It's been the best Mayo Senior football Championship in ages and yesterday's final between Knockmore and Breaffy finished off the season in fine style. Ray Dempsey's hard-working, energetic Knockmore side are the SFC champions for 2020, their youthful zest and hunger to succeed proving too much for a Breaffy team who, once again, tasted defeat at the final hurdle.

In this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we take you into MacHale Park for a taste of the action, as well as plenty of post-match reaction. Rob Murphy and Mayo News sports editor, Mike Finnerty anchor the show and they're joined in MacHale Park prior to throw-in by Edwin McGreal of Breaffy and the Mayo News and former Knockmore manager Eamon Clarke, as together they take us through the dramatic Moclair Cup decider.

Post-game, Mike catches up with Knockmore's Kevin McLoughlin and Kieran Langan while Rob gets Ray Dempsey's reaction to his charges' title success. Finally, a rueful Edwin McGreal gives his overview of the game and reflects on yet another final that slipped out of Breaffy's grasp.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

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Over the weekend, the Mayo club football season reached its crescendo, with compelling finals played out in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Championships. The Mayo News football podcast was there, as it's been all summer, to catch the action, get the post-match reaction and analyse how the games were won and lost.

In this first episode of two club final editions of the podcast we concentrate on the Intermediate and Junior deciders, which were played out at MacHale Park on Saturday night. Hosts Rob Murphy and Mike Finnerty, sports editor of the Mayo News, take you through the Intermediate final coverage, starting with snippets from the victory speech made by Ger Flanagan, Balla co-captain and podcast regular, following which we hear from the victorious Balla manager, Ger Butler.

After that Mike is joined by Balla native Colin Sheridan and Edwin McGreal of the Mayo News to look back on Balla's win over Kiltimagh. Ger Flanagan joins in the chat too, giving his own perspective as a protagonist out on the pitch as the battle raged for possession of the Sweeney Cup.

The discussion takes in the Junior final too, in which Kilmaine pipped Kilmeena by a single point. We also hear from Kilmaine's Brian Maloney and David O'Loughlin, with whom Mike caught up after that game had ended, with Kilmaine at last crowned the JFC champions.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

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The club Championships have zipped by at a fair old clip this year, garnering way more attention than normal as they've done so due to the absence of any inter-county action this summer. In this strange Covid-induced vacuum, the club scene has blossomed, with compelling Championship contests played out at Junior, Intermediate and Senior levels. This action reaches a crescendo at the weekend, as the destination of the McDonnell, Sweeney and Moclair Cups are all set to be decided.

This is Part 2 of 2. The Intermediate and Junior Final Preview.

Over these two episodes of the Mayo News football podcast we preview the three county finals that are set to be contested at MacHale Park this weekend. Mayo News sports editor Mike Finnerty, along with his Mayo News colleagues Edwin McGreal and Ger Flanagan, look ahead to all three finals and assess where they might be won or lost. Mike also gets the views of Austin O'Malley on how the Intermediate decider between neighbours Balla and Kiltimagh might go while Sean Carey returns to the podcast to chat with Mike about the much-anticipated Senior final between Breaffy and Knockmore.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

The club Championships have zipped by at a fair old clip this year, garnering way more attention than normal as they've done so due to the absence of any inter-county action this summer. In this strange Covid-induced vacuum, the club scene has blossomed, with compelling Championship contests played out at Junior, Intermediate and Senior levels. This action reaches a crescendo at the weekend, as the destination of the McDonnell, Sweeney and Moclair Cups are all set to be decided.

This is Part 1 of 2. The Senior Final Preview.

Over these two episodes of the Mayo News football podcast we preview the three county finals that are set to be contested at MacHale Park this weekend. Mayo News sports editor Mike Finnerty, along with his Mayo News colleagues Edwin McGreal and Ger Flanagan, look ahead to all three finals and assess where they might be won or lost. Mike also gets the views of Austin O'Malley on how the Intermediate decider between neighbours Balla and Kiltimagh might go while Sean Carey returns to the podcast to chat with Mike about the much-anticipated Senior final between Breaffy and Knockmore.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

It's been another hectic weekend of club championship action, at the conclusion of which we're down to the finalists at Senior, Intermediate and Junior levels. In this latest edition of the Mayo News football podcast, we've got an array of voices talking about all of the weekend's action and more besides. Host Rob Murphy is back in the saddle for this bumper episode, where, together with Mayo News sports editor MIike Finnerty, they look back on all the MacHale Park action from the weekend.

For the matches on Saturday evening, Mike is joined by his Mayo News colleague Ger Flanagan to review Breaffy's win over Westport and Kiltimagh's surprise victory over Hollymount/Carramore. Mike is then joined by Martin Carney for some analysis of Breaffy's win. Ger, meanwhile, catches up pitchside with Breaffy 'keeper Robbie Hennelly, while Mike gets a post-match word with Kiltimagh's full-back Donovan Cosgrove.

