Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 4

boosabum

Dome being inflated today in Bekan

mayo.mick

The *Prenty* dome being inflated today....

https://twitter.com/ConnachtGAA/status/1286311998096056322

seligehgit

mayo.mick wrote: »

The *Prenty* dome being inflated today....

https://twitter.com/ConnachtGAA/status/1286311998096056322

Report imminent re same on six one news.

rrs

McHale Park is the only County ground in Connacht with floodlights. The Doome looks a great project, but Prenty seems to be very Mayo focused.
Should the Connacht GAA Facility not be in Roscommon. It borders all the Connacht Counties. more accessible for the likes of Leitrim,

SomethingElse

rrs wrote: »

McHale Park is the only County ground in Connacht with floodlights. The Doome looks a great project, but Prenty seems to be very Mayo focused.
Should the Connacht GAA Facility not be in Roscommon. It borders all the Connacht Counties. more accessible for the likes of Leitrim,

Yeah but if it was in Roscommon it would still somehow end up waterlogged.

Blackjack

rrs wrote: »

McHale Park is the only County ground in Connacht with floodlights. The Doome looks a great project, but Prenty seems to be very Mayo focused.
Should the Connacht GAA Facility not be in Roscommon. It borders all the Connacht Counties. more accessible for the likes of Leitrim,

Bekan is as central in Connacht as you possibly could be. There are Clubs in Mayo that are further away from Bekan than Clubs in any other county (including Leitrim).

Hulk Hands

rrs wrote: »

McHale Park is the only County ground in Connacht with floodlights. The Doome looks a great project, but Prenty seems to be very Mayo focused.
Should the Connacht GAA Facility not be in Roscommon. It borders all the Connacht Counties. more accessible for the likes of Leitrim,

The only recent AI winners in Connacht are the Galway hurlers. Once again completely screwed and ignored by CC

irishgeo

Hulk Hands wrote: »

The only recent AI winners in Connacht are the Galway hurlers. Once again completely screwed and ignored by CC

perhaps because headquarters are managing your finances and you cant be trusted with money is the issue.

Hulk Hands

irishgeo wrote: »

perhaps because headquarters are managing your finances and you cant be trusted with money is the issue.

As if yer one to talk. How's those stadium repayments coming along? Still charging donors 100k for oranges?

Galway Hurlers are a nuisance to CC. Go somewhere else and leave us be. Goes as far back as 1989 when Mayo and the other Connacht counties voted against Tony Keady in move that didn't affect them in the slightest, so was nothing more than sheer bitterness and jealousy.

White lighting

SomethingElse wrote: »

Yeah but if it was in Roscommon it would still somehow end up waterlogged.

Roscommon county pitch has the best surface in Connaught at the moment. So your little pathetic dig doesn't way up much. McHale is probably the worst surface out of the 5 county grounds

muddle84

Sure it has to go somewhere, it makes perfect sense to me to put it in the Connacht centre of excellence. Just because the Galway hurlers won an All Ireland (fair play to them!!) doesn't mean that the Connacht Centre of Excellence should be moved to Galway all of a sudden.

Do the Galway hurlers still have the land they bought for their own centre of excellence?

muddle84

According to google maps:
Belmullet GAA to Prenty Bowl: 1hr 40 minutes https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Belmullett+GAA,+Tonmore,+Belmullet,+County+Mayo/Connacht+Gaelic+Athletic+Association+Centre+of+Excellence,+Cloonacurry,+Knock,+Co.+Mayo/@54.009414,-9.6668683,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4859a9b0f5bf53eb:0xe6c456acee83cadd!2m2!1d-10.0030266!2d54.2509164!1m5!1m1!1s0x48595569886b209f:0x9a4dbe76194397e4!2m2!1d-8.8507838!2d53.7744415!3e0

