Not so very long ago, Mayo footballers took to the stage like Beyoncé; all angel wings, backing singers and brass … More

Longing — wrote Don DeLilo in his opus Underworld — on a large scale, makes history. The football championship returns … More

Long before the ethos of the GAA club became a marketing stick to gently beat us over the head with, … More

When the time comes for the movie to be made about Mayo football, the first words you will see with … More

In a way, it seems trite and even a little inappropriate to consider writing anything original on the weekend after … More

When the rare opportunity drops to write about Leitrim, you might think the starting point would be John McGahern, and … More

We get it. Yiz are good at football. But this is getting ridiculous. So ridiculous that Damien Dempsey is struggling … More

The Mayo boss touched immortality more than once, and had he pulled it off it would have been one of the … More

Far from the madding crowd, deep in the caverns of the birthplace of the once great bastion of altruistic volunteerism … More

Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder – Patrick Kavanagh, Advent I wonder what Patrick Kavanagh would … More