Tooreen once again stand sixty minutes away from a second appearance in Croke Park in three years, but to get there, they will have to get through an opponent that in many ways, are a mirror of themselves.

Mayo senior football manager Andy Moran has named his team to face Offaly on Sunday at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.

Tooreen chairman Pat Freyne credits the work of so many in his club continuing to defy all odds, writes Stuart Tynan.

While a number of new faces will feature in Mayo’s first ‘public’ game since the appointment of Andy Moran as manager, it’s likely there’ll be a number of familiar names on the team-sheet too, as next Sunday sees the Green and Red take on Offaly in ...

Current Mayo LGFA star Hannah Reape will be among the 'Facilitators' for a new LGFA initiative.

Andy Moran was 18 days old when John Maughan was handed his first start for the Mayo senior football team in a National League game against Louth. The date was November 20, 1983.

There's a double-header of a different kind for the Kenny household next weekend as daughter Aisling ties the knot while her brothers David and Sean aim to help steer the Tooreen hurlers back to Croke Park, writes Stuart Tynan.

One is already gone, the other is set to follow, but the influence of Oisin Mullin and Kobe McDonald on the Mayo senior football squad has been profound in Andy Moran’s initial weeks in charge of the team.

Mayo GAA stands on the threshold of enormous change in the county. That was the opening message in the address by Mayo GAA County Board chairman Seamus Tuohy as the County Convention took place last Sunday in St John’s Centre in Knock.

A programme broadcast on RTÉ television last week laid bare the challenges facing commuters around the Dublin area, with the M50 now at capacity according to Transport Infrastructure Ireland.

A number of motions up for discussion at last Sunday’s Mayo GAA County Convention are set to be referred back to the county’s Competition Controls Committee. Two of these motions came from Westport GAA Club.

Mayo GAA treasurer Valerie Murphy has updated delegates on the current engagement with Revenue regarding a legacy issue in relation to tax liabilities and expenses. She said the process is ongoing and make take several months to complete.

“Each club’s commitment reflects a shared determination to support our young players at a pivotal stage in their sporting lives."

The first Saturday of January is set to a busy day for Mayo GAA, not just for the county footballers but also for a club looking to reach an All-Ireland final.

The Andy Moran era officially gets underway this month as fixture details have been confirmed for his first official game in charge.Mayo will take on Offaly in a charity game in aid of Mayo Cancer Support. The game throws-in at 1.30pm on Sunday, ...

Mayo U21 ‘C’ FC Final  The Neale 1-13  Lahardane MacHales 2-7  Stuart Tynan in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park  The young men from the south boarder made history as ...

Mayo U21 ‘B’ FC Final  St Jarlath’s 1-15  Ballinrobe 1-14  Stuart Tynan in CoE Bekan  As he was readied to be brought on the field, a member of St Jarlath’s backroom ...

There is ‘no doubt’ that a Connacht Rugby game will be held in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park again.

The award represents another milestone for the club.

A proud day for the Mayo native as helps Ballyboden St Enda's win the Leinster Club SFC title in Croke Park

Mayo GAA stands on the threshold of enormous change in the county. That was the opening message in the address by Mayo GAA County Board chairman Seamus Tuohy as the County Convention took place this afternoon in St John’s Centre in Knock.

Kiltimagh folk still wince when they talk about it. Croke Park in February 2010 - the day the junior final slipped through their hands. People that were there still remember the quiet more than the noise.

Mayo U21 'B' FC Final St Jarlath's 1-15 Ballinrobe 1-14 David Smith's point in injury-time secured St Jarlath's the Mayo U21 'B' football title after coming through a nail-biter with ...

Mayo U21 C FC Final The Neale 1-13 Lahardane 2-7 The Neale captain Tom Lydon led by example as he kicked ten points to guide his side to a maiden U21 county title over a gallant ...

The club season in Mayo GAA is drawing to a close for 2025, and there is a double header of U21 finals down for today (Saturday). The poor weather this week has seen both finals forced into change of venues, however.

Fixture details have been confirmed for Tooreen's upcoming All-Ireland Club Intermediate Hurling Championship semi-final.

The announcement comes at a time when the sport is experiencing unprecedented growth.

Connacht Junior Cup – Round 3  Strand Celtic 1  Castlebar Celtic 2  John Corless in Strandhill  Castlebar Celtic survived a bruising encounter on a small pitch in ...

By their own admission, Kiltimagh were not at their best there was still more than enough for them to defeat Aughavas to win the Connacht club junior football title last Saturday.

Ballina Stephenites have achieved significant success recently, most notably winning their third consecutive Mayo Senior Football Championship in 2025.

Connacht PPS Juvenile O’Haire Cup Final  St Gerald’s College 2-12 Rice College 3-7  Stuart Tynan in Islandeady  Timing is everything and St Gerald’s struck at ...

Mayo U21 A FC Final  Claremorris 1-15  Westport 1-14  John Paul Heaney in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park  Not for the first time this year, Westport had county ...

