| The Curse Of Mayo 18:23 - Sep 16 with 6897 views | ted_hendrix |
Will hopefully be lifted on Sunday then you can have the craic. |  |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 18:53 - Sep 16 with 5834 views | markrtid |
Is it Simons' birthday this Sunday? Who gets to give him the bumps?
Don't ask me as I would have dropped him at birth. |  | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 19:31 - Sep 16 with 5791 views | CamberleyR |
Sorry Ted, but with family from the capital it is
on Sunday |  |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 02:14 - Sep 17 with 5687 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Hope they do it but not expecting it. |  |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 02:35 - Sep 17 with 5684 views | Boston |
There is a tower in Aghagower
and a church without a steeple,
where half dressed whores
stand behind half cut doors,
insulting decent people. |  |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 03:17 - Sep 17 with 5672 views | MrSheen |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 19:31 - Sep 16 by CamberleyR |
Sorry Ted, but with family from the capital it is
on Sunday |
ABD! ABD! ABD! Won't happen though. |  | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 10:17 - Sep 17 with 5599 views | Dorse |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 19:31 - Sep 16 by CamberleyR |
Sorry Ted, but with family from the capital it is
on Sunday |
Only righteous dub. |  |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 11:04 - Sep 17 with 5574 views | ted_hendrix |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 19:31 - Sep 16 by CamberleyR |
Sorry Ted, but with family from the capital it is
on Sunday |
Wife's family are all from Mayo, here's the info on the curse for those that don't know about it.
The towns and villages of Mayo in Western Ireland are festooned with red and green, the colours of the county's Gaelic football team, which has again made it to the All-Ireland final on Sunday. Mayo has not won since 1951, despite reaching the final eight times since 1989. Can the team now lay to rest Ireland's most infamous curse?
Mayo will converge on Dublin on Sunday, the sons and daughters of a county ravaged by emigration flocking to the city in the hope that their team will taste All-Ireland victory after a famine of 65 years
No other county has such fervour for the country's most popular sport, but none either has known such an abysmal run of luck - a series of misfortunes so shocking that every Irish football-lover knows the story of the curse of Mayo.
It dates back to the day in 1951 when a victorious Mayo team headed home to the west of Ireland from Dublin, after a comfortable win over Meath. The champions travelled with less pomp than today - making the journey to the evening's celebrations in the back of a truck.
Legend has it that when they passed a funeral in the town of Foxford without stopping or paying respects, a curse was cast that Mayo would never again win the All-Ireland championship until all members of that team had died.
True or not, they've not won since. | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 13:24 - Sep 17 with 5517 views | kingshill |
Still 2 of the team alive so I believe?
My mate and his wife from Donegal were over at Croke Park for the final against Mayo a few years ago. They were sat next to a Mayo man who was a paramedic. He said he'd had one of the two in his ambulance a few weeks before and had the devil on his shoulder telling him to let him go to give the team a chance........ | | | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 16:47 - Sep 17 with 5444 views | kingsburyR |
I'm going over for the game....UP MAYO |  |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 17:17 - Sep 17 with 5426 views | goldie7 |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 11:04 - Sep 17 by ted_hendrix |
Wife's family are all from Mayo, here's the info on the curse for those that don't know about it.
The towns and villages of Mayo in Western Ireland are festooned with red and green, the colours of the county's Gaelic football team, which has again made it to the All-Ireland final on Sunday. Mayo has not won since 1951, despite reaching the final eight times since 1989. Can the team now lay to rest Ireland's most infamous curse?
Mayo will converge on Dublin on Sunday, the sons and daughters of a county ravaged by emigration flocking to the city in the hope that their team will taste All-Ireland victory after a famine of 65 years
No other county has such fervour for the country's most popular sport, but none either has known such an abysmal run of luck - a series of misfortunes so shocking that every Irish football-lover knows the story of the curse of Mayo.
