Tag: Mayo GAA Blog
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Humble Messiah O’Mahony’s greatness lay in his quiet approach
Joe Brolly tells a story about the late former Derry manager Eamonn Coleman pulling a newspaper cutting out of his back pocket minutes before the team were due to take the field for a crunch Ulster SFC encounter. The cutting was an ‘article’ in which a player – possibly Tony Scullion but I can’t swear…
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Sideline Cuts 28 – Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one
In the dark old days of the National Leagues before each division (rightly) was seen as a separate competition which their own Final, trophy and the like, the knockout stages went in such a way that whoever qualified from Div. 1 played whatever team came out of the fourth tier. Thus, it went that whoever…
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BOYLAN TALKS SPORT FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE YEAR
RAYMOND GALLIGAN – CAVAN 2. MICK FITZSIMONS – DUBLIN 3. OISIN MULLEN – MAYO 4. DAVID BYRNE = DUBLIN 5. JAMES MCCARTHY – DUBLIN 6. CIARAN BRADY – CAVAN 7. PADDY DURCAN – MAYO 8. BRIAN FENTON – DUBLIN 9. MATTHEW RUANE – MAYO 10. BRIAN FOX – TIPPERARY 11. CIARAN KILKENNY – DUBLIN MICHAEL…
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If you want something done right do it yourself
Dublin……2-14 Mayo…… 0-15 This may be stating the blindingly obvious, but, not too much time ever elapses between one wish that things could be different and the next. Maybe everybody has such thoughts. However, in my case, it will probably stun some to hear and admission that I do not mean by way of having…
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A different flavour to Mayo but they’re still too generous
“There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week” is surely one of the most famous lines ever uttered during a sports commentayy in this country. So much so that it is regularly trotted out in the most ill-fitting of scenarios going. The quip has aged much better than he who spoke the…