We are all partial to the odd moan about the GAA. When engaging in small-talk, complaining about the current state of Gaelic Games or its structure and administrators is as common a theme as carping about Irish weather.

After a coma-inducing hour of football, the game was crying out for a decisive strike. A moment of inspiration on an otherwise insipid afternoon. A few seconds of potency was all that was required.

Won’t somebody please think of the children. As advertisements for Gaelic football go, Sunday’s Mayo senior football final sympathised with the Halloween weekend upon which it was played: scary, frightful and grim.

Padraig O’Hora has won a raft of titles with Ballina Stephenites at underage level, all the way through to minor, but the Moclair Cup had eluded him over and over again.

Mayo SFC Final Ballina Stephenites 0-6 Breaffy 0-4  Ballina Stephenites have extended their record as the most successful club in Mayo senior championship history, but as finals go this victory over Breaffy was anything but a classic.

A fresh injection of young talent is behind the resurgence of Ballina Stephenites’, believes veteran defender Ger Cafferkey who is hoping the experience of last year’s county final will stand to the team on Sunday. Stuart Tynan reports.

The 2023 Mayo Senior Football Championship will conclude as it began, with a first-ever meeting in the county final of Ballina Stephenites, the competition’s most successful club, and Breaffy, who have yet to experience the thrill of lifting the ...

Mayo SFC Semi-Final Ballina Stephenites 0-10 Knockmore 0-7 High on tension, low on quality, but neither statement of fact about this semi-final will bother Ballina Stephenites too much, as they overcame their neighbours to secure a second ...

Mayo SFC Semi-Final  Sunday, October 15  1pm at St Tiernan’s Park, Crossmolina  Ballina Stephenites v Knockmore  Ballina Stephenites are on a mission this year to ...

[backtint=start] Connacht Gold Mayo SFC Grp 1 – Rd 2  Ballina Stephenites 2-17  Mayo Gaels 1-10  [backtint=end] Darragh Walsh at James Stephens Park Sunday afternoon saw Mayo Gaels travel to North Mayo to face off against Ballina in James Stephens ...