Mayo SHC Semi-Final Ballyhaunis 2-26 St Ciaran’s 0-11 Stuart Tynan in Ballyhaunis Even without the likes of Jason Coyne, Keith Higgins, Eoghan Collins and Jack Coyne, Ballyhaunis sailed into the Mayo senior hurling championship final as they ran ...

The United Rugby Championship is a curious competition and has been a slow burner in gaining a place in the consciousness of sports fans in recent seasons.

I had weaned myself of the drug called Mayo GAA. Seven decades of highs and lows, the highs harder to hit, the lows dragging me along the bottom. I was out. Cold turkey, leaving this august paper after years on the front.

With the GAA maintaining the All-Ireland group stage format for the 2025 season, one shudders to think of the dead rubbers and inconsequential matches that lie ahead next summer.

Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Abraham Lincoln, Colonel Sanders. All well-known historical figures. All names that have been woven into history. All failures.

Kevin McStay is to remain as manager of the Mayo senior football team for 2025.

Athletics: Moy Valley Athletic Club hosted the North Mayo Primary Schools Cross Country in brilliant sunshine in Belleek, Ballina last Thursday.

The 58th Annual Newport Sea Angling Festival took place in the beautiful surrounds of Clew Bay recently, with over 60 anglers taking to the seas over the two day event with the junior members out on Saturday, August 3, followed by the Senior anglers ...

Two of the giants of Ballina Stephenites GAA club, founder James Wallace Melvin, and Andy Corcoran, acknowledged as the best captain the club ever had, are to be honoured this coming Sunday, September 29 at 12. 30pm in Leigue Cemetery.

Ballina Tennis Club was out in force at the Claremorris Tour 200 Doubles recently and returned home jubilant with three wins and two runners-up spots.