We looked like a division four team, again
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
It seems now that Mayo's dreadful display against Cork in the league final earlier this year was not a once off, but a fair reflection of where this team and management currently stands. In that final we played like a division four team. We looked every inch a division four team again last week. I realise that winning performances are not always associated with dazzling displays of individual or team brilliance. A winning performance is achieved by relentless work, harrying, hitting, running, tracking back, tackling, winning dirty balls. This is a basic requisite to be successful in championship football. That's what we wanted from our evening in Sligo. As a result of the defeat Mayo has also missed out on an attractive home tie against our old friends, Galway, in a few weeks’ time. It was planned to coincide with the official opening of the new stand, but that too must be shelved for the time being. This missed opportunity also means a very significant loss of revenue for the County Board and another hit to local businesses.
Read more ...John Holian memorial cycle race
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
Western Lakes CC is promoting the John Holian cycle race/lesiure cycle which takes place today Friday June 11. John Holian was a founder member of the Western Lakes CC, which was formed back in 1999, he was a great stalwart to cycling in Connacht acting as manager, mechanic, and driver to many Connacht teams over the years. The event will be a little different as leisure cyclists will get the opportunity to cycle the route ahead of the race, participants can do as many laps as they like.
Read more ...Mayo road race league update
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
The recent Carramore 10k was race number one in the 2010 C & C Cellular Mayo AC League and it may be a long way to the final race in December but last year’s winners Gerry Ryan (Craughwell AC) and Catherine Conway Mayo AC) put down a strong marker for the season to come by taking the maximum 25 league points on offer. Ryan is closely followed by three times league winner John Byrne (Mayo AC) and the ever improving TJ McHugh in third place. In the women’s event twice winner and last year’s runner up Mary Gleeson lies in second place with 2003 winner Angela O’Connor in third. The focus will now turn to league race number two, the Decare Claremorris five mile on Saturday evening June 26 at 6pm.
Read more ...Swinging to victory around Mayo
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
Ballyhaunis
Tony Cribben was the winner of the Knock members competition last weekend with a score of 62 nett, he just held off the challenge of John P Kelly in second place. Tom McGuire took third with a score of 64 nett while Diarmuid Finnegan won the gross prize with a score of 73 gross. In the ladies section, Kung Fanning was the winner with a score of 66 nett, one ahead of Nuala Fitzgerald in second place with Ann Greenway one further back in third place. The gross prize went to Marge Hierons with a score of 82 gross, while Conor Freeley won the junior section.
Back to the basics this weekend
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
While the post-mortem on Mayo’s inglorious exit from the Connacht championship went on over the week and will go into the future, it’s back to basics this weekend for the inter county football panel when they rejoin their club mates for the first round proper of action in the Royal Theatre senior and intermediate championships.
Section three of the senior championship, which has five teams in it, got under way a few weeks ago with Charlestown seeing off West Mayo and Westport coming home from Kiltaine with the points. This weekend Westport will host Breaffy on Sunday at 4pm in what could be one of the crucial ties of the group. Westport are on a high, having claimed the intermediate crown last year they have put in some good league performances to leave them not too far off the top sides. Going to Kiltaine was never going to be an easy ride for them, but they passed their first senior championship challenge thanks to a good showing.
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Golf President’s Day around the county
Fri, Jun 04, 2010
Balla
The President’s Day prize took place last weekend, and Billy Gallagher won the men’s section with a score of 51. Aodan MacSuibhne was second with 52 (back 9) and Dermot MacMahon won the gross with 60. In third was Bob Leggett with 52; Jim Conlon (the Presidents other half) came in fourth with 54.
Tri-burgh - the countdown is on
Fri, Jun 04, 2010
Louisburgh is looking forward to welcoming tri-athletes from all over the world on Saturday June 5 at 11am. Tri-burgh is in its inaugural year and is set to become a large part of Mayo’s growing sporting scene. An action packed fun day for all the family is promised with a kids’ relay race on the strand. Action will be centred at Carrowmore Strand just outside the town and there is plenty of parking for everyone at the beach.
Read more ...Nobody will be looking to come in through the back door
Fri, Jun 04, 2010
Irrespective of the result in Markievich Park tomorrow evening, you will meet the happy chap who will have consoling words for the losers along the lines “it's not the end of the world”, “you always have the back door”, and “anyway where were we going this year?” These platitudes may all be wonderful to the guy who hasn’t prepared for a match of this magnitude, but try telling that to the players or management of the losing side and I can guarantee you it will sound very hollow!
Read more ...Adrian Freeman a too short life
Fri, Jun 04, 2010
born in March 1986, the second child of Seamas Freeman, Kinagha, Tooreen, and Ita Larkin, Loughrea. He was the second of three children and has an elder sister Louise, who is 28 and is a doctor based in Galway. His younger brother Cathal is 20 years. Hurling was in his blood from the start with as his father Seamus represented Tooreen in many senior finals throughout the seventies and eighties. Adrian started his education in Tooreen NS in 1991 before going on to Ballyhaunis Community School in 1999. He also went to Limerick IT between 2004 and 2009, where he qualified as a civil engineer.
Read more ...League action takes a back seat to the start of the cup
Fri, Jun 04, 2010
The Connacht Gold Mayo FA Cup will take centre stage this weekend, giving clubs a break from league action. There will be 23 games spread out over Saturday evening and Sunday as every side from the lowest tier right up to the top of the Super League start off in search of cup glory. Defending champions Manulla and their opponents Westport United have an extra four days before they kick off their cup campaign next Thursday evening in Manulla. The 2008 winners of the competition Straide and Foxford United are coming off a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Iorras Aontaithe face into a potentially tricky trip to east Mayo rivals Charlestown Athletic who have five wins from five in division two. Castlebar Celtic who went down 5-2 to Manulla last weekend will welcome Achill Rovers to Celtic Park in what could be a very tricky tie for the Super League side. Achill currently sit in third place in division one table. Ballina Town who got back to winning ways in the league last weekend, will make the trip to Ballyglass to take on the central Mayo’s second string in what should be a comfortable win for the league champions with Ballyglass B having only won one game from seven in the bottom tier of Mayo football. A struggling Snugboro United will welcome Swinford B to Quigley Park who themselves are having an poor start to the season in division two. Ballyheane will make the trip north to take on Ballina United who sit four points clear of the rest in the race for promotion from division three. Swinford who have made a solid start to their Super League campaign, will head to Partry to take on a Partry Athletic side who are at the bottom of the Premier League table with only one win from seven. Fahy Rovers who have drawn three of their seven games so far in the league, but still have to pick up a win will travel to Manulla B on Saturday evening looking to pick up their first win of the season, which could springboard them on in the league to picking up and all important win in the Super League. Iorras Aontaithe who sit at the top of the Super League are coming off the back of a win over Straide and Foxford United host Crossmolina B who are in fifth place in the basement tier with three wins from five so far this season.
Read more ...Four debutantes for Saturday showdown
Fri, Jun 04, 2010
Mayo will give a championship bow to four new players on Saturday evening against Sligo. Coming into the side for their first starts in championship action are Belmullet's Chris Barrett, Breaffy's Seamus O'Shea, Aghamore's Alan Freeman, and Garrymore's Enda Varley in a new look Mayo side. There are five changes from the team that lost to Cork in the National League final, with a fit again duo of Keith Higgins coming into corner back for Liam O'Malley and Ronan McGarrity replacing the injured Alan Dillion. Tom Cunniffe will replace Trevor Howley at the lynchpin centre half back position, with O'Shea moving to centre half forward.
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