The focus then switches to Sunday where Rob and Mike take you through the Balla/Ballinrobe IFC semi-final from their vantage point up in the near-empty stand at MacHale Park. As well as a podcast regular, Ger Flanagan is of course also co-captain of Balla and post-match he didn't need any prompting to seek out the two disconsolate Ballinrobe men to give his thoughts on his team's comeback win over them.

Then it's onto the Senior semi-final between Knockmore and Ballina Stephenites, for which Rob is joined by Edwin McGreal of the Mayo News to describe how this one was won and lost. Key to the winning was the peerless Kevin McLoughlin and we hear from the Knockmore man after the game.

Colm Keys of the Irish Independent was at MacHale Park for yesterday's big match and he joins the lads to give his reaction to Knockmore's win, as well as providing some thoughts on how he sees this year's winter inter-county Championship will take place.

Finally, on a weekend where the Mayo GAA TV service suffered some technical difficulties we have a piece on that, in which we hear from Mayo GAA PRO Paul Cunnane.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

The race for the Moclair Cup is coming nicely to the boil and, following last weekend's quarter-final action, just four clubs remain in contention for the title. With reigning champions Ballintubber out of the race, as are Ballaghaderreen and Castlebar Mitchels, this year's senior championship has been blown wide open and all four semi-finalists will harbour realistic hopes of lifting the cup.

In this latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast we review last weekend's quarter-finals and we look ahead to the coming weekend's semi-finals. Mayo News editor Mike Finnerty is the host for this episode and he's joined by his Mayo News colleagues Ger Flanagan and Edwin McGreal as together they set the scene for the semi-finals after a dramatic weekend of quarter-final action. Special guests for this episode are John Maughan, who previews the North Mayo derby between Ballina Stephenites and Knockmore, and Martin Carney, who looks ahead to the West Mayo clash between Breaffy and Westport.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

The group stages in this year's Mayo club football Championships were concluded last weekend while this coming weekend sees the quarter-finals played out in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Championships. With the races for the Moclair, Sweeney and McDonnell Cups now hotting up nicely, in this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we review the action from last weekend and look forward to the start of the knockouts.

Mayo News sports editor Mike Finnerty hosts this episode of the podcast and he's joined in studio by his Mayo News colleagues Edwin McGreal and Ger Flanagan as together they look back on all the weekend's action and set the scene for the quarter-finals. Special guest on this episode is Ardagh manager Sean Carey, the former Kiltane player and Mayo selector, with whom Mike met up following Ardagh's JFC clash with Eastern Gaels.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

With no inter-county action this summer due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the club championships within the county are generating more interest than usual. Clubs are also getting the chance to play championship ties in summertime and the two rounds of games contested so far have produced several high-quality contests.

In this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we fix our focus firmly on the club action. Host Rob Murphy is joined at Westport by Mike Finnerty, Sports Editor of the Mayo News, where they look back on what was a rip-roaring drawn match between the Covies and Charlestown. Rob also catches up after the game with ex-Charlestown and Mayo star John Casey, who was delighted by his club's defiant stand in a game where they simply had to avoid defeat.

From there we switch to the Mayo News offices on the Fair Green in Westport where Mike gets together with his Mayo News colleague Ger Flanagan to review all of the weekend's action. We also hear post-match audio, courtesy of Mayo GAA TV, from Charlestown's Tom Parsons and Padraig O'Hora of Ballina Stephenites.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

Billy Joe Padden's interviewing skills have been a major feature here on the Mayo News football podcast in recent months and in this episode he's back with another special guest.

This time, Billy Joe sits down for an in-depth discussion with Mayo GAA and Connacht Rugby star Gavin Duffy. The Ballina native enjoyed a varied sporting career, mainly in rugby where he was capped ten times for Ireland and played for both Connacht and English side Harlequins but also in gaelic football. In fact, Gavin's involvement with Mayo bookended his playing career, as he was a midfielder on the Mayo minor team that reached the All-Ireland final in 1999 and then, in 2014, he earned a surprising call-up from James Horan to the Senior county panel.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

The GAA world is inching ever closer to a return to play, As the long wait continues, however, this leaves time for more considered debate and so in this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we're back with another one-on-one discussion.

Billy Joe Padden returns to the interviewer's chair for this episode and his guest on this occasion is former county player, two-times Mayo manager and current Offaly bainisteoir John Maughan. Together they talk about John's experience of managing the Faithful County during the Covid-19 crisis and they look back over the Crossmolina man's long career both as a player and manager, focusing on his breakthrough in management with Clare and those heady days on the sideline with his native county. The highs and lows of Gaelic football management are discussed as well as the ways in which the role has changed in recent years.

This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog.

The Mayo News football podcast now has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.