Ballina Dolphins shine at Limerick gala
Fri, Mar 25, 2011
Jennifer Ward and Shane Dunne from the Ballina Dolphins club shone at one of Ireland’s top swimming galas, the Gerry Ryan Limerick Invitational, recently. Jennifer Ward came second in the 800m front crawl, third in the 400m front crawl, fourth in the 200m front crawl, third in the 50m breast stroke, third in the 50m butterfly, and cut 5.5 seconds off her best time in the 200m individual medley. Shane Dunne hit a division one time in the 100m front crawl and knocked a massive 9.5 seconds off his personal best for the 200m individual medley.
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Mayo stages a huge success
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
A year ago Kevin Barrett was the runner-up who had to watch as Melvyn Evans sprayed the victory champagne on the finish ramp of the 2010 Mayo Stages Rally. Twelve months on and there was no watching from the sidelines. This time around the genial Kildare man not just won the Mayo Stages Rally, he dominated it.
Read more ...Mayo athletics awards handed out
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
Four Mayo AC members were among the winners at the 2010 C and C Cellular/ Mayo AAI County Board Awards function held in the Park Hotel Kiltimagh on Sunday last.
Read more ...Davitt College look to put the past to right
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
Tomorrow afternoon Davitt College Castlebar will go to Ballinasloe looking to put the memory of five defeats in All Ireland finals behind them and bring home a national crown to the school. Standing in their way on Saturday when the ball is thrown in at 2pm in Ballinasloe is Leinster champions Cnoc Mhuire, Granard.
Read more ...Sports Shorts
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
Angling
Angling season casts off
Angling season casts off
Read more ...Tight finishes in club competitions across Mayo
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
Balla
In last weekend’s stableford competition James Lavin was the winner of the gents’ section with a score of 38pts. He managed to hold off the challenge of Padraig Joyce in second place who finished on 36pts. Vinny Gibbons claimed third place also with a score of 36pts, finishing behind Joyce courtesy of the second placed man’s score on the back nine. In the ladies’ competition Geraldine O’Malley came home ahead of the pack with a score of 34pts. She finished one point clear of Pat Dillon in second place and Julie Loftus claimed third with a score of 32pts.
Mayo GAA Fixtures
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
Saturday March 19
Connacht Minor League (At 11.45pm)
Horan’s Mayo aim to avoid capital punishment
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
Another Sunday and another chance for James Horan to see how far his project as Mayo manager has progressed. This time a trip to the capital awaits Mayo and their supporters against the form team of this year’s National Football League in GAA headquarters is on the menu. The Dubs’ have won four out of four in this years league term and look to be in flying form.
Read more ...Strategic plan committee to address next county board meeting
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
The steering committee for the recently published Mayo GAA Draft Strategic Action Plan will be in attendance at the next meeting of the Mayo County Board. Chairperson of the committee, Liam Horan attended a meeting of the executive of the county board last Monday night to discuss the plan with the executive officers of the county board in what.
Speaking to the Mayo Advertiser this week, Mr Horan said that the meeting on Monday night went well. “I feel that that meeting went very well on Monday night, I got to go in and sit down with the executive and go over the plan with them. What came out of it is that the steering committee who drew up the plan will all be invited to attended the next meeting of the county board where we will be able to answer any questions that the clubs or the executive may have. We always aimed to have the committee at a meeting of the county board to hand it over to the clubs and the executive and let them take it from there, either adopting it or making any amendments they may want to it.”
Read more ...Bad weekend for Mayo sides
Mon, Mar 14, 2011
A weekend that promised a lot delivered very little for Mayo football followers, apart from more questions. On Saturday a very fancied u21 team went into battle against Roscommon in McHale Park in the preliminary round of the Connacht championship and were dumped out of the competition at the first hurdle. On paper Mayo had a team full of players who would have had designs on at least a Connacht title if not more. But when it came to the crunch, too many players did not show up and they were just passengers on they day when Roscommon won out by 0-11 to 0-9 in Castlebar.
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