Mayo sides given testing Connacht Cup tasks

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

There are eight Mayo sides left in the Connacht Junior Cup after last Sunday’s third round of action. The competition now moves forward to the last 16 with only three games between those remaining and a place in the final. The first of those fourth round games takes place this Sunday when Manulla host St Patrick’s in Carramore at 2pm. The Galway side currently are sitting second bottom of the Western Hygiene Supplies Premier Division with just one win from their 11 games so far this season. Manulla will be hoping they have the quality to breach a defence that has conceded 36 goals in league football already this season.

Paddy Kelly named as 2014 Mayo Athletic Hall of Fame recipient

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

All roads lead to Hotel Westport on Sunday, February 1, when Aughagower AC will this year host the 2014 C & C Cellular/Vodafone Mayo Athletic Awards. Athletes from all over Mayo will be honoured for their contribution to athletics during the past year. Certificates or awards will be presented to all athletes who won national and International medals in 2014. On the night some 130 awards will be presented.

Roscommon stand between Mayo and final spot

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

The unfamiliar surrounds of Rathcline GAA Club in Cloneboney, Lanesborough, is the next stop of the road for Niall Heffernan’s Mayo u21s this Saturday in the semi-final of the Hastings Cup. Standing in the way of Mayo and a place in the final against either Galway or Leitrim is another Connacht side in the shape of Roscommon.

Heffernan’s side have so far overcome the challenge of Westmeath, Monaghan, and most recently Wicklow in the group stages of the competition to book their place in the last four of the competition against a fancied Roscommon side. The Connacht championship itself is excepted to be a very tough contest this year with all four of the Hastings Cup semi-finalists having serious designs on winning the provincial title.

Moylette goes for national title tonight

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

St Anne’s boxer Ray Moylette will be looking to bring the National Elite championship home with him this evening when he steps into the squared circle in the National Stadium. Moylette will face off against the defending champion Dean Walsh from the St Joseph’s/St Ibar’s club in the light-welterweight final. Moylette overcame the challenge of his old foe Ross Hickey in last Friday night’s semi-final in impressive style.

Roscommon lay down an early season marker

Sun, Jan 18, 2015

Mayo's interest in the FBD League ended in Elverys MacHale Park on Sunday when an hungry and slicker Roscommon team went home with the points and the provincial bragging rights thanks to a five point win over the Connacht champions.

FBD a useful exercise, but attention now turns to the league

Sun, Jan 18, 2015

Following Mayo's defeat to Roscommon in MacHale Park for the first time since 1986 in the FBD League on Sunday afternoon, it's all eyes on Mayo's next game against Kerry in the opening round of the National Football League on the first Sunday in February. Speaking after the Roscommon game, joint Mayo manager Pat Holmes said that his side have a few injury worries still to clean up ahead of the contest. “Injuries are clearing up and we're hoping that Keith Higgins would be back playing football next weekend. Aidan O'Shea is a wee bit away and Ger Cafferkey has a back strain, so were getting closer to a full panel. We're happy from that point of view” he said. As for the two most experienced outfield players in the panel Andy Moran and Alan Dillon, it will be a bit further into the Spring before we see them in green and red he said, “They will be more long term, they won't be playing football for the next month or so anyway.”

Three from three for Heffernan’s u21s

Sat, Jan 17, 2015

Niall Heffernan’s Mayo u21 side picked up their third win on the trot, with an industrious if not overly impressive display in James Stephens Park in Ballina on Saturday. Heffernan made five changes from the starting 15 that lined out the previous Saturday against Monaghan in the same venue.

Heffernan happy with progress

Sat, Jan 17, 2015

Mayo u21 manager Niall Heffernan admitted after his sides win over Wicklow in the third round of the Hastings Cup in Ballina on Saturday, that it can be tough at times trying to get his squad together at this stage of the year as demands are placed on his players from a number of teams.

Speaking after the game on Saturday and asked was it difficult having to make a number of changes each week as he tries to figure out his starting 15 he said: “Absolutely, would love to have all the players. I’d love if we’d a situation in Mayo where we had all our players with us all the time, but that’s not the situation we have. So I have to deal with the reality of that. But having said that, when you have a panel of 30 players, you do need to give guys who haven’t got game time a game to start, give them a chance. So we set ourselves a target to win our three games and also give players a start to chance in each game and we’ve done that with three or four changes, not taking into account any that were enforced on us by players not being available and we still have several players injured that we’re hoping to see in the next game.”

Holmes and Connelly face into first county test

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

The Mayo senior football team have got 2015 off to a winning start on the double following their back-to-back wins over NUIG and Sligo IT in the last fortnight.

Moylette in semi-final action at Elite Championships

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

Former World Youth and European senior champion Ray Moylette from St Anne’s Boxing Club in Westport is in action in the semi-finals of the Irish Elite Championships this evening (Friday, January 16).

Moylette overcame the challenge of Jason Conroy 3-0 in last weekend’s quarter-finals 3-0 in the National Stadium in Dublin.

Connacht prepare to knock Chiefs off top spot

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

Billed as a winner-takes-all contest, Connacht and Exeter meet on Sunday (3.15pm) in this season’s  penultimate Challenge Cup pool fixture at the Galway Sportsground

Bulls push on with bonus point win

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

Westport moved ahead of rivals Ballinasloe in the race for a place in the All Ireland Junior Cup last weekend, thanks to a comprehensive bonus point win over OLBC in Carrowholly. With two games left to go for both sides, the Mayo side edged their noses in front in the race by a point, while fifth place Corinthians cannot be ruled out yet as they still have three games left and are only three points behind Westport in the table.

Westport secured the win thanks to two tries from Kevin Corcoran along with one each from Liam Scahill, Ed Moran, and Kevin Gill. Next up for JP Walsh’s side is a trip away to a struggling Galwegians on Sunday. The Galway outfit were also in action last weekend against Mayo, where they tasted defeat to Ballina.

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