A week is a long time in football

Fri, Oct 09, 2015

Mayo are on the look out for a new senior football manager after the inevitable resigning of joint managers Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly last Friday night. It was a somewhat embarrassing saga in the Mayo GAA family that such an event occurred. By the time Noel and Pat resigned I had simply had enough. I was so drained from talking about it and anxiously waiting for any developments that I was relieved there was closure.

Familiar faces square off again in hurling decider

Fri, Oct 09, 2015

The Mayo hurling fraternity will be out in force on Sunday afternoon, when the latest chapter in one of the greatest battles of the ages is written in east Mayo. The meeting of these two near neighbours in the county decider has become an annual event in recent times, with the hosts on Sunday having the upper hand in recent years. Tooreen may be the grandaddies of the game in the county with 27 titles under their belts, but Ballyhaunis are most certainly the team of this millennium, having won all of their 10 titles since 2002.In that time span they have put together a three-in-a-row run and more impressively a five-in-a-row sequence stretching from 2008 through to 2012. The team that stopped them making it six-in-a-row was, of course, Tooreen who claimed their first title in 10 years in 2013 with a memorable 4-10 to 1-6 win in Ballyhaunis.

Senior final spots up for grabs

Fri, Oct 09, 2015

Breaffy v Ballintubber
Sunday October 11 at 1pm

Super League final leg kicks off this weekend

Fri, Oct 09, 2015

Straide and Foxford United v Westport United
Saturday October 10 at 5pm

Mayo sides look to keep up good start

Fri, Oct 09, 2015

Junior 1A
Connemara v Ballina

Connemara v Ballina

MacHale and McGee hold their bottle in Cork

Fri, Oct 09, 2015

In a busy weekend for Mayo and District Motorsport Club members the highlight was down south at the Cork 20 International Rally. Aaron MacHale and Paul McGee were crowned the 2015 Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Group N Champions with a 10th place finish overall, giving them the necessary points to take the crown.

Five of the best for Knockmore

Sun, Oct 04, 2015

Knockmore made the short tip from the shores of Lough Conn into Ballina on Saturday evening and went back home with a place in next Sunday’s senior football semi-final in their back pocket. Next time out they will be looking to put to bed the nightmare that was last years semi-final appearance when Ballintubber put nine in the back of their net at the last four stage.

The Neale hit new heights with powerful display

Sun, Oct 04, 2015

Just three years on from claiming their first ever adult county title in their then 110 year history when they won a dramatic junior final, after extra time and in a replay. The Neale who have a pyramid on their club crest, took another step on the Mayo GAA pyramid when they booked their place in this years intermediate championship final.

This was no smash and grab raid against a much more vaunted side, this was a victory won in swashbuckling style with their full forward line of Paddy Hopkins, Sean Cosgrove and Aidan O’Sullivan tormenting the Moy Davitts rearguard all day long. That trio were well backed by the likes of the Steven Conroy whose all action running display, cut through the heart of the Moy Davitts defence with clockwork regularity, while Simon Ryan and Robert Holian were both equally impressive.

Coen stars as Hollymount-Carramore make it back to intermediate decider

Sun, Oct 04, 2015

Darren Coen was the star attraction as Hollymount-Carramore sealed their spot in this years intermediate championship final, the South Mayo sides attacker hit a rich vein of form kicking eight points over the hour.

Of course it wasn’t just one player to the fore, both Kevin and Ian Costello put in big shifts for the winners with Stephen Coen also putting himself about very well over the course of the contest, back boning a win that now sets up an all south Mayo final in a fortnights time.

Holmes and Connelly step down from hot seat

Fri, Oct 02, 2015

Mayo are on the look out for a new senior manager after the resignation of Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly this evening (Friday, October 2). The decision of the pair to step down brings to an end a week of intense speculation around the county after it emerged that the senior panel had at a meeting voted no confidence in the management after just one year in charge of the senior side.

We need to find a solution to this now

Fri, Oct 02, 2015

In this week’s column I expected to be wallowing about the glorious weather and plethora of club games in Mayo last weekend, that is as much of a mention it will get unfortunately. Just when we thought the dust had settled on our 2015 Championship we were greeted with the earth shattering news on Tuesday morning that there were major problems in the Mayo GAA family. The first murmur I heard was when the principal of St Attracta’s NS in Charlestown (Brian McDermott, an avid Mayo supporter) mentioned it to me in the school assembly yard at 9am. I walked back to work receiving texts saying “turn on the radio”. One message from England said “what the hell has happened”, I had no idea what was going on. For the rest of Tuesday my phone hopped as I spoke to countless journalists, radio stations, and even did a piece with Marty Morrissey for the Six One News. The media world was gone crazy looking for the story. The Mayo players had issued a vote of “no confidence” in the management.

Players turn out in force for meeting with executive

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

As the fog descended on Castlebar tonight (Thursday, October 1), a large contingent of this years Mayo senior squad arrived at the ground to meet with top officials from the county board. It had been expected that a small delegation from the panel would be at the meeting, but the turn out of the vast majority of the panel was not expected.

The meeting didn't last that long and the players left without making any comment on the the situation that has taken over the county in the past few days, since news of the no confidence motion passed by the players in the current management leaked into the local media on Tuesday morning.

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