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Colm Gannon reports from Hastings Insurance MacHale Park
BY THE SKIN of their teeth, Mayo picked up their second win of the All Ireland Senior Football Championship group series with a one point win over Louth in Castlebar.
With injury time almost up, Mayo pushed themselves five points clear when Fionn McDonagh fisted the ball over from close range. However, there was still time for late drama.
Conall McKeever was slipped in and hammered the ball past Colm Reape a minute later, cutting the gap to two points. In the next attack, Conor Grimes pointed, closing the gap to the bare minimum. Unfortunately for Louth, that was the last action of the day as referee Noel Mooney blew the final whistle after the resulting kick-out.
Mayo led by three points at halftime after a slow-burning first half. Louth retreated into their own half, clogging up the attacking avenues for Mayo which they struggled to break down.
It seemed like Mayo might cruise to victory early as they registered three points within the opening five minutes. Colm Reape nailed a free from 45m not long after the throw-in, and a minute later, Jack Carney cut inside to finish off a hand-passing move. Then, at the five-minute mark, Ryan O’Donoghue fisted the ball over to put his side three clear.
Sam Mulroy got the Louth scoreboard moving with a pointed free after eight minutes, giving them a footing in the game. David McBrien had a well-saved goal chance by James Califf at the quarter-hour mark, and shortly after, Aidan O’Shea scored a point from a free, putting Mayo three points ahead once more.
Mulroy drained a free from downtown to keep Mickey Harte’s men in touch, but that was quickly responded to by a point from Jordan Flynn, who collected the ball on the run at the second attempt.
Conor Grimes landed a long-range point, which was countered by a Ryan O’Donoghue free kick, keeping Mayo three points clear. Ciaran Downey slipped over a mark at the half-hour mark, keeping his side in touching distance of Mayo. Kevin McStay’s side went three points in front again shortly after when Stephen Coen raised a white flag from a mark.
Not long after the restart, Mayo went four points clear through Matthew Ruane. However, Louth kept in touch with Ciarán Downey scoring from long range, and Leonard Grey raising another white flag. Grey had a chance to score a goal after being played in behind the defense by McKeever, but his effort flew over the bar.
The heat sapped the energy in the legs off both sides, and they traded scores on two occasions keeping the gap at two points.
Points from Aidan O’Shea and Paddy Durcan pushed Mayo four points clear. Mulroy cut the gap back to three before another O’Shea free kick and McDonagh’s effort extended Mayo’s lead to five, seemingly securing victory. However, there was still time for some drama.
Scorers for Mayo: Aidan O’Shea (0-4, 4f), Ryan O’Donoghue (0-3, 2f), Colm Reape (0-1, 1f), Stephen Coen (0-1, 1m), Paddy Durcan (0-1), Matthew Ruane (0-1), Jack Carney (0-1), Jordan Flynn (0-1), Fionn McDonagh (0-1)
Scorers for Louth: Sam Mulroy (0-3, 3f), Conall McKeever (1-0), Ciaran Downey (0-2), Conor Grimes (0-2), Conor Early (0-1), Leonard Grey (0-1), Niall Sharkey (0-1)
1. Colm Reape (Knockmore)
2. Jack Coyne (Ballyhaunis), 3. David McBrien (Ballaghaderreen), 4. Sam Callinan (Ballina Stephenites)
24. Padraig O’Hora (Ballina Stephenites), 6. Conor Loftus (Crossmolina Deel Rovers), 7. Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore)
8. Matthew Ruane (Breaffy), 22. Donnacha McHugh (Castlebar Mitchels)
18. Jason Doherty (Burrishoole), 11. Jack Carney (Kilmeena), 12. Jordan Flynn (Crossmolina Deel Rovers)
13. Aidan O’Shea (Breaffy), 14. James Carr (Ardagh), 15. Ryan O’Donoghue (Beal an Mhuirthead)
Subs:
Louth
1. James Califf (Dreadnots)
19. Bevan Duffy (St Fechins), 3. Peter Lynch (Roche Emmetts), 4. Donal McKenny (St Marys)
5. Leonard Grey (St Patricks), 6. Niall Sharkey (Glyde Rangers), 7. Anthony Williams (Dreadnots)
8. Tommy Durnin (Iniskeen Grattans), 9. Conor Early (Na Fianna)
10. Conall McKeever (Clan na Gael), 11. Ciaran Downey (Newtown Blues), 12. Conor Grimes (Glen Emmets)
22. Conalll McCaul (St Josephs), 14. Sam Mulroy (Naomh Martin), 26. Ciaran Murphy (St Patrick’s)
Subs:
Referee: Noel Mooney (Cavan)
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The more I read and research, the more I think the EU is a scam, and our boys have fallen for it hook, line and sinker.
what did you find in your research?
