Every so often, we provide a taster of the podcast content we make available on an ongoing basis to our club members on Patreon. In this latest Recently on the Podcast show, Rob and John review audio from Mayo/Roscommon Minor Final Whistle pod, where Martin Carney points to prominent performers in that game; from the Mayo/Sligo U20 Final Whistle show, where Mike reflects on Mayo's Championship elimination and where Mayo manager Peadar Gardiner and Sligo manager Paul Henry provide post-match...

Mayo have beaten New York by a scoreline of 2-21 to 2-6 in the Connacht championship quarter-final at Gaelic Park in the Bronx.Rob, Mike and John were joined at Gaelic Park by Colm Boyle, John Casey and Seán Reilly. There’s also post-match reaction from Mayo manager Kevin McStay, New York manager Alan O’Mara and Mayo captain Paddy Durcan.To get access to all of the podcast episodes, join the club at Patreon.com/mayopodcast, where annual membership is now available for just €1 per week (plus...

The Mayo Football Podcast is going to New York next month so it’s time to start the build-up!Colm Boyle joins Rob, Mike and John to chat about the trip to the Big Apple and a live event that will be taking place in NYC on Friday, April 5.The lads also chat the weird and wonderful differences of Mayo playing a championship match in Gaelic Park, and Boyler tells a few stories from his own Mayo days.Plus, they take a look ahead to Sunday’s National League match against Derry and ask whether Mayo...

Mayo claimed a dramatic draw in this afternoon's LGFA NFL Division One Round 4 clash with Kerry at Fitzgerald Stadium. Twice they battled back from three points in arrears in a low-scoring contest, with late points from Sinéad Walsh and Maria Cannon giving the Westerners a deserved share of the spoils.After the game Rob chatted with Cormac Reape, former Knockmore LGFA manager and current manager of the Sligo ladies team. He also got post-game reaction from Mayo manager Liam McHale and from...

Just over forty years have passed since Mayo won All-Ireland honours at Under 21 level for the third time, when they beat Derry in a replayed final played at Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh. It was the first ever All-Ireland final to be played north of the border, with the Mayo team featuring within its ranks a number of players who would go on to become household names for the county at Senior level in the years that followed.In this podcast episode, Rob and John sit down with two members of that...

In our first highlights show of 2024, Rob and John take a sample of voices our Patreon club members will already have heard on the Mayo Football Podcast over the last few weeks.On this pod, Rob Hennelly talks about his hopes for the year, Colm Boyle lists the players who impressed him in Mayo's recent FBD match against London, the London manager Michael Maher reacts to his team's surprise win in that game, Billy Joe Padden reminisces about his pre-season days when John Maughan was manager,...

As the curtain comes down on another year, and the FBD League looms on the horizon, we’re taking an opportunity to check in with all our listeners.John, Mike and Rob reflect on two years of welcoming members to the Mayo Football Podcast and tell you why you should sign up if you haven’t already.The lads explain how to join for just €1 a week and give a flavour of what you can look forward to on the pod in 2024.Join the Mayo Football Podcast club on Patreon to get exclusive access to our bonus...

In this episode of the Mayo Football Podcast, Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan review extracts from our coverage of the weekend's county finals, which club members on Patreon have already got access to in our Final Whistle pods recorded after the Junior, Intermediate and Senior club finals at MacHale Park.  The first clip comes from Cill Chomain's Eoghan McGrath who was a guest on our Junior final preview pod and who spoke about how tough it is to win the Junior Championship. We then hear an...

In this episode of the Mayo Football Podcast, Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan review extracts from some of the content our club members on Patreon have got access to over the last few weeks.  From Colm Boyle we hear reaction to the news that Corofin's Joe Canney has joined Kevin McStay's management team. The split season, and issues relating to it, was covered in two different pods and from them we hear points made by Stephen Drake, Billy Joe Padden, Colm Keys and Ciaran O'Hara.  Two GAA books...

To mark the release of his new book all about grassroots GAA 'This is the Life' Ciaran Murphy of Second Captains fame, sat down with Rob Murphy to talk all about what motivated him to write about how the GAA can captivate villages and towns all over the land.Ciaran dropped into our studios in south Mayo after a day of travelling around the county visiting some of the best bookstores to sign copies of the book.The chat covers everything from the allure of the club to the sense of duty and...

In this episode of the Mayo Football Podcast, we look back at some of the content our club members on Patreon have got access to over the last few weeks. Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan review extracts from these pods, which feature Kieran Kilkenny, Conor Diskin, Kevin McLoughlin and Peadar Gardiner.  The first extract we hear comes from Mayo GAA Performance Games Development Administrator Kieran Kilkenny who explains the work being done at county level with the U14, U15 and U16 groups. Next...

We had three Mayo Football Podcast shows last week and in this review episode Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan review extracts from these pods, focusing on Jason Doherty's inter-county retirement and the start of the club Championships.Following Jason Doherty's announcement that his days as an inter-county player were over, he sat down for an in-depth interview with Mike Finnerty. We hear a few clips from that pod, focusing on how he decided on the timing for his departure, why the Mayo team he...

