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Gortnor’s golden greats
GORTNOR ABBEY 2-14
CLIFDEN CS 0-19 (AET)
THE greatest game ever played? Who knows. Gortnor Abbey’s finest hour? Almost certainly.
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Mayo reveal a strong hand for U-21 test
FOUR players who featured in Mayo’s National League defeat to Dublin last Sunday, seven of Mayo’s All-Ireland minor final starting teams of 2008 and 2009, and as many as 11 players who played minor championship football for the Green and Red during the past three seasons, have been named in Raymond Dempsey’s U-21 team that commences its Connacht Championship campaign away to Leitrim tomorrow night (Wednesday).
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Magic Moran tips the scales
3/10/2010
MAYO 0-19 ARMAGH 0-17
A 10 POINT haul, including nine frees and a ‘65’, by Tipperary native Brian Moran tipped the scales in favour of Mayo in an intriguing encounter at Crossmaglen, last Saturday.
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Padraic: We never gave up
3/10/2010
SATURDAY’S game had left him almost breathless but Padraic Costello was still able put words on the eighty minutes of football that just was.
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A test too far for Tiernan’s
3/10/2010
COLAISTE NA COIRIBE 2-12
ST TIERNAN’S COLLEGE 1-03
FOR spirit alone, St Tiernan’s deserved better than to lose by the double digit margin that separated them and Galway City outfit, Colaiste na Coiribe, last Thursday.
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Darren Cawley is crowned Ireland’s ‘Local Hero’
3/10/2010
Westport man Darren Cawley was last week (Tuesday) named as the inaugural winner of the Santa Rita 120 Local Hero campaign.
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Looking for the extra dimension to bring success
3/10/2010
IT’S WITH hopes of All-Ireland glory that Mayo GAA Board has launched a pioneering programme it believes will create an environment that enables the best possible physical development of 100 of the county’s most promising underage Gaelic footballers.
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Ladies take a tumble
3/10/2010
MONAGHAN 0-17 MAYO 1-09
MAYO crashed to their second league defeat of the season when they were outscored by a much slicker home team on Sunday last.
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Here, now and ready
3/10/2010
As the latest chapter in Raymond Dempsey’s managerial career takes him and his Mayo U-21 team to Cloone this Wednesday night, Anthony Hennigan discovers a man as serious as ever about his football.
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Wide woe for Mayo
3/10/2010
DUBLIN 1-09 MAYO 1-08
We predicted a draw and in the end, after such wastefulness in front of the posts, Mayo would have settled for just that.
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Gardiner injury blow adds to Mayo misery
3/10/2010
THE bitterly cold wind blowing down the McHale Park tunnel did little to brighten the mood of Mayo followers after Sunday’s very disappointing defeat to Dublin.
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Lucky 13 for regal Ray
3/10/2010
RAY Moylette bridged a 35 year gap on Saturday evening last when he won Westport its first National Senior boxing belt since 1975.
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Is emigration beginning to bite?
3/3/2010
In these strained economic times, the number might have been expected to be greater. Nonetheless, a total of five club footballers in Mayo had transfer requests to overseas GAA clubs granted in the opening two months of 2010.
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Mix-up over Mark appeal
3/3/2010
MAYO will seek to have Mark Ronaldson’s four-week suspension overturned, probably this Thursday night, after an administrative mix-up prevented both player and county board representatives from attending an appeal hearing in Croke Park last Tuesday.
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Promotion is priority says boss Brennan
3/3/2010
TO have his team play National League hurling next season against the likes of Wexford, Offaly and Antrim, that remains the ambition of Mayo manager Martin Brennan despite Sunday’s defeat of his side in their first outing of the 2010 campaign, writes Anthony Hennigan.
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€3m cost to train the county teams
3/3/2010
“HAVE we lost the plot?” asked John Prenty, in his report to the annual convention of Connacht GAA Council, in Claregalway, last Thursday. The provincial secretary was referring to what he called the “enormous expense” of training Connacht’s county teams which in 2009 alone, he estimates, “cost almost €3 million”, writes Anthony Hennigan.