It was a tale of two halves in Claregalway’s Knockdoemore last Friday morning.

Mayo U21 B FC Semi-Final  Ballinrobe 3-15  Naomh Padraig 0-11  Stuart Tynan in Gerry Maheady Park, Killala  A trip up north has brought great reward for Ballinrobe ...

The Mayo GAA County Convention will take place next Sunday in St John’s Centre, Knock, with a three-way battle anticipated for the two positions as Connacht GAA Council delegates.

Preparations ahead of the 2026 inter-county for the Mayo senior football team are heating up, with a warm weather training camp ongoing at the moment.

Connacht PPS Senior A Football C’ship Group 3 – Round 2  St Muredach’s College 3-24  Ballinrobe Community School 1-16  Stuart Tynan in CoE Bekan A week since they ...

Mayo GAA has announced they have registered a tax liability of €350,000 over a seven-year-period.

Mayo GAA recorded a surplus of close to €0. 5 million for its 2025 financial year due to strong growth in gate receipts and match-day income as well as higher commercial revenues last year.

AIB Connacht Club JFC Final  Kiltimagh 0-16  Aughavas 0-8  Stuart Tynan in Páirc Sean MacDiarmada, Carrick-on-Shannon  Kiltimagh eased to their second ever Connacht ...

As the Christmas lights start to flicker, lights in the world of GAA also switched this past week, from red to green, with counties permitted to return to collective training officially as Friday marked six weeks until the start of inter-county ...

It’s only the few clubs in Mayo that can boast of provincial success and even fewer can say they have experienced that feeling on more than one occasion.

Andy Moran and his Mayo squad have discovered the route they will have to overcome if they are to triumph in the 2026 Connacht Senior Football Championship.

"He is an exemplary individual who has proven himself as a teak-tough defender over recent years."

Kilmeena manager Damien Egan admitted their third quarter display was a ‘killer’ as Strokestown denied the Mayo intermediate champions another provincial title last Sunday in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.

A newly-published book by former Mayo footballer and underage manager John P Kean ‘will provoke an awful lot of debate among supporters and people who have a real interest in taking Mayo to the next level’.

Pride. It was an emotion that Ray Larkin referenced more than once as he reflected on another momentous day in the history of Tooreen – and Mayo – hurling.

Mayo U21 ‘A’ Football Championship Semi-Final Westport 2-21 Balla 1-7 Stuart Tynan in St Patrick’s Park, Westport  Over thirty miles away, the U21 ‘A’ semi-final between Claremorris and Aghamore was a gripping battle that went the distance.

AIB Connacht Club IHC Final Tooreen 3-21 Meelick-Eyrecourt 2-12 Anthony Hennigan at King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park, Roscommon It’s stronger they’re getting.

Mayo PPS Flanagan Cup Senior ‘A’ Cup Final  St Muredach’s, Ballina 3-13  St Gerald’s, Castlebar 1-06  Anthony Hennigan at Páirc Josie Munnelly, Castlebar  There’s ...

Home advantage will no longer be granted to Tooreen or Ballyhaunis for future Mayo Senior Hurling Championship finals.

AIB Connacht Club IFC Final  Strokestown 4-11  Kilmeena 0-14  Stuart Tynan in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park  It was a day to forget for Kilmeena as two goals in ...

Rarely has a team been made work so hard for victory. Rarely has a team worked so hard and come away with nothing.

AIB Connacht Club IHC Final  Tooreen 3-21  Meelick-Eyrecourt 2-12  Anthony Hennigan at King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park, Roscommon  Tooreen totally outclassed their ...

Hastings Insurance MacHale Park has been shortlisted as one of the top four GAA pitches in the country.

Ballina Stephenites picked off most of the low-hanging fruit in Dr Hyde Park last Sunday, but they still starved to death while St Brigid’s filled their bellies for just under three quarters of the Connacht semi-final.

The best teams always find new ways to motivate themselves. Tooreen are no different in that regard. They might have won five of the last seven Connacht titles but to say they are hungry for more is an understatement.

Croke Park has given the green light for Mayo GAA to employ a Chief Executive Officer.

Jim Gavin never kicked the ball between the posts during Dublin’s dominance of the All-Ireland SFC nor did John Kiely ever puck over the sliotar while Limerick kept a tight grip on the Liam MacCarthy Cup, or Brian Cody for Kilkenny before him.

AIB Connacht Club IHC Semi-Final  Tooreen 3-21  St Gabriel’s 0-8  Damian Dolan at McGovern Park, Ruislip  After a couple of unconvincing outings, where they were ...

Connacht PPS SFC ‘A’ Group 3 – Round 1 St Muredach’s College, Ballina 1-13 St Jarlath’s College, Tuam 0-10 At Sean Duffy Park, Ardnaree Never before has the school won the near 100-year old competition.

AIB Connacht Club JFC Semi-Final  Kiltimagh 2-11  St Croan’s 1-14  (AET: Kiltimagh win 3-2 on penalties)   Jamie McNicholas was the hero for Kiltimagh as he saved ...