We had three Mayo Football Podcast shows last week and in this review episode Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan review extracts from these pods, where the main focus during the week was on the Mayo ladies team who were in All-Ireland semi-final action against Kerry on Saturday.  To start the show we hear audio from podcast regular Edwin McGreal, who reflects on Mayo's absence from All-Ireland final day and who then goes on to consider the contenders for the vacant U20 manager's position and the...

We had two Mayo Football Podcast shows last week and in this review episode Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan review extracts from these pods, featuring audio from podcast regular Billy Joe Padden and from Mayo manager Kevin McStay.  Billy Joe muses about the style of play needed in the modern game and he points to evidence of how Mayo attempted to set up in this way in 2023. He also reminisces about what it was like to play alongside the generational talent that was Ciaran McDonald. Rob's...

As we move on from the 2023 inter-county season for the Mayo men's team, we've switched our focus on the Mayo Football Podcast to other issues. In this regular review show we highlight extracts from recent podcast episodes made available to club members and this week we've got audio from Edwin McGreal and Austin O'Malley as well as a number of voices from our Final Whistle pod recorded at Pearse Stadium on Saturday, where the Mayo ladies snatched victory over Galway in the LGFA All-Ireland...

Ever since the final whistle sounded at Croke Park on Sunday before last, Mayo fans have been coming to terms with the county's exit from this year's Championship, with Dublin defeating them comfortably at the All-Ireland quarter-final stage. On the Mayo Football Podcast we've been analysing the reasons why Mayo slumped to such a comprehensive loss that day and what the defeat means for the county for next year and beyond.In this pod Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan pick out and discuss some...

In this pod, which is being made available on all podcast platforms, we provide a sample of our podcast content over the past week, almost all of which was made available exclusively to our club members. Rob and John look back on the podcast shows we made available last week and they start by listening to audio from Dan Bannon of the Louth and Proud podcast on the Final Whistle show recorded after Mayo had just beaten the Wee County. Next we hear about the state of the MacHale Park pitch on...

An exhibition football match is being played in Claremorris this Saturday at 3pm as part of the 'Together For Ger' initiative.The game will see friends, former team-mates and club-mates of Ger Brady from Claremorris tog out as a Mayo selection takes on a Claremorris selection.Mike is joined by former Mayo footballer Ger Brady from Ballina and former Claremorris footballer Pauric Ring to chat about Saturday's game and to reflect on why so many people want to come along this weekend to show the...

Over the past week, we released four new shows on the Mayo Football Podcast and in this episode Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan provide a sample of this content, almost all of which was made available first to our club members on Patreon.Voices you'll hear on this show include Colm Boyle, Marc Ó Sé, Edwin McGreal and Billy Joe Padden as they looked back on the Kerry game, Olof Gill who chatted about the weekend's All-Island football tournament on Clare Island and Seán Deane and team captain Rio...

The All Island Championships take place on Clare Island this weekend and we thought we'd give you a quick preview of what is in store. Olof Gill is both set to play for the home team and a member organising committee and he took time out from his busy week to have a chat with Rob Murphy and set the scene for the biggest weekend of football since they last hosted it ten years ago.This episode of the Mayo Football Podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud,...

It's been another busy week on the Mayo Football Podcast, where club members have again had access to loads of new audio content, both leading up to and after the match against Kerry in Killarney on Saturday, while we also kept tabs on the Minors' progress on Friday evening.Voices you'll hear on this episode, in which we showcase some of the audio club members have heard over the past week, include Tony Leen of the Irish Examiner and Billy Joe Padden, who chatted with Rob on the Kerry preview...

The week just gone was a hectic one on the Mayo Football Podcast, with four separate shows going online for our club members on Patreon during the week, featuring interviews with three separate Mayo managers. In this pod, Rob and John introduce a few segments from these four shows.Last Monday, Mike caught up with Mayo LGFA manager Michael Moyles to reflect on his team's Connacht final victory over Galway, then on Friday morning Rob sat down to chat with Senior manager Kevin McStay as his...

In this weekly episode of the Mayo Football Podcast, we showcase segments of the audio that our club members on Patreon will already have heard in full. Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan review this week's audio excerpts, featuring the voices of Mayo Minor manager Seán Deane, who reflects on his team's win over Roscommon last Friday evening, as well as podcast regulars Nigel Reape and Austin O'Malley, both of whom were speaking on the podcast with Mike Finnerty over the last few days.This episode...

Every week on the Mayo Football Podcast, we make plenty of audio content available to our loyal club members on Patreon. We thought it would be a good idea to give everyone else a taster of this content and so we're launching a new series on the podcast, providing snippets of audio from our Patreon pods.Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan chat about the audio excerpts that feature in this show. Voices included in this episode are Edwin McGreal, reflecting on Mayo's loss to Roscommon on the Final...