Cathal Mullaney

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Journalist at Off The Ball

Sports broadcaster and journalist 🎙

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Articles

Time for Sligo to back progress with results - GAA - Western People

1 week ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

Hello again, nagging sense of what might have been. A three-point margin of victory for Mayo on Sunday last was probably a smaller margin than many predicted in the lead up to Sligo’s visit to Castlebar but, as things transpired, at least through black and white glasses, it could have been so much better.
Why have a good league when it could be great?

3 weeks ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

The battle for eyeballs is significant in the modern sporting landscape, but the GAA had as close as you’ll get to a clear run at it last weekend. The Irish women’s rugby team kicked off their Six Nations campaign at 1pm on Saturday – so that game was finished by 3 o’clock – and the Republic of Ireland men’s football team played their Nations League play-off second leg on Sunday evening. Both of those games took place outside of the throw-in times for the bulk of the weekend’s GAA action.
Underdogs could bark loudly in Castlebar - GAA - Western People

3 weeks ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

In sport, lots of characteristics are required in order to excel. You need to be talented, determined, committed and have a belief that you can do well. And in order to achieve, at various stages you may also need a healthy dollop of delusion to keep going when everyone else tells you it’d be smarter, and save you a lot of hassle, to stop altogether. As supporters, we also need some delusion to believe that our team can do well, even when all the odds are stacked against that actually happening.
No standout figure harming Irish soccer

1 month ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

With the men’s Six Nations now out of the way, the full sporting limelight will be afforded to the Republic of Ireland football team this week as they attempt to successfully navigate a Nations League play-off with Bulgaria. John Delaney certainly had his detractions as CEO of the FAI, but he was correct when he said the Irish football team was the biggest show in town.
LGFA has a lot done but much more to do - GAA - Western People

1 month ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

The LGFA held its annual Congress in Letterkenny in County Donegal last weekend, with local man Micheál Naughton – a native of Castleconnor – handing over the Presidential medal to his successor Trina Murray, who played for 13 years with Westmeath at inter-county level. Murray is the 14th President of the LGFA and it is quite possible she could be the last as integration looms on the horizon.
Stuttering start by McEntee’s men is cause for concern - GAA - Western People

1 month ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

MacHale Park was the venue for the best football match of the weekend, but about 150 kilometres away Mayo’s Connacht Championship opponents on April 6 were embroiled in a mini-classic of their own on Saturday night. Brewster Park in Enniskillen staged Sligo’s 19 points apiece draw with Fermanagh in Division 3, a result which gives Sligo their first point of the league campaign. That result has brought Sligo to a crossroads in their season, even at this early stage.
Young men, old rivals and a lost rugby soul

2 months ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

It was ironic that the sleepy Norwegian seaside town of Molde was where the career of one of our brightest young footballing prospects had its lift-off moment last week. Michael Noonan, a 16-year-old Transition Year student from Kildare, scored the only goal as Shamrock Rovers beat Molde 1-0 to secure a precious first leg advantage in their Europa Conference League play-off round tie.
Love is in the air ahead of LoI kick-off

2 months ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

Last weekend, there were mutterings around the south west about the GAA’s decision to hold Limerick’s Allianz Hurling League match with Tipperary at the Gaelic Grounds at the same time as Ireland’s Six Nations meeting with Scotland at Murrayfield. Usually, the GAA will go out of its way to avoid such clashes – just look at the Cork county board’s rationale for holding firm with the 7.30pm throw-in time for their meeting with Limerick a couple of weeks ago.
Top players are flourishing under new rules - GAA - Western People

2 months ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

Two weeks down and forever to go. Football’s new rules have now been road tested over two competitive weekends at inter-county level and there’s little doubt about it: they're working. Over the last two Saturdays and Sundays I’ve taken in four games and, on the basis of that admittedly small data set, it looks to me like the rule changes have breathed a new life into Gaelic football.
Underrated but proving himself yet again

2 months ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

The new Champions League group stage format reaches its crescendo this week and, for the first time in over a decade, Celtic will be part of the knockout stage. In the 2012-13 season, the Hoops managed to navigate their way through to the last 16 of the competition, with a famous 2-1 win over Barcelona at a rocking Celtic Park in the group stage the highlight of a memorable campaign.