By Terry Reilly (c) HOW time plays tricks with us. And is there anything more confounding than hindsight? Here we are, on the cusp on an All-Ireland semi-final, and there are people with the smallest drop of Mayo blood in their veins lying through their teeth and saying they knew this team was a good […]
Decentralisation and all that… By Terry Reilly (c) Lining up for the cameraman just a few minutes ago reminds me of a story I heard the other day…. The school children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. “Just think how […]
By Terry Reilly (c) AS promised last week, and in response to calls for amplification of a recent article on Mayo football, Another View returns to the topic this week with a view to initiating some informed thinking which may, perhaps, lead to better days. As you know we have not won the senior All-Ireland football crown since 1951… […]
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 […]