By: Terry Reilly (c) Western People, Nov 26, 2003. REMEMBER the time Mayo footballers were directed, as part of their winter training, to push cars across a car park? Almost everyone made a song and a dance out of it. Blew it out of proportion. It was the butt of national jokes for weeks.There were […]
Article first appeared June 2003 Slipping fan belts and near misses By Terry Reilly (c) 2003 MAYO never minded playing Galway in Pearse Stadium in Salthill. Big pitch. Plenty of space. Room to express oneself. And some good results. The only drawback was getting away after the game, along tar-melting roads knotted with traffic that found out dodgy […]
By Terry Reilly (c) FROM once he entered the race everyone treated Dr Jerry Cowley as a real contender for one of the five Mayo seats. But few, if any, predicted he would take the first seat ahead of FG’s Michael Ring. That he did, and in stunning style, taking votes from virtually every ballot […]
By Terry Reilly (c) Irish Post, England The people of the parish of Kilfian, between Ballina and Ballycastle, turned out in strength on August Bank Holiday Monday to witness the unveiling of a memorial to the discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming and his Kilfian-born wife, Lady Sarah (nee McElroy). The unveiling of the monument, […]
By Terry Reilly (c) IT did our hearts good to see Cora Staunton sweeping through and around challenges en route to goal and applying the coup de grace in such spectacular fashion at Croker last Saturday. Mayo, the defending All-Ireland ladies champions, were back at the scene of their historic triumph last year, trying to […]