Soccer: There was no shortage of local input into the Republic of Ireland Schools’ victory over Wales in the SAFIB Centenary Shield last Thursday night.

Connacht SFC Semi-Final  May 1-15  Roscommon 0-13  Anthony Hennigan at Dr Hyde Park, Roscommon  (Att: 13,967)  Six and a half, touching seven.

Nicky Rackard Cup – Round 2  Donegal 0-21  Mayo 0-14  Stuart Tynan in O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny  When your goalkeeper ends up as your top scorer, it’s easy to ...

FAI Schools National Junior (U17) Cup Final Rice College 1 Portmarnock CS 0 Stuart Tynan in Athlone Town StadiumRice College’s hopes of joining a select group of retaining the Tom Ticher Cup ultimately fell short last Wednesday afternoon at the ...

Balla Secondary School put in a tremendous performance to advance to the FAI Schools Minor ‘B’ Boys National Cup Final. The Balla boys  Largy College, Clones, by a 4-1 scoreline earlier this afternoon in Ray McSharry Park, Sligo.

Athletics: There was significant Mayo interest, not to mention success, when almost 400 runners gathered to raced in the fourth and final leg of the Run Clare series. The event, held on Saturday, April 13, was the Kilkishen 10 mile.

Two of the central characters in Mayo’s only other appearance in the Oscar Traynor Cup, Joe Lindsay and Donal Benson, unpick their memories of that day 43 years ago in the company of Stuart Tynan.

2024 Oscar Traynor Cup Final  Sunday, April 21  1pm at Umbro Park, Milebush  Mayo League v Waterford League  It is the sort of game that may only come around once in ...

David Farrell was at the final of the 1981 Oscar Traynor Cup. Mayo’s return to the final this year has brought memories flooding back for the man who was the Western People photographer of that great occasion 43 years ago – and will be again next Sunday.

Islandeady athlete Thomas Devaney is hoping to put an injury hit two years behind him and get back to full fitness and to racing once again. At the end of 2022, it looked like the Mayo runner would be making his next big strides.

As soon as Mayo was drawn opposite Roscommon in the 2023 football championship draw, Davy Burke's team were fixated on one fixture. Pre-season was irrelevant. The league was irrelevant.

First the bad news. The last time Mayo began their championship in New York they returned and were immediately knocked out of Connacht by Roscommon.

Connacht Rugby U18. 5 Cup Semi-Final Buccaneers 13 Ballina 13 At Dubarry Park, Athlone Ballina were extremely unfortunate not to progress to the Connacht U18.

Athletics: No fewer than 29 members of Mayo Athletic Club were competing across four different events on the same weekend.

Enda Hession returns to the Mayo team for Sunday’s Connacht SFC semi-final against Roscommon. The Garrymore man is named at left half-back in place of Eoghan McLaughlin who is not named among the substitutes.

We all remember the first match we went to. For me, it was a chastening experience.

Having suffered heartache in national finals in 2022 and 2023, it was a case of third time lucky for Ballinrobe’s Ursula Shaughnessy when she was crowned the 80kg National Junior 1 Champion in the National Stadium on Saturday.

Electric Ireland Celtic Challenge Hurling Championship – Round 2 Mayo 1-14 Donegal 1-8 In Convoy Mayo came from behind to win this hugely entertaining U17 hurling championship encounter at blustery Convoy on Saturday.

Connacht Cup Quarter-Final Castlebar Celtic 2 Athenry 1 Paul O’Malley at Celtic Park Confucius once said that before embarking on a journey of revenge in the Connacht Cup, you should dig two graves.

Connacht Shield Quarter Final Westport United 3 Claremorris 1 Paul O’Malley at United Park An improved second-half performance saw Westport United advance to the last four of the Connacht Shield against Claremorris on Sunday morning.