“You see what it means for everyone around here.” An emotional Lee Keegan gives a brilliant interview after Westport beat Ballina to win their first ever senior Mayo championship. The 2016 Player of the Year had already won an Intermediate title with the club, but to finally get over the line yesterday against a side […]

3 years ago

Chelsea full back Marc Cucurella said at the beginning of the season that, despite having his hair tugged by Spurs’ Christian Romero, he wasn’t going to change his style. He was not going to cut his hair and that was that. Obviously, having long hair poses something of an occupational hazard when you’re playing a […]

3 years ago

“I wish there was a good story behind it but there’s not.” Padraig O’Hora has literally come out of nowhere in Gaelic football terms, to establishing himself as one of the best defenders in the game. With his man bun perfectly perched on his head, and a smile wider than my latest attempt at scoring […]

4 years ago

Westport 0-13 1-09 Ballina RTE are probably delighted that they chose this Mayo championship tie to be televised, as it proved to be a nail-bitter, right to the very last second. Ballina got off to an absolutely rampant start, everything seemed be going there way as Padraig O’Hora swept up everything Westport had to offer, […]

4 years ago

“Look at this place! What it means to all of us!” Padraig O’Hora was struggling to hear what Damian Lawlor was asking him, but he could not give a fiddlers. He was in a state of pure bliss. The Mayo defender busted up a couple of ribs in the Connacht Final win over Galway and […]

4 years ago