Clifden GAA to Prenty Bowl: 1hr 45 minutes https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Clifden+GAA+grounds,+Hospital+Rd,+Tullyvoheen,+Clifden,+Co.+Galway/Connacht+Gaelic+Athletic+Association+Centre+of+Excellence,+Cloonacurry,+Knock,+Co.+Mayo/@53.6748143,-9.2590033,10z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x485a24b358efd99d:0xc3f4a2f3f19da67a!2m2!1d-10.0159057!2d53.491728!1m5!1m1!1s0x48595569886b209f:0x9a4dbe76194397e4!2m2!1d-8.8507838!2d53.7744415

CLG Naomh Anna to Prenty Bowl: 1hr 46 minutes https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Sportlann+Naomh+Anna,+Murvagh+Island,+Lettermore,+County+Galway/Connacht+Gaelic+Athletic+Association+Centre+of+Excellence,+Cloonacurry,+Knock,+Co.+Mayo/@53.5143379,-9.1962063,9.67z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x485a4b75714c597f:0x30562da0b18027fc!2m2!1d-9.660154!2d53.2781518!1m5!1m1!1s0x48595569886b209f:0x9a4dbe76194397e4!2m2!1d-8.8507838!2d53.7744415

Portumna GAA to Prenty bowl : 1hr 31 minutes https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Portumna+GAA+Club,+Fairyhill,+Portumna,+County+Galway/Connacht+Gaelic+Athletic+Association+Centre+of+Excellence,+Cloonacurry,+Knock,+Co.+Mayo/@53.4437269,-9.1386007,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x485c8a113e8dbf19:0xb3e528e03b000cfa!2m2!1d-8.217582!2d53.0889101!1m5!1m1!1s0x48595569886b209f:0x9a4dbe76194397e4!2m2!1d-8.8507838!2d53.7744415

Padraig Pearses GAA to Prenty Bowl: 1hr 17minutes https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Padraig+Pearses+GAA+Club,+Woodmount,+Ballinasloe,+County+Roscommon/Connacht+Gaelic+Athletic+Association+Centre+of+Excellence,+Cloonacurry,+Knock,+Co.+Mayo/@53.5569659,-8.7792327,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x485c4279e8c3e7af:0xdfabc2eb53618d95!2m2!1d-8.1548083!2d53.3371283!1m5!1m1!1s0x48595569886b209f:0x9a4dbe76194397e4!2m2!1d-8.8507838!2d53.7744415

Melvin Gaels GAA to Prenty Bowl: 1hr 31 minutes https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Melvin+Gaels+GAA+Club,+Melvin+Park,+Kinlough,+Co.+Leitrim/Connacht+Gaelic+Athletic+Association+Centre+of+Excellence,+Cloonacurry,+Knock,+Co.+Mayo/@53.743831,-9.8918421,8.46z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x485efcdd21d40f21:0xbef2cf07437a15e3!2m2!1d-8.2854795!2d54.44767!1m5!1m1!1s0x48595569886b209f:0x9a4dbe76194397e4!2m2!1d-8.8507838!2d53.7744415

Its hard to see the basis for an argument that its not centred in Connacht based on the above. I don't know where the Aran Islands pitch is but they would be the only club above 2 hours from Bekan. So maybe it should have been built on the Aran islands?

Hulk Hands

muddle84 wrote: »

Sure it has to go somewhere, it makes perfect sense to me to put it in the Connacht centre of excellence. Just because the Galway hurlers won an All Ireland (fair play to them!!) doesn't mean that the Connacht Centre of Excellence should be moved to Galway all of a sudden.

Do the Galway hurlers still have the land they bought for their own centre of excellence?

No that's fair and Bekan is somewhat central but the original posters point stands about Castlebar having the only existing floodlights and then the vanity project from the <snip> also going up in Mayo. If you had to go ahead with it I'd have picked somewhere Roscommon side of Athlone, even Kiltoom for decent road access for most. The more prudent option though would've been to spend the grant in a different way, possibly with a north Connacht and south base. Sligo, the town in particular, is the second big population base in the county and has been completely ignored in Prentys 25 years. Hard seeing them use this facility.