Mayo’s wait for one of its clubs to win a Connacht senior title will enter an eleventh season after Ballina Stephenites exited this year’s championship at the hands of St Brigid’s on Sunday afternoon.

When Tooreen lined out at McGovern Park in London on Saturday afternoon for their crunch showdown with St Gabriel’s in the semi-finals of the AIB Connacht intermediate club hurling championship, there was a surprise inclusion on the team-sheet.

There’s no feeling like winning a county final, memories forged that will be thought and reminisced of for years and decades to come.

Kilmeena have booked themselves a shot at glory in the AIB Connacht intermediate club championship by booking a ticket to the final thanks to a 0-22 to 1-9 victory in Saturday’s semi-final at Castlebar’s Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.

Eighteen players were given an opportunity to impress Mayo senior football manager Andy Moran on Friday night when a Mayo development squad team played a challenge match against Galway.

AIB Connacht Club JFC Semi-Final Sunday, November 16 St Croan’s v Kiltimagh1.

Like the rule about all free kicks having to travel 13 metres or any of the laws surrounding white collar crime in Ireland, enforcement of the law of averages can be sporadic at best.

I better be careful here, not appearing too smug, too smart – or glic, as they say in Irish. Kobe McDonald’s imminent departure to Australia leaves another ‘what if’ moment in the county.

The real test of any team is not how to deal with triumph, but adversity.

From one familiar opponent to another, London champions St Gabriel’s will be the next team looking to stop Tooreen from reaching an eighth consecutive Connacht club intermediate hurling championship final when the two sides meet in Ruislip this ...

It is a rather unique occasion for a group of Mayo footballers to come together to celebrate an All-Ireland success but that is exactly what happened in Westport’s Castlecourt Hotel on Saturday, November 1.

AIB Connacht Club IFC Quarter-Final  Kilmeena 1-21  Caltra 0-21  (AET; 0-16 to 0-16 at full-time)  Jack Mulchrone goal’s early in extra-time was the difference in ...

AIB Connacht Senior Club Football Championship – quarter-final  Ballina Stephenites 1-15  North London Shamrocks 0-10  Anthony Hennigan at Connacht CoE, Bekan  ...

Adventures beyond the Mayo border have become commonplace for Kilmeena these past four years and they will embark on another next Sunday when they face Galway champions Caltra in the Connacht club intermediate quarter-final.

Poking the entrails, looking at the stars, finger to the wind, watching the fox watching you from the hill, I’m looking for signs, omens and portents of Mayo’s next managerial magician. All a bit Shakespearean for you then? It shouldn’t be.

Content but unconvinced, might be one possible summary of the mood of Tooreen manager Ray Larkin after his side’s 1-17 to 1-12 win over Four Roads in Dr Hyde Park on Sunday.

The PwC All-Stars will be presented at a gala black-tie event at Dublin’s RDS tonight - Friday, November 7.

AIB Connacht Club SFC quarter-final  Saturday, November 8  6.

Mayo will begin their league campaign away to Galway.

May she rest in peace.

It will be the “middle of next summer” before Mayo GAA could submit planning permission for the proposed Centre of Excellence in Bohola.

Mayo’s 2026 National Football League Division 1 campaign commences with a trip to Galway on the weekend of January 24/25.

FBD Connacht Club U17 ‘B’ Football Championship – Final  St Jarlath’s 0-17  Bearna na Forbacha 2-09  Anthony Hennigan at CoE Bekan  It was by the skin of their ...

FBD Connacht Club U17 ‘A’ Football Championship – Final  Oranmore-Maree 5-12  Westport 5-11  Stuart Tynan at CoE Bekan  When it comes to finals, it is safe to say ...

AIB Connacht LGFA Senior Championship Semi-Final  Kilkerrin-Clonberne 1-17  Westport 2-07  Anthony Hennigan in St Patrick’s Park, Westport  They may be marginal ...

When captain and player of the match Ava Lambert raised the Galway Junior ‘C’ Cup to rapturous cheers and applause from family, friends and supporters last Friday evening, it was a moment that will live long in the memory of everyone associated with ...

The worst kept secret in Mayo GAA became official public knowledge on Monday with confirmation that Kobe McDonald is to pursue a career in Australian rules football.

McDonald has joined St Kilda Football Club as a Category B rookie.

Kobe, who is the son of Mayo GAA legend Ciaran McDonald, lit up the Mayo senior football championship this year with outstanding performances. 

The news that many Mayo supporters were fearing about one of the county's brightest football talents appears to be becoming a reality

For Westport, it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire. After defeating their rivals Knockmore to retain the Mayo senior title for the first time, they must now face down the challenge of the undisputed best team in the country.

In his captain’s profile ahead of the Mayo SFC final, Lee Keegan enlightened us on several different levels.

A county board delegate has voiced his frustration that the new Mayo senior football management was removing players from the senior football panel while the early rounds of the Mayo senior club championship were in progress.