Cathal Mullaney

Enniscrone

Journalist at Off The Ball

Sports broadcaster and journalist 🎙

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Articles

Why fitting in has been no bother to Slot

2 weeks ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

“A lot of football success is in the mind,” Bill Shankly once said, when speaking about his time as Liverpool manager as the club started to establish itself as a powerhouse in the 1960s. “You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are, in my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams in Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.” Shankly is a revered figure around Anfield, where his memory is immortalised in the form of a statue outside the ground.
Could Sam be snatched this year by a ‘bolter’?

3 weeks ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

For the final time, the football championship group stage will begin this weekend. The much maligned format – first introduced in 2023 – will cease at the end of this campaign with Congress deciding to introduce something resembling the old qualifier format for next season. There has been a lot of tinkering with the format of football's blue riband competition over the last 25 years, but the group stage format has had its benefits.
An unpredictable and tight race set to unfold

1 month ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

Such is the topsy turvy nature of this League of Ireland season that Bohemians manager Alan Reynolds went from being a man almost certain to lose his job last Monday lunchtime to suddenly being in charge of a side just two points off the top of the table by Friday night. It’s a reflection of the competitive nature of the fare so far this season in the Premier Division that just just three points separate the league leaders, Drogheda United, and Derry City in seventh.
Munster hurling remains box office

1 month ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

The spirit of the hurling championship was nicely encapsulated by Kilkenny great Richie Hogan, who was on analysis duty for GAA+ at Semple Stadium on Sunday for Tipperary’s meeting with Limerick.
Rory finally released from the weight of history - sport - Western People

1 month ago | westernpeople.ie | Cathal Mullaney

Studying in school rarely, if ever, grabs the imagination, but one line from our Leaving Cert English course always stood out to me. Derek Mahon's 'Antarctica' was part of the collection of poems we covered and in it, there's a standout line. Reacting to the decision of a captain who decided to give of his own life to help his comrades survive out in the ice and snow, Mahon used the line 'at the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime' to describe such a selfless gesture.
Time for Sligo to back progress with results - GAA - Western People

1 month 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?

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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.