Win or lose yesterday, the minors were guaranteed a place in the All-Ireland quarter-finals but the lads’ victory over Galway at McHale Park not only secured the Kilcoyne Cup for the third summer on the trot, it also meant that we were guaranteed a last eight tie against the beaten finalists in Leinster – Offaly – and not that province’s […]
It was, deservedly, the Rossies who left McHale Park today with most of the plaudits and fair play to them too for the way that they made such a nonsense of those (admittedly daft) pre-match odds to seize an unexpected 20th Connacht title over a Sligo side that failed to reach the highs they achieved when beating ourselves and Galway […]
It’s Connacht final day and here’s hoping that our lads can make it three Connacht titles in a row at minor level this afternoon when they square up to Galway on the undercard at McHale Park (throw-in 1.30 pm). I’ll be following this one from afar, having got my fix of live action along with the little lad yesterday at […]
We’re faced with the highly unusual situation this coming Sunday of a Connacht final taking place at McHale Park but where our lads aren’t one of the protagonists. We are, however, involved in the minor decider which throws in at 1.30 pm and where our opponents are Galway. Our team (and subs) for this match has just been named and […]
Nobody in their right mind would seek to justify the stupid, mindless physical attacks made on referee Martin Sludden in the chaotic aftermath to today’s Leinster final at Croke Park. Regardless of what any supporter thinks about a referee’s performance, such cretinous carry-on cannot and should not be allowed to happen on a Gaelic football field. Every effort should be […]
The minors have made it to the Connacht final: they beat Leitrim by 2-12 to 1-7 in this afternoon’s semi-final, which concluded a few minutes ago at Markievicz Park. They now face Galway in the final in two weeks time, with the venue for the decider dependent on who wins the senior replay between Sligo and Galway that’ll get underway […]
As we put some daylight between ourselves and yesterday evening’s car crash exit from the championship, we’re left with the reality of having no inter-county football to look forward to, at senior level at least, for several months now. The FBD World Series final against New York in October is as good as it gets for us at this stage, […]
Well, he certainly went out with a bang, didn’t he? It’s been obvious for some time that the Johnno II era was destined to end in ignominious failure but tonight’s toe-curling defeat to a very limited, though game Longford team ensured that this wasn’t to be any old failure. No, this was failure on a truly heroic scale as, just […]
Two Mayo teams are in action later on today and, at the risk of doing the Kerryman on it, here’s hoping for two wins. I’m heading out the door before too long and will be doing a few live updates via Twitter at the game, as will the lads at Club Mayo, while the Mayo News are also planning on doing […]
This is just a quick one, at the end of a head-wrecking week of work and with a few days in the desert facing me next week where, as it were, I have to see a man about a camel. In between, tomorrow to be precise, we have two championship matches involving the county’s footballers and, before all that, my […]