’m missing out on this one and, to be honest, I’ll only catch the action today in snatches as I have the delights of an U12 girls match to go myself to this […]
The team to play Derry up in Celtic Park in the fourth round of this year’s League campaign (throw-in 2.30pm) was named a short while ago. Here’s the starting fifteen we’ve named: Mayo (NFL Division One v Derry 8/3/2015): Kenneth O’Malley (Ballinrobe); Tom Cunniffe (Castlebar Mitchels), Kevin Keane (Westport), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis); Lee Keegan (Westport), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Colm Boyle […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com It’s midweek already and so in the midst of this helter-skelter period of matches we’re already counting down to the next one, which see us taking on Derry up at Celtic Park on Sunday. Throw-in for this one is at the slightly later time of 2.30pm, as it’s a double-header with the 12.45pm curtain-raiser featuring the Oakleafers against Carlow […]
That report in the Mayo News that was mentioned in the comments earlier on is here and it confirms that further changes to the starting fifteen are certain to be made for Sunday’s trip to Celtic Park. With the U21s starting their Connacht championship campaign in a week’s time, it’s no surprise that Stephen Coen, Patrick Durcan and Diarmuid O’Connor […]