Mayo vs Galway

Mayo play Galway this afternoon in the 2023 Allianz Football League Division 1 final at Croke Park. These sides clashed all the way back on matchday one ...

Galway team to play Mayo Galway 0-1 Mayo 0-3 Full time: Galway 0-11 Mayo 0-14

Sunday will see longtime rivals Mayo and Galway face each other in the Allianz National Football League Final. Thousands of fans will head to Croke Park on ...

Galway stuttered before a late surge, including going some way to avenging their All-Ireland defeat to Kerry last summer. Mayo ran out three-point winners in Mayo, take the lead! The Mayo fan can be heard hollering: "Bus, there's the Galway bus! Read more:

Allianz Football League Division One Final Mayo 0-14 Galway 0-11 By Cian O'Connell at Croke Park This was a satisfactory afternoon at GAA headquarters for ...

O'Donoghue thumped over two frees and the excellent Jack Coyne contributed a critical point. It was Mayo's first score from play since Flynn's 16th minute effort. Walsh and Cooke clipped points, but then Mayo reeled off three in a row to seal the deal. Mayo, though, replied as O'Donoghue and goalkeeper Colm Reape thumped over frees to ensure Mayo led 0-8 to 0-5 at the turnaround. At the opposite end of the field Mayo were restricting Galway, forcing a couple of turovers. Ultimately that was the difference between the teams with the Mayo faithful in the 45, 041 crowd saluting the victory with a throaty roar at the end of a tight game.

Final Mayo 0-14. Galway 0-11. Mike Finnerty Croke Park. THE sound of Mayo's unofficial anthem — 'The Green and Red of Mayo' by The Sawdoctors' — rang out at ...

Colm Reape — who only made his league debut against Galway two months ago — stole most of the headlines with a string of superb saves and three brilliantly-taken place-kicks. Mayo weren’t as fluid as they had been in the opening quarter but their counter-attacking game was creating chances, and a well-struck ‘45 from Colm Reape, along with another Ryan O’Donoghue point helped to keep the Tribesmen at arm’s length. Robert Finnerty split the posts twice after the restart to leave just a kick of the ball between the teams and, from there to the finish, there was very little to choose between the teams. Early scores from Colm Reape (a nerveless free from almost 45m), James Carr and Ryan O’Donoghue (free) settled the early nerves, and a further hat-trick of points from O’Donoghue (a mark), Paddy Durcan and Jordan Flynn saw them pull further ahead. The Kilcacud Crokes attacker was Galway’s most threatening forward in that second quarter and he tagged on a couple of trademark points — including one audacious effort from play — to get last year’s Division 2 finalists back into contention. In front of an attendance of 45,041, McStay’s charges set the tone early and were 0-6 to 0-1 up by the end of the first quarter.

A fittingly grim final for a gruesome competition but this new Mayo wave will take plenty from winning ugly against their most familiar foes.

Sweeney (65); D. Finnerty (62); D. Hernon (h-t); T. Ruane (70); P. Carr (56); M. Heaney (inj 33); J. McDonagh (66); B. McBrien (h-t); T. Finnerty (0-2, 1 mark); S. Reape (0-3, 2 frees, 1 45); J. Walsh (0-5, 2 frees, 1 45); R. O’Donoghue (0-7, 5 frees, 2 marks); C.