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Moylette storms into senior final
3/3/2010
RAYMOND Moylette took a massive step closer to his first ever National Senior title when he beat defending champion, Philip Sutcliffe from Crumlin in the semi-finals on Friday night last at the National Stadium.
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Stage all set for ‘The Stages’
3/3/2010
With less than a fortnight remaining to the McWilliam Park Hotel Mayo Stages Rally 2010, excitement is mounting in Claremorris and indeed across rally circles throughout the region.
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Magic Moran sinks Salthill
3/3/2010
STRAIDE & FOXFORD UTD. 3
SALTHILL DEVON 1
A PAUL Moran masterclass helped the home side overcome a 1-0 deficit to defeat one of Galway’s biggest clubs on Sunday afternoon.
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So near yet so far for Muredach’s
3/3/2010
SUMMERHILL, SLIGO 3-07
ST MUREDACH’S, BALLINA 0-11
SUMMERHILL College overcame a spirited St Muredach’s side on Sunday, but only with the help of an additional 20 minutes, after normal time finished with a spectacular equaliser from the Sligo school’s Niall Colleary.
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Gerald’s capitalise on Colman’s collapse
3/3/2010
ST GERALD’S, CASTLEBAR 0-11
ST COLMAN’S, CLAREMORRIS 0-06
A GOOD start might have been half the battle for St Colman’s, but St Gerald’s definitely won the war when these two college kingpins clashed in the provincial semi-final on Sunday afternoon.
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Late Loftus goal flatters ‘Robe
3/3/2010
BALLINROBE 3-12 GARRYMORE 2-6
A SPRIGHTLY Ballinrobe side decisively disposed of the Garrymore challenge in this second round fixture under lights at Flanagan Park, on Saturday night.
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National crown sits well with coach Corbett
3/3/2010
ONE of Mayo’s best known GAA Gaels has been honoured with a national award for his voluntary commitment to Irish sport.
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Ballina get down to business
2/24/2010
BALLINA STEPHENITES 1-09 BREAFFY 1-07
FEBRUARY may still be with us but the new secondary league ensured that thoughts of frost and snow were banished for a while as club action once again took centre stage over the weekend.
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Beverages drink from winner’s chalice
2/24/2010
BALLINA BEVERAGES 1-12
ERICSSON ATHLONE 1-06
MAYO legend James Horan and Noel Beattie were on song for Ballina Beverages on Saturday afternoon after a sterling second half display from the local side helped overcome the stiff opposition of Ericsson Athlone in this flee-flowing encounter.
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Greens rejoice at Rouse winner
2/24/2010
BALLIINA 17 CORINTHIANS 15
BALLINA bounced back from their cup defeat to record an impressive league win over a strong Corinthians side.
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Kingdom call to Castlebar
2/24/2010
MAYO hurling’s management duo of Martin Brennan and Pete Finnerty along with their backup team, face the prospect of going into the second round of the National Hurling League without a competitive game to their credit following last Sunday’s postponed clash with Armagh.
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A province with a plan
2/24/2010
GAA President Christy Cooney singled out Garrymore as a prime example of a GAA club that must benefit if Connacht Council’s Strategic Vision and Action Plan is to be considered a success, writes Anthony Hennigan.
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Two wins out of three ain’t bad
2/24/2010
MAYO 1-12 DUBLIN 0-12
WHILE 2009 may have been a disappointing year for inter-county football in Mayo, it’s difficult not to feel optimistic about the upcoming championship season, especially if last Sunday’s victory over beaten All-Ireland finalists Dublin is anything to go by.
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Rally rejoice for Ryan
2/24/2010
HEADFORD’S Justin Ryan has been well and truly bitten by the rally bug, having recorded an impressive performance at the Galway International Rally earlier this month.
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Crafty Ken and cream of the crop
2/24/2010
THE cream of Mayo sport gathered in Claremorris last Friday night for the annual Western People Mayo Sports Star Awards ceremony, held in association with the McWilliam Park Hotel, writes Michael Gallagher.
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Prenty pushes for fixtures shake-up
2/24/2010
A RADICAL overhaul of fixture schedules in Connacht is about to take place, according to Provincial Secretary, John Prenty.
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