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Pearly whites and the sky at night
02 February 2012
THE planet Venus that was visible beside the crescent moon which shone brightly above Castlebar is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, two words you wouldn’t normally associate with FBD League football.
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Managers and the money minefield
25 January 2012
TO pay or not to pay, that is the question. And if they pay, to play or not to play, that will be the next question.
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Boss McGarry rewarded for his bravery
26 October 2011
THERE’S no doubt but that it was a bold speak by Anthony McGarry to suggest that the current Mayo manager James Horan - in his former guise as Ballintubber manager - operated a tactical system that stifled his players.
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The great and green dare to dream
22 September 2011
THE FACE can be a powerful indicator. The coolness, the focus, the confidence, the drive, the spirit, it was impossible to disguise.
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Good luck to the Good Ship Mayo
20 July 2011
I’M NOT sure what was stranger. Watching a Connacht Final played in conditions more associated with an FBD League first rounder or the sight of referee Michael Collins penalising Cillian O’Connor for time-wasting, as the player prepared to kick a free.
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There’s no I in we
13 July 2011
THAT’S the trouble with putting things on the long finger. A finger often gets burnt.
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Planning a way forward for Mayo football
08 June 2011
RUMOURS of my demise were greatly exaggerated. Despite my fears that one more uttering of the words ‘strategic’ and ‘plan’ might cause me to explode, it didn’t happen. A pity, some might say!
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Upset unlikely ... but you never know!
25 May 2011
IF there’s one thing Leinster’s remarkable recovery against Northampton or the defeats of Sligo by Leitrim and Kerry by Tipperary’s minor footballers last Wednesday should remind us of, it’s that in sport nothing can ever be taken for granted.
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09 March 2011
IF MAYO footballers can learn anything from Ireland’s remarkable, inspirational and hilarious defeat of England’s cricketers it’s probably that they should look no further this championship than their opening round game against London in Ruislip.
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The honeymoon continues
16 February 2011
YOU’d have thought a plane ticket to New York would have been an attractive prize, especially for some soon to be jobless graduates.
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Time to tackle wasted time
09 February 2011
A FORTNIGHT ago this column posed the question, “How long is a game of football or hurling?” We wondered because of some provinces running their pre-season inter-county competitions over 60 minutes, and others over 70.
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The balancing act that is pre-season
26 January 2011
FIVE minutes of playing time remained when the text message arrived. “Greens have pulled out,” it read.
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A nice idea from the Gaels, but ...
19 January 2011
I CAN see where the proposing club is coming from and no doubt their intention is sincere, but quite how Roscommon County Board envisage the policing of the motion it has voted to put before annual congress next April, I’m not so sure.
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Managers and the GAA’s travel bug
12 January 2011
AND so the 2011 football season is up and running, sort of !
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The abnormality of weather and sport
22 December 2010
THERE’S something not quite normal about Irish ears failing to prick up – as mine were guilty of last Sunday – to the sound of a radio forecasting an average nightly temperature somewhere between -5 and -10 degrees – with colder to follow.
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