They all genuinely believed in it.
Most external economists pointed out the inherent flaws and problems it would cause, famous noble economist Milton Friedman, wrote a prescient article in the late 90′s outlining why.
It reads like a summary of the last 15 years.
Germany, France, Italy, Holland are all locked in to sub-par or zero growth as far as the eye can see.
The continent will be long burst before the current strategy delivers.
The project itself is flawed, not just the regulation.
And the scam continues
The EU is a disaster. It’s only a matter of time until ‘the rules’ don’t suit the big guys anymore and then BANG little old Ireland having taken the hit for so long will be back in the mire due to ‘unforeseen crisis’ watch this space. It’s shagged.
Certainly the larger states have a habit of ignoring EU directives or having laws fudged for them.
However the Euro has destroyed their growth as well.
Germany, Holland, France, Italy all have had sub par growth or decline for 15 years.
All have seen trade with each other decline in since Euro came in.
Think that’s bad, check out EU’s own growth predications for the next 10 years… Then look at Youth unemployment figures across the med and here right now. EU bang on about tough decisions etc etc, the real tough decision that needs to be made is for somebody to admit this is a failure sooner rather than later.
Yet no one will talk about them.
The Eurozone is an economic disaster for internal trade, jobs, growth, etc etc.
It is destroying the North of Europe as surely as the South, just at a slower pace and their exports are hiding it.
We are going to have to wait a few more years, the Eurozone and EU have a cult following and loyalty.
They can’t fix it, the devaluations to bring the disparate forces in to line would destroy demand and employment in most of the continent for decades to come.
If I ever meet anyone who admits to voting for Brian Hayes I will slap them. The cost of this monster has been €8000 per head. This elephant can’t be fed and we are killing ourselves and starving our children trying.
Where do you get the €8000 per head figure from?
Ireland has paid 42% of the total cost of the European banking crisis, at a cost of close to €9,000 per person, according to Eurostat.
That’s were I got figure
“Ireland has paid 42% of the total cost of the European banking crisis, at a cost of close to €9,000 per person, according to Eurostat.”
Germany’s bank bailout cost her ~€300 billion.
Ireland’s cost her ~€65 billion.
65 billion isn’t even 25% of 300 billion.
If we didn’t even pay for a quarter of Germany’s bank bailout, how could we have paid for 42% of the whole of Europe’s.
The 42% figure is propagated by people who either can’t interpret figures correctly or more deviously, people with an agenda for whom fact does not matter.
Every single Eastern European capital has mover closer to the Viennese standard of living except Slovenia’s. Key difference, it is in the Euro.
For 15 years the Eurozone has had problems with growth, half of it has been chronic.
The ECB itself does not predict any decent growth this decade, especially in the well run North of it.
There is something far deeper wrong here than just the banking regulation.
no matter how fast you spin it this is bad news and further ties us into Euro and EU, no accountability, it means things like MARP can’t happen in response to national crises and this model is untested. It means a regulator is unaccountable and not appointed by elected government. The ECB is also not accountable and the name is as miss leading. The Emperor has no clothes.
Jobs for the boys on a European scale! All looking out for themselves!
Job for which boys? Banking regulators? Oh gawd…
An Irish politician educating us on how banks work….isn’t that a contradiction!
Most of Europe’s banks at the time were broke as well, including German ones.
They just let us take the hit and later on flooded their own ones with cheap LTRO trillions.
You have Germans telling us they are an economic miracle with 2% growth. Holland is a stable success story with bare growth for 10 years.
Sick parody.
He’s educating us about banking supervision – not how banks work.
@ Seanie: With aging populations and shrinking workforces, where exactly is the new growth going to come from?
” new pan-eurozone Single Supervisory Mechanism. ” – & so, the plot thickens…
“Staff working on the Supervisory Mechanism will not be entitled to regulate banks in their home country.”
Imagine if this had been the case in Celtic Tiger Ireland…
“Let’s remember that the financial crisis was truly European in nature and to eradicate potential future contagion, we need to develop a unified European approach.” Really????
So when people spoke out about the EU not being fit for purpose Brian, you told us it was a global issue/crisis starting with Lehman Brothers…No???
I for one certainly agree that most of our current problems are “truly European in nature”, but not exclusively. Cowards in FF, FG and LB also share that accolade.
have your say