With regards to the hurlers, it's more of a wider point about the game not being wanted by CC. The seniors are not the worst now because they at least get a degree of gate receipts from Leinster. It's the likes of the minor Hurlers (incidentally the top performing team in the province by a mile) that get screwed as nobody wants them, least of all their own provincial council which has long wanted hurling dead. Camogie would be similar. The facility won't be used (nor will they even be welcomed) by any Galway hurling team who'll use local. Portumna (Connacht's most successful club) and surrounding region of strong player numbers is way too far to be a realistic resource. For a Connacht facility, a lot of Connacht wont avail of it.

muddle84

Hulk Hands wrote: »

No that's fair and Bekan is somewhat central but the original posters point stands about Castlebar having the only existing floodlights and then the vanity project from the Mayo dictator also going up in Mayo. If you had to go ahead with it I'd have picked somewhere Roscommon side of Athlone, even Kiltoom for decent road access for most. The more prudent option though would've been to spend the grant in a different way, possibly with a north Connacht and south base. Sligo, the town in particular, is the second big population base in the county and has been completely ignored in Prentys 25 years. Hard seeing them use this facility.

With regards to the hurlers, it's more of a wider point about the game not being wanted by CC. The seniors are not the worst now because they at least get a degree of gate receipts from Leinster. It's the likes of the minor Hurlers (incidentally the top performing team in the province by a mile) that get screwed as nobody wants them, least of all their own provincial council which has long wanted hurling dead. Camogie would be similar. The facility won't be used (nor will they even be welcomed) by any Galway hurling team who'll use local. Portumna (Connacht's most successful club) and surrounding region of strong player numbers is way too far to be a realistic resource. For a Connacht facility, a lot of Connacht wont avail of it.

This year is a little different but i know alot of co workers( i work in galway) would be up and down to bekan for underage hurling regularly throughout the year and they never complain bar the usual Mayo Galway banter. I'm sure they'll like the dome even more.

If the centre of excellence or dome was in Kiltoom it would be used even less. To me putting it on the very eastern edge of the province would be useless. Its less than two hours from every club in the province except the Aran Islands where it is now. If it was in Kiltoom its now nealry 3 hours away from some clubs, where is the logic there apart from it being less than an hour from Portumna?

Out of interest what is your local club or vacinity if youd rather not say?

yop

Great facility. I can see the point of why Bekan but its central to a lot of the main towns in each of the counties.
Be interesting to see its use.

Fair play to CC for getting it in though, can see plenty outside boiling with rage about it. Hope its utilised now by all counties.

White lighting

muddle84 wrote: »

This year is a little different but i know alot of co workers( i work in galway) would be up and down to bekan for underage hurling regularly throughout the year and they never complain bar the usual Mayo Galway banter. I'm sure they'll like the dome even more.

If the centre of excellence or dome was in Kiltoom it would be used even less. To me putting it on the very eastern edge of the province would be useless. Its less than two hours from every club in the province except the Aran Islands where it is now. If it was in Kiltoom its now nealry 3 hours away from some clubs, where is the logic there apart from it being less than an hour from Portumna?

Out of interest what is your local club or vacinity if youd rather not say?

It would not be useless based around Kiltoom. Do you realise the amount of clubs from Mayo,Sligo,Leitrim and Galway that rent pitch's to train from St.Brigids,Clann Na nGeal and Padraig Pearses in south Roscommon during the summer months. On a given night during the summer you could have 4 Connacht clubs using the facilities with it been central for clubs with players based in Dublin Galway Limerick and at home. How many clubs use Bekan? its a very under used facility because it does not suit anyone really apart from Mayo.
Its a fine set up but some waste of money

irishgeo

Hulk Hands wrote: »

No that's fair and Bekan is somewhat central but the original posters point stands about Castlebar having the only existing floodlights and then the vanity project from the <snip> also going up in Mayo. If you had to go ahead with it I'd have picked somewhere Roscommon side of Athlone, even Kiltoom for decent road access for most. The more prudent option though would've been to spend the grant in a different way, possibly with a north Connacht and south base. Sligo, the town in particular, is the second big population base in the county and has been completely ignored in Prentys 25 years. Hard seeing them use this facility.

