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Effy, Effy, who the heck is Effy?
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
WE’VE heard them struggle with Doherty; think of our special guest at last week’s Mayo Sports Stars Awards Ken Dockerty.
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The purpose of coaching the coaches
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
SELF-SUFFICIENCY. It was the major theme of Liam O’Neill’s address to GAA officials last Thursday night, as Connacht Council rolled out over 40 coaching tutors, some new, some old, whose job it is to spread the GAA’s coaching gospel the National Coach Education Programme and to train the association’s team coaches.
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Who says the league means nothing?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Perspective. That was one of the words uttered by Declan Kidney following Ireland’s comprehensive loss in France last Saturday.
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The night the ground trembled
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I was playing 5-a-side soccer on astro turf last Wednesday night.
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The FBD – a forgotten competition?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
AFTER Mayo’s opening round win against NUI Galway, I doubt anyone rushed out to the travel agents and booked their American flights in anticipation of them reaching next October’s FBD Insurance League final in New York.
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Serious Ó Sé or playful Paídí?
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
IT seems that a Crystal Ball was not among the Christmas gifts received by Mayo boss John O’Mahony who claims not to have the same psychic powers of Paídí Ó Sé who believes he’d guide the Green and Red to All-Ireland glory, no bother!
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The mystery of Mag and Wag
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
I WASN'T sure was it that a new magazine catering for the better half of every GAA player was the target of Sean Feeney’s ire when first hearing of his report to last night’s (Monday) County Convention.
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Time to change the calendar?
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
IT was when passing through Longford Town last Saturday, on route to the All-Ireland mission of Mayo Masters, that I spied a single brown leather, musty, well-worn ice skate in the window of Edward J Valentine’s Public House.
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Ireland left watching from the ditch
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
It’s sad, so sad, it’s a sad, sad situation. And it’s getting more and more absurd ... And sorry seems to be the hardest word.”
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Front door frustration on the cards?
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
WIN OR lose their opening round visit to Sligo, there’s much to like about the draw Mayo have been handed for the 2010 Connacht senior football championship.
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Passion that money just couldn’t buy
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
IT’S WHEN levels of effort are produced akin to those of the footballers of Belmullet and Cill Chomain last Sunday that you begin to think that perhaps GAA players are actually deserving of payment.
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Mayo’s attitude needs to harden
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
WITH their 36 All-Ireland senior wins to our miserly three, I’ll hardly join the theological ranks for recognising that there are obvious differences between the average Kerry and Mayo senior inter-county footballer.
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FATE: False And Torturous Expectations
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
On this week in September 1985, rockers David Bowie and Mick Jagger had every reason to be dancing in the street when top-ping the charts with, aptly enough, Dancing in the Street.
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Tipp’ best not as good as ‘The Greatest’
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
“I BET it’s less than a hundred,” exclaimed Michael Gallagher, leaning over the bodies resting between us and our Lower Hogan Stand seats.
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So much for wanting to move on
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
NO MORE than my misjudgement of the incoming ball that cost Moy Davitts a crucial goal to Claremorris in the 1999 county U-21 football championship (in fairness, I turned up employed by Willie ‘The Shoe’ only to report on the game and not expecting to be handed boots and the goalkeeper’s jersey!)
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