We know just how hard it is to beat Dublin. But whatever ambition any team might have of doing so, it can only realistically hope to succeed if it keeps fifteen players on the pitch against them. Tonight, however, an incredibly harsh straight red card issued to Jordan Flynn after just fifteen minutes meant we had to face the five-in-a-row […]
After all the hype and all the chatter – which made it sound like it was the first bloody All-Ireland to be contested in a decade – the day ends with no winner. They go again on Saturday week. Letdowns don’t come much greater than All-Ireland finals that end all-square. I’ve been in Croke Park to witness such an outcome […]
Photo: Balls.ie The Connacht championship launch took place at the Centre of Excellence in Bekan yesterday and there’s a fair bit of coverage arising from it in the papers today. Mike Finnerty was there for the Mayo News football podcast and you can hear more on that when the episode goes online later on tonight. Stephen Rochford was there to […]
Photo: SportsJoe.ie It’s a wet, windy and fairly mild Wednesday morning but The Best From the East 2.0 is due to hit this weekend, though weather reports this morning suggest that there’s unlikely to be much in the way of snow this time around. We can, though, expect bracing conditions for the Bank Holiday weekend, up to and including Sunday […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com Yesterday’s confirmation that Evan Regan had suffered a “facial bone fracture and concussion injury” arising from that disgusting, late hit by Kerry’s Ronan Shanahan the last night means that a player bedevilled with serious injury is once more consigned to the sidelines. The Mayo News (paper and digital variants) reports this morning that Evan is likely to be […]
Time to start looking ahead, if you haven’t already begun to do so, to our next match in this year’s National Football League. It’s Kerry for us in this one, under the lights at at MacHale Park on Saturday evening (throw-in 7pm). I guess we’ll be naming our team as usual on Friday evening but ahead of that there are a […]
Photo: Independent.ie It won’t really come as a shock to anyone as it’s an appointment that was widely expected in advance but it was confirmed earlier on this evening that Cavan’s Joe McQuillan will be the man with the whistle in this year’s All-Ireland final. It’ll be his third decider, having also reffed the 2011 and 2013 ones. We’ve seen a […]
Photo: Sportsfile/Piaras O Midheach It was confirmed a bit earlier on this afternoon that Meath’s David Gough will ref Saturday’s replay. The Dublin-based official took charge of this year’s Connacht final and he was also the man in the middle in last year’s All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Kerry. The last time we’ve come across him was in last year’s […]
It’s midweek once more, Sunday’s dramatic draw with the Rossies disappearing from sight in the rearview mirror while up ahead Monday’s replay against the same opposition draws ever closer. As it does, the next instalment in what is already in so many respects an incredible championship campaign for the county is set to be unveiled. When Monday comes around, Roscommon’s […]
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 […]