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So who’s wrong and who’s right?
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
IF CIARAN McDonald really does want to play championship football for Mayo in 2008, as he said is the case in an interview last week, and if the manager, John O’Mahony, really does want “the best players available for the campaign”, as he stated in the Western People a couple of weeks earlier, then where the heck has it all gone wrong?
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Welcome to the complaints department
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
THIS sports reporting lark, there’s times it’s not a job for the sensitive sort you know.
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U-21s keep Minor worries minor
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
FOR those supporters unlucky enough to have been made walk a mini-marathon just to get into the GAA grounds in Kiltoom for last Wednesday’s Connacht U-21 final, and therefore miss most of if not all the first half (believe me, there were the few), thankfully there was a second half of football worthy of both the double figures round trip.
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Manager’s mistreatment distracts from facts
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
OF course it wasn’t right that John Maughan should endure the taunts and abuse of a minority, but that’s just what the section of Primrose and Blue clad “customers” who hurled obscenities at recent games were - a minority.
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A good result against bad opposition
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
IT IS necessary to keep the result of last Sunday’s clash in Newbridge in perspective; Mayo romped to victory over a Kildare team that despite their league placing above base-ment boys Laois, look far and away to be the poorest side operating out of Division 1.
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When words speak louder than actions
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Whatever was or was not thrown at Kerry footballer Kieran Donaghy at McHale Park last Sunday week, by someone who probably calls themselves a Mayo football supporter but for whom other true fans would have quite a number of less complimentary names, the firm stance taken by County Board Chairman James Waldron in the aftermath of the unfortunate events was welcome.
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Brady and O’Neill: Up there with the best
Thursday, March 13, 2008
ALL good things must come to an end I suppose, and while the much coveted Celtic Cross medals never ended up in the back pockets of messrs.
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Goal misses cost Mayo their points
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
IT’S common place to hear soccer pundits refer to how the league table never lies but it’ll come as no surprise to learn that Mayo players feel a bit hard done by with their lowly placing after three games in Division 1 of the National Football League.
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A mission Mayo can accomplish
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
THAT all too familiar morning after the night before syndrome will no doubt ensure that it’s a bleary eyed and weary limbed Western People sports crew that packs its bags and faces the wheels for Portlaoise on Saturday next, the major event that is this Friday night’s Mayo Sports Stars Awards preceding the green and red’s utterly crucial trip to O’Moore Park.
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Keep the ‘Trap’ shut if you’re a Nay Sayer
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
THERE’S just no pleasing some people. No sooner had the FAI chance to confirm what Giovanni Trapattoni had already (somewhat amusingly) revealed earlier in the day i.e.
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Is the clock ticking for the FBD and its likes?
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
OKAY, so the FBD League might not be the type of competition upon which the losing teams will be hung, drawn or quartered at the end of the year but hasn’t it been slightly encouraging to see counties adopt a ‘we’re in it so let’s try and win it’ mentality rather than pay scant regard to not only the sponsors but the hardy fans who brave the wintry conditions to watch the games?
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When football is not all about results
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
SUPPORTERS in tea cosy hats and waders and Peadar Gardiner at midfield for Mayo, the FBD Insurance League and its cousins, the McKenna, O’Byrne and McGrath Cups, are instantly recognisable for being so dissimilar to the intensity, razzamatazz and hype that surrounds much of what fills the rest of the modern day inter-county football season.
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A better year than most would realise
Thursday, December 27, 2007
IT’S a strange time of year this. As sports reporters, we’re never quite sure whether we should spend the days leading up to the festive season trawling, like the rest of you, through the shops or instead, spend it trawling over all the happenings of the past 12 months so as to compile an end of year review for your musings.
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Who’s speaking for whom?
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
I thought it interesting last week when Mayo GAA Chairman James Waldron made reference to Mayo’s senior inter-county panellists and the “few (players) of them who aren’t (members of the GPA)”, interesting mainly because when reading the content of the statement released by the GPA last Friday week, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Mayo branch of the players’ representative body was speaking on behalf of the entire panel.
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Will players be asked to shelter under the GAA’s umbrella?
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
THE GPA, like a Bride-to-be tired of waiting for the proposal, decided to take the lead and make the first move.
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