Connacht need to take momentum to Italy for tricky Euro assignment
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
Connacht head to Italy with both confidence and caution to face a Zebre side desperate for their first Heineken Cup win.
Read more ...Moylette progress at world championship
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
St Anne’s BC, Westport’s Ray Moylette will go into action today in the last 32 of the IABA World Championships in Almaty in Kazakhstan against Ermek Sakenov from Kyrgyzstan in the afternoon session.
Read more ...Autumn and winter competitions ready to rumble
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
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Last weekend’s stroke competition was won by Bernie O’Connor with a score of 52, his play on the back six separated him from Aodan McSuibhnie in second place, with Martin Moylette taking third place and PJ Brett the gross prize. The ladies’ competition was won by Marie Flanagan with a score of 49, Mary B Prendergast finished in second place with Margaret Walsh finishing third and Geraldine Kilgallon the gross prize winner. Conor Holian won the junior competition on the weekend scoring 53. The final standings in the golfer of the year competition saw Aodan McSuibhnie and Bernie O’Connor share first place in the gents and Mary B O’Donnell take the ladies’ section win.
Ballina look to wrap up title
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
Ballina Town will hope they can avoid the Super League title race going right down to the wire, when they play their game in hand on title rivals Ballyheane on Sunday. Fergal Forde’s men sit one point in front of Ballyheane in the table at the moment with 28 points from 12 games, while Ballyheane have 27 points from their 13 games so far.
Read more ...Tenth podium of the season for Duffy in Cyprus
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
Mayo’s Kilian Duffy had to settle for third place along with his driver Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari last weekend in Cyprus, but it was still a remarkable 10th podium finish of the year for the Mayo based co-driver. In truly imperious form, Nasser Al-Attiyah and Giovanni Bernacchini in their Ford Fiesta RRC clinched victory and a ninth Middle-East Rallying Championship in the CNP Asfalistiki Cyprus Rally 2013.
Read more ...It was not pretty, but neither Castlebar or Breaffy will mind
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
The two hot favourites rightfully claimed their place in the county senior football final to be played on October 28. In the opening game Breaffy easily disposed of Charlestown in a poor encounter. The Charlestown team started lively but after the 15th minute the two O’Shea brothers took over at midfield with Alan Durcan and Liam Irwin benefiting the most with both of them scoring some fine points from play. Charlestown will be very disappointed the way they surrendered this game without any real fight. They looked to have lacked any idea and invention, very often having to rely on a hopeful ball into first Paul and then Anthony Mulligan in the second half.
Michéal Jennings, the Breaffy centre-back, mopped up an ocean of ball sitting just in front of his full back from the punts into the full-forward line. Tom Parsons tried his best for the Sarsfields but played second fiddle to the impressive All-Star nominees, Aiden and Seamus O’Shea. Declan O’Reilly had his team playing with great confidence and his half-forward line worked extremely hard when the O’Sheas did not win clean ball in the middle third. It was amazing as it was Breaffy’s first senior final, and instead of joyous celebrations after the game which I expected, the Breaffy players and management just nodded at each other for a job well done. It was like they expected it and know there is a bigger test ahead. I have to also commend Mark and David Caffrey for playing for Charlestown only two days after burying their mother Kathleen, she would have been very proud of her sons as they are proud Charlestown players.
Read more ...Kiltane look to keep up winning ways
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
When Kiltane were relegated from the senior championship at the tail end of last year by Ballina Stephenites, the Bangor club’s proud record of retaining their senior status against the odds lay in tatters. But the proud men of Erris were not going to take the disappointment lying down and they set about ensuring that they were back with the big guns of club football in Mayo as soon as possible, and they achieved that a couple of weeks ago, by claiming the Sweeney Cup in some style.
Read more ...Horan holds ‘positive’ meeting with county board
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
Mayo manager James Horan held what was described as a “positive” meeting with members of the executive of the Mayo county board on Tuesday night, according to Mike Connelly, vice-chairman of the Mayo county board. Speaking to the Mayo Advertiser, Connelly said: “There’s not a lot really to report from it, it was a very positive meeting with James and we’ll be meeting with him again next week.”
Horan has given a commitment to stay on for next year according to Connelly when asked had he said, “yes”. But there are a few changes in the back-room team coming up for next year according to the official who said: “He’ll probably be making a few changes, but he hasn’t finalised that yet, we’d a good meeting and we looked back on last year and forward to 2014 and what we can do, we also spent time discussing the team holiday which all the lads are entitled to have earned this year.”
Read more ...Breaffy book a date with Castlebar in senior final
Sun, Oct 13, 2013
It'll be hard to find a county final that will have as close of neighbors going toe-toe in it, and have two brothers lining up in opposite colours (Tommy O'Reilly for Breaffy and Eoghan O'Reilly for Castlebar), but that's what this years Mayo senior football championship final has in store in a fortnight's time. Breaffy booked their very first appearance int he final with a historic win over Charlestown, while Castlebar Mitchels overcame Knockmore, despite being without the services of their man-of-the-match from last weeks quarter-final win over Ballina Stephenites ,Barry Moran and losing Aidan Walsh early in the game through injury. Mitchels beat Breaffy comprehensively in the group stages of the championship back in early summer, but Declan O'Reilly's have inflicted a defeat on Pat Holmes' side this year with a win in the opening league game of the season.
Read more ...Cill Chomain seal junior title with first half double
Sun, Oct 13, 2013
Cill Chomain 2-12
Ardnaree 1-7
Old rivals get ready to do battle again
Fri, Oct 11, 2013
One was once the name to beat in hurling for years and the other has taken up that mantle and is going in search of its sixth Mayo senior championship in a row. The TJ Tyrell cup has wintered in Tooreen 26 times in the past, but it has been ten years since it last headed in that direction and since 2008 he has made his home in Ballyhaunis. On Sunday in Ballyhaunis at 2pm both sides will meet once again in the Mayo senior hurling championship final.
Read more ...The final four showdown this weekend
Fri, Oct 11, 2013
It was a weekend for shocks and surprises last weekend as the two teams who have won the last three Moclair cups between them bowed out at the quarter-final stage. The biggest surprise of the weekend arguably was Breaffy’s victory over Ballaghaderreen in the first of Sunday’s games.
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