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Mayo GAA news, views and over a century of results. Mayo GAA Blog is a fan's eye website dedicated to the ups and downs of following Mayo's footballing fortunes.
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Davitts GAA Club’s 50th anniversary celebrations ended in style in the clubhouse on Saturday, November 23rd, with the launch of their impressive book to mark the milestone. A large crowd assembled as the publication was officially launched by Mayo Ladies football legend, Cora Staunton. The 260-page book was compiled by the club’s PRO Joe Reapy in collaboration with the publisher ..read more
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In this extract from Our Finest Hour – Mayo GAA clubs reflect on their glory days, author Edwin McGreal writes about the famous breakthrough for Shamrocks of Aghamore in 1977. ‘Grey’ Tom Freeman wasn’t going to agree with the priest for the sake of it. It was 1968 and the colours of the Aghamore club were up for debate. They ..read more
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It’s getting on for five years now since the last Club Stars awards night – which took place in January 2020, shortly before the Covid pandemic hit and upended all our lives – but the premium event for club players within the county is back. The awards event for this year’s Mayo Football Podcast Club Stars with EirGrid takes next ..read more
Mayo GAA Blog
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Books are always a good Christmas present choice and Edwin McGreal’s Our Finest Hour, in which over 50 Mayo GAA clubs reflect on their own individual days of glory, has the makings of a fine festive gift. Ed joins Rob and John on the pod to chat about the book and the many stories and photos it contains within its ..read more
Mayo GAA Blog
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The final tickets for the gala awards event for the Mayo Football Club Stars with EirGrid, which takes place this coming Friday, were sold earlier this evening. The awards event is now officially sold out, with a full house set to attend the premier night of Mayo club football at the Knockranny House Hotel in Westport. Bringing back the Club ..read more
Mayo GAA Blog
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As Johnny Logan once crooned, what’s another year? For the blog this means that the results of another season – the 123rd in all – are now filed away in the results archive, where you can browse through the archive year-by-year or use the search engine for more forensic queries. The landing page for the blog’s results archive is here ..read more
Mayo GAA Blog
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Months of planning and preparation have gone into it and tonight, in front of a full house at the Knockranny House Hotel in Westport, the gala awards event for the Mayo Football Podcast Club Stars with EirGrid takes place. We’re expecting close to 400 people at tonight’s event where, as well as the special awards already announced, we’ll be unveiling ..read more
Mayo GAA Blog
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We all had a great night out last night at the gala awards event for Mayo Football Podcast Club Stars with EirGrid. Close to 400 people attended the sell-out awards event at the Knockranny House Hotel in Westport, where the festivities went on into the wee hours. From our perspective, the event was a huge success, vindicating our decision to ..read more
Mayo GAA Blog
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Our decision to bring back the Club Stars awards was well and truly vindicated on Friday night when a capacity crowd turned up at Knockranny House Hotel in Westport. This show brings you behind the scenes and into the midst of a great night’s entertainment at the gala awards event of the Mayo Football Podcast Club Stars with EirGrid. Rob ..read more
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The two U21 A county semi-finals were played this afternoon and they ended in victories for Castlebar Mitchels and Westport, who got the better of Claremorris and Davitts respectively. Westport enjoyed a comfortable enough win over Davitts, which finished 2-13 to 1-8, but the other semi was a right ding-dong affair. Mitchels appeared to be cruising in this one, as ..read more