1 David Clarke - Ballina Stephenites

2 Lee Keegan - Westport
3 Ger Cafferkey - Ballina Stephenites
4 Keith Higgins - Ballyhaunis

5 Peadar Gardiner - Crossmolina
6 Donal Vaughan - Ballinrobe
7 Richie Feeney - Castlebar Mitchels

8 Seamus O'Shea - Breaffy
9 Patrick Harte - Ballina Stephenites

10 Kevin McLoughlin - Knockmore
11 Alan Freeman - Aghamore
12 Alan Dillon - Ballintubber

13 Conor Mortimer - Shrule-Glencorrib
14 Barry Moran - Castlebar Mitchels
15 Andy Moran - Ballaghaderreen

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16 Robert Hennelly - Breaffy
17 Kevin Keane - Westport
18 Danny Kirby - Castlebar Mitchels
19 Aidan O'Shea - Breaffy
20 Cillian O'Connor - Ballintubber
21 Enda Varley - Garrymore
22 Eoghan Reilly - Castlebar Mitchels
23 Michael Conroy - Davitts
24 Chris Barrett - Belmullet
25 Jason Doherty - Burrishoole
26 Colm Boyle - Davitts

Manager: James Horan
Trainer: Cian O'Neill
Selector: James Nallen
Selector: Tom Prendergast

Hurling doesn't feature too often on the Mayo GAA pages but lest we forget the 2012 National Hurling League is also starting later this month. Mayo will be battling it out in Div 2B against Roscommon, Armagh, Meath, Kildare and London. Keith Higgins has been appointed captain for 2012 and in preparation for the league they played Sligo last weekend in a challenge game ... and it was success for Mayo on a scoreline 1-16 to 0-11.

 

League Fixtures

Sun 26 Feb v Roscommon (a - Athleague)
Sun 11 March v Meath (h - McHale Park) - set for 12.45 with Mayo v Down football at 2.30
Sun 18 March v Armagh (a - Armagh)
Sat 24 March  v London (a - Ruislip)
Sun 1 April v Kildare (h - McHale Park)

FBD Home Final
Mayo v NUIG
McHale Park - Friday 27th Jan at 7.30 pm
Conditions somewhere between nippy and freezing. Decent crowd nonetheless (1000+?)
6 mins - no score
7 mins NUIG get the first score Mayo 0-00 NUIG 0-01
11 mins Alan Freeman point - Mayo 0-01 : NUIG 0-01
12 mins Freeman with anothe point Mayo ahead 2-1 
14 Mins - Freeman again - Mayo ahead 3-1
16 mins - NUIG point (Neil Douglas) Mayo 0-03 : NUIG 0-02
19 mins - Andy Moran makes it Mayo 0-04 NUIG 0-02
20 mins - And Andy gets a quick second Mayo lead 5-2
21 mins - Conor Mortimer gets in on the act Mayo 0-06 NUIG 0-02
24 mins - coming in pairs as Conor gets his 2nd (f) - Mayo 0-07 NUIG 0-02
30 mins - NUIG get 1 back Mayo 0-07 NUIG 0-03
30+ mins - Andy with his third Mayo 0-08 NUIG 0-03
HALF TIME - Mayo 5 points up 0-08 to 0-03. Freeman 3, AMoran3  and Mort 2
35 mins - 5 mins into 2nd half still 0-08 to 0-03
36 mins NUIG with a point Mayo 0-08 NUIG 0-04
38 mins - subs - S O'Shea replaces his brother Aidan and Cillian O'Connor in for A Moran
41 mins - Mayo still to get off the mark in 2nd half
42 mins - no sooner said . Mortimer obliges Mayo lead 9-4
43 mins - Barry Moran adds another Mayo 0-10 NUIG 0-04
43 mins - Kevin McLoughlin adds another Mayo 11-4 up
46 mins - Mortimer gets his 4th of the night 12-4
47 mins - subs Eoghan O'Reilly and Colm Boyle replace Cafferkey and Richie Feeney
50 mins - Mort with 5th Mayo 0-13 NUIG 0-04
51 mins - Sub Evan Regan on for Alan Freeman
60 mins - Lee Keegan gets on the scoreboard Mayo 0-14 NUIG 0-04. It's not over but it's over if you catch the meaning.
Full Time : Mayo 0-14 NUIG 0-04.
Mayo win the FBD 'Home' Final so the real trophy of an 'October trip to NY' has been retained. 
Scorers : Mortimer 5, Freeman 3, Andy Moran 3, Barry Moran, McLoughlin and Keegan 1 each.
Kevin McLoughlin get Man of the Match.
Alan Dillon lifts the cup while the MoM looks on
https://twitter.com/#!/MayoGAABlog/status/163002791869157376/photo/1 Credit MayoGaaBlog

Well done and Congrats to all concerned. 100% record in 2012 so far!!

Next up Laois in the Allianze National League - Portlaoise 4th Feb @ 7 pm

		David Clarke
		Ballina
Keith Higgins		Ger Cafferkey		Lee Keegan
Ballyhaunis		Ballina		Westport
Peadar Gardiner		Donal Vaughan		Richie Feeney
Crossmolina		Ballinrobe		Castlebar
	Barry Moran		Aidan O'Shea
	Castlebar		Ballina
Kevin McLoughlin		Alan Dillon		Pat Harte
Knockmore		Ballintubber		Ballina
Alan Freeman		Andy Moran		Conor Mortimer
Aghamore		Ballaghaderreen		Parnells

 

16) Conor Campbell - Swinford

17) Seamus O'Shea - Breaffy

18) Eoghan Reilly - Castlebar Mitchels

19) Michael Walsh - Ardnaree

20) Chris Barrett - Belmullet

21) Jason Gibbons - Ballintubber

22) Danny Kirby - Castlebar Mitchels

23) Cillian O'Connor - Ballintubber

24) Michael Conroy - Davitts

25) Michael Forde - Ballycastle

26) Evan Regan - Ballina Stephenites

27) Shane McHale - Knockmore

28) Colm Boyle - Davitts

29) Alan Feeney - Castlebar Mitchels

30) Enda Varley - Garrymore

A game that Mayo showed all the signs, in the first half, as one that mayo would win easily. But in the end we needed to late points from Barry Moran and Alan Dillon to stumble across the line .....

FBD Home Final
Mayo v NUIG
McHale Park @ 7.30 on Friday night

Result : Mayo 0-14: Roscommon 1-09
Mayo just about get across the line in the end. Having being 7-2 up at half time it looked like Mayo had this game under control. But Roscommon came back strong in second half and got to level the score at 0-12 to 1-09 before Mayo sealed it with two late scores.
Mayo are only team in FBD with 100% record - see table below - as NUIG were surprisingly beaten by IT Sligo last night.