Anthony Hennigan

Foxford

Sports Editor/Deputy Editor at Western People

Sports Editor/Deputy Editor at the Western People. NNI Regional Journalist of the Year 2013. Mad for a bit of football and fiddle!

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Mayo pay dearly for second-half slump - GAA - Western People

1 day ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

A game that at half-time promised so much more ended up running away on Mayo, who commenced their LGFA All-Ireland Championship with a six points defeat at the hands of the defending champions on Saturday afternoon. Kerry looked as though they might be in a spot of bother when leading by just the one point after the opening thirty minutes, considering Mayo had a significant breeze in their favour from thereon.
No secrets just hard work as Coen and comrades get back on track - GAA - Western People

3 days ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

He had been just about the only bright spark on an otherwise dour day for Mayo football the fortnight before. As long as the odds were on Cavan beating the Green and Red in the opening round of the All-Ireland SFC, the odds of Stephen Coen scoring four points from play would have been multiples of that.
Devastation but no excuses as Ray rues crucial misses

4 days ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

Not one excuse would Ray Larkin offer for his side’s defeat. Personally, I’d have forgiven him one. Roscommon had just scored their first point in fifteen minutes when Shane Boland stood over a Mayo free, the sliotar placed to the right of centre about 45-metres out from the Davin End goal. It was the 70th minute of the match and to score would give Mayo a three points advantage.
Will President’s show of solidarity be the answer to Mayo’s prayers?

4 days ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

Jarlath Burns admitted saying a decade of the rosary while on his way from Croke Park to Westport for last Monday’s special meeting of Mayo County Board. He isn’t the first man to have resorted to prayer on matters Mayo GAA. His journey west to another Sorrowful Mystery had transported the GAA president back to his boyhood and to the Burns’ family’s annual Easter pilgrimage to Knock. He recalled the three rosaries that had to be said along the way. You’d wonder why just the one this time then.
Emails reveal intense intimidation of Mayo officials - sport - Western People

5 days ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

When John Gibbons, the delegate for Louisburgh GAA club, said he didn’t think someone “could stoop that low”, he seemed to speak for an entire room. Perhaps never before has a GAA meeting anywhere in the country exposed such vitriol as what was presented to club representatives at a specially convened gathering of Mayo County Board last week. “I’m horrified by what I have heard,” added John Farragher, the Garrymore rep. “We didn’t want to do this,” explained Ronan Kirrane, the Mayo GAA secretary.
Mayo defy the odds to turn tables on Tyrone - GAA - Western People

1 week ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

Crisis. What crisis? A week that began with Mayo making headlines for unfortunate off-the-pitch reasons, has ended with the senior footballers doing what they do best – upsetting the applecart. A sobering defeat at home to Cavan in the first round of the All-Ireland SFC saw their odds to win Sam Maguire extend to 100/1. On Saturday evening they visited Omagh and served up a seven points beating of Tyrone.
Rochford reveals his hand for Tyrone trip

1 week ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

Rory Brickenden returns to the Mayo team in what is the only change to the starting 15 from the side’s defeat at home to Cavan in the opening round of the All-Ireland SFC. Mayo will travel to play Tyrone on Saturday evening with Stephen Rochford in temporary charge, after the decision of manager Kevin McStay to stand aside this week on health grounds. Brickenden, who started the Connacht SFC final, is preferred to Sam Callinan who takes his place on the bench.
Am I the only person who thinks to build a Centre of Excellence in Bohola is utter madness?

1 week ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

If the ears of Kevin McStay and Stephen Rochford were burning last week, it wasn’t just because of the dawn to dusk sunshine. As their predecessor James Horan explained, the “jungle drums” were beating loudly across the Plain of the Yews. And while the rain has now come, the heat has remained. You’d have thought 70,000 and not 7,000 had been in MacHale Park to see Mayo lose to Cavan such was the outpouring of opinions – on the street and on social media – about the defeat.
'Toxic' threats force Mayo GAA officials to contact Gardaí

1 week ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

Executive officers of Mayo County Board have laid bare a shocking tale of intimidation and toxic threats to which they have been subjected, with confirmation from chairperson Seamus Tuohy that he and treasurer Valerie Murphy are to submit formal statements to An Garda Síochána later this week.
Underdogs Mayo unable to cause final upset

2 weeks ago | westernpeople.ie | Anthony Hennigan

You wondered might Mayo be waiting in the long grass, but Galway took a strimmer to Green and Red hopes of a MacHale Park ambush when retaining their Connacht LGFA Senior Championship title with some comfort on Sunday afternoon. The Tribeswomen were nine points winners, 0-16 to 1-4, with Mayo scoring just twice from play in exceptionally windy conditions.