Castlebar parkrun celebrates its first birthday

Fri, Mar 06, 2015

The weekly parkrun event held in Castlebar at Lough Lannagh, will celebrate its first anniversary tomorrow Saturday, March 7. The event organisers are hosting a party in Castlebar Tennis Club afterwards to mark the occasion.

Are you ready to take on the Rooster Booster?

Fri, Mar 06, 2015

The newly revamped Castlebar Adventure Duathlon on Saturday March 14 was launched at the shores of Lough Lannagh recently by the noted endurance man Gerry Duffy, Gerry Duffy is no stranger to adventure racing and has competed on the circuit many a time, also there to lend her support was Joanne Grehan, CEO of Mayo Local enterprise, stating that this event will be huge for Castlebar.

It’s all about collecting the points for Higgins

Mon, Mar 02, 2015

Mayo captain Keith Higgins was happy to have the two points in the bag after his sides comprehensive win over Monaghan on Sunday, but he was realistic enough to know that the dismissal of two Farney men had a lot to do with the large gap on the scoreboard.

O'Shea stars as Mayo run out easy winners

Sun, Mar 01, 2015

Mayo picked up their second win in this years National Football League on Sunday in Elverys MacHale Park, when they saw off Monaghan in an ill disciplined affair that saw two Monaghan players sent off, along two black cards being issued by referee Rory Hickey in a contest that was punctured by numerous scuffles off the ball. In truth Hickey seemed to lose control of the game early in the second half as fracas broke out all over the field.

Durcan living the dream with Mayo

Sun, Mar 01, 2015

He's been earmarked as one of the players who could have a breakout year with Mayo this season, but for Castlebar Mitchels defender Patrick Durcan it's all about working hard and improving each week.

Holmes happy with improvement shown

Sun, Mar 01, 2015

Mayo joint manager Pat Holmes was happy with his sides performance on Sunday in their win over Monaghan, but there's still plenty room of improvement he said: “We created loads of chances, we have a bit of work to do yet and things to improve on, but we were looking for an improvement on our performance the last day, we would have been disappointed with that but we knew that we were better than we showed the last day and in fairness to the boys they came out and played very, very well.”

Gerald’s look to pass semifinal exam

Fri, Feb 27, 2015

The defending Connacht Colleges Senior A Football Championship champions, St Gerald’s College, Castlebar, will be looking to get back into the final of the competition tomorrow when they take on Roscommon CBS in the semifinal of the premier schools football championship in the province.

Ballyhaunis Community School enters new hurling territory

Fri, Feb 27, 2015

Tomorrow will see a novel pairing in this year’s Connacht Colleges Senior C Hurling final, as Ballyhaunis Community School make the journey to Kenny Park in Athenry to play Mercy College, Woodford.

Mayo look to follow up Dublin win against Tyrone

Fri, Feb 27, 2015

Frank Browne’s Mayo ladies made it two wins from three last Sunday when they saw off the challenge of Dublin by five points in DCU.

Lam hopeful Muliaina will be fit for Treviso test

Fri, Feb 27, 2015

After two visits to Wales in the Pro 12, Connacht look forward to their return to the Sportsground (Sunday 5.15pm) and the opportunity to consolidate their top six position.

The first of many hard decisions for Holmes and Connolly

Fri, Feb 27, 2015

Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly had to make the first big decisions of their tenure as Mayo joint managers when culling the panel after a recent challenge game against Clare. The two biggest and most talked about casualties are Gavin Duffy and Enda Varley. Duffy’s inclusion in the panel last year certainly gave the county a lift with his professional athletic background and obvious experience of big match days. However as the year went on and there was no sight of him in a Mayo jersey his much anticipated return to a Mayo jersey became more of a fascination with “what was the point in having him in the panel”. I was at every Mayo match last year and on every occasion his whereabouts was discussed by media men and women from all over the country.

Despite his ineligibility to play for Mayo in 2014 which only came to light last month, I don’t think Duffy was considered for a place in James Horan’s match day panel until the replay against Kerry in Limerick, where he was probably being considered as an alternative to curb the threat of Kieran Donaghy, only for Horan to find out about his ineligibility a few days before the replay. I have said this on many occasions, with the exceptional condition and physicality of the modern GAA player, a rugby international back like Duffy would not stand out physically in a GAA dressing room.

Farney army come calling to Castlebar

Fri, Feb 27, 2015

The last time Mayo faced Monaghan in the National Football League was four years ago, they lost out to the Ulster men by two points in the village of Inniskeen. Mayo’s visit back then to the home of Patrick Kavanagh gave them plenty of food for thought and set them off on an adventure that would see them reach two All Ireland finals and two All Ireland semi-finals over the next four summers.

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