With regards to the hurlers, it's more of a wider point about the game not being wanted by CC. The seniors are not the worst now because they at least get a degree of gate receipts from Leinster. It's the likes of the minor Hurlers (incidentally the top performing team in the province by a mile) that get screwed as nobody wants them, least of all their own provincial council which has long wanted hurling dead. Camogie would be similar. The facility won't be used (nor will they even be welcomed) by any Galway hurling team who'll use local. Portumna (Connacht's most successful club) and surrounding region of strong player numbers is way too far to be a realistic resource. For a Connacht facility, a lot of Connacht wont avail of it.

But Galway rebuilt salthill and didn't include floodlights. How is that the CC fault?

RedDevil55

White lighting wrote: »

It would not be useless based around Kiltoom. Do you realise the amount of clubs from Mayo,Sligo,Leitrim and Galway that rent pitch's to train from St.Brigids,Clann Na nGeal and Padraig Pearses in south Roscommon during the summer months. On a given night during the summer you could have 4 Connacht clubs using the facilities with it been central for clubs with players based in Dublin Galway Limerick and at home. How many clubs use Bekan? its a very under used facility because it does not suit anyone really apart from Mayo.
Its a fine set up but some waste of money

Cathal Cregg said in the news that over 50,000 players went through the gates in 2019. If society gets back close to normal next year I'm sure demand will be even higher with an indoor facility.

Bekan is central in the province and only 5 minutes off the n17 so has decent road access.

spakman

rrs wrote: »

McHale Park is the only County ground in Connacht with floodlights. The Doome looks a great project, but Prenty seems to be very Mayo focused.
Should the Connacht GAA Facility not be in Roscommon. It borders all the Connacht Counties. more accessible for the likes of Leitrim,

Look at Bekan on the map, its as close to the centre of the province as you could get.

rrs

Leitrim and Sligo have Centre of excellences developed in the past few years. Roscommon are developing a Dermot Early Centre of excellence. How much use would these Counties need from the Connacht GAA Centre.? The Air dome will be of use in bad weather, but the Centre looks to be primarily for Mayo

muddle84

rrs wrote: »

Leitrim and Sligo have Centre of excellences developeThe Air dome will be of use in bad weather, but the Centre looks to be primarily for Mayo

Who would want to play in a dome in good weather?

rrs

I said it would be of use in bad weather. The FBD games, probaly competitions at end of year if pitches are in ****e but would likely be idle a fair bit

RedDevil55

Colm Boyle back playing for Davitts this evening apparently.

seligehgit

RedDevil55 wrote: »

Colm Boyle back playing for Davitts this evening apparently.

Great stuff.

He was on the bench for the challenge game v Ballyhaunis the Wednesday before last.

lillielad

RedDevil55 wrote: »

Colm Boyle back playing for Davitts this evening apparently.

I'm a Kildare man but family connections from Mayo, just want to say that's incredible stuff the mans an inspiration and one of the toughest players out there. Can't wait to see the lad back wearing a Mayo jersey.

TCDStudent1

Is the Mayo championship taking the same format as last few years of 1 home, 1 away & 1 neutral group match?

RedDevil55

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Is the Mayo championship taking the same format as last few years of 1 home, 1 away & 1 neutral group match?

Yes that's still the format.

TCDStudent1

RedDevil55 wrote: »

Yes that's still the format.

Thanks, I was wondering if they might not play at some of the 'smaller' grounds due to crowd restrictions.

Coillte_Bhoy

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Thanks, I was wondering if they might not play at some of the 'smaller' grounds due to crowd restrictions.

There will be no 'double headers' now anyway

seligehgit

Mayo GAA TV will be streaming the following games.

Charlestown Sarsfields v Castlebar Mitchels

Ballintubber v Aghamore

Breaffy v Westport