It dates back to the day in 1951 when a victorious Mayo team headed home to the west of Ireland from Dublin, after a comfortable win over Meath. The champions travelled with less pomp than today - making the journey to the evening's celebrations in the back of a truck.
Legend has it that when they passed a funeral in the town of Foxford without stopping or paying respects, a curse was cast that Mayo would never again win the All-Ireland championship until all members of that team had died.
True or not, they've not won since. |
Only fair to credit Diarmaid Fleming bbc news for that summary | | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 17:34 - Sep 17 with 5413 views | ted_hendrix |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 17:17 - Sep 17 by goldie7 |
Only fair to credit Diarmaid Fleming bbc news for that summary |
Fair point and I do.
C'mon Mayo. | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 19:14 - Sep 17 with 5379 views | Boston |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 17:34 - Sep 17 by ted_hendrix |
Fair point and I do.
C'mon Mayo. |
Only fair to credit Jimmy for your last name. | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 22:50 - Sep 17 with 5323 views | karl |
Hibs put the Harp crest back on the main stand last season and many said its removal was the start of decades of mis fortune, we won the Scottish Cup for the first time since 1902 at the end of that season so those two chaps know what is required!
Leiths motto is Persevere, never a more appropriate one i'd say?
My support as always with the underdog, without knowing anything about the game |  | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 22:54 - Sep 17 with 5317 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 22:50 - Sep 17 by karl |
Hibs put the Harp crest back on the main stand last season and many said its removal was the start of decades of mis fortune, we won the Scottish Cup for the first time since 1902 at the end of that season so those two chaps know what is required!
Leiths motto is Persevere, never a more appropriate one i'd say?
My support as always with the underdog, without knowing anything about the game |
I prefer Salad Cream so Mayo can get fvcked.
Only joking I haven't got a clue what i'm on about. Good luck both sides. [Post edited 17 Sep 2016 22:55]
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 22:57 - Sep 17 with 5309 views | brad |
COME ON MAYO!!!! | | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 23:01 - Sep 17 with 5304 views | enfieldargh |
The Devils Own, The Connaught Rangers |  |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 23:10 - Sep 17 with 5292 views | Boston |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 22:54 - Sep 17 by BazzaInTheLoft |
I prefer Salad Cream so Mayo can get fvcked.
Only joking I haven't got a clue what i'm on about. Good luck both sides. [Post edited 17 Sep 2016 22:55]
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Haven't got the time to explain, but from what happens around here, its something to do with Cinco de Mayo, the consumption of cerveza's and wildly firing into the air. | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 14:41 - Sep 18 with 5175 views | Boston |
I wonder will the Mayo team be taking a knee during the National Anthem? | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 16:50 - Sep 18 with 5130 views | MrSheen |
All boiling up nicely for another last minute heartbreak. | | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 17:10 - Sep 18 with 5105 views | MrSheen |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 16:50 - Sep 18 by MrSheen |
All boiling up nicely for another last minute heartbreak. |
... next week | | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 17:23 - Sep 18 with 5091 views | ted_hendrix |
Cursed for another week. | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 20:51 - Sep 18 with 4983 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Two weeks lads. Replay is on Oct 1st.
Mayo were boring and mindless in attack in the first half but their backs were superb. After the break the entire team was superb. Epic stuff. bad luck and bad refereeing cost them again. Dublin were haunted. | |
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| The Curse Of Mayo on 09:48 - Sep 19 with 4897 views | robith |
The look on my mate's faces when I told them there was no extra time haha.
Bet Connolly feels bit of a plum taking that shot at the end today.
Also first time watching it on Sky - was it me or was it crazy biased to Dublin?
"Dublin aren't speaking to the media - that's a great move isn't it" "Oh yes, you don't want to give the oppo anything, they're straight into recovery so they'll be fresher"
and my favourite
"I guess we have to give some credit to Mayo I suppose" |  | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 09:54 - Sep 19 with 4893 views | bob566 |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 20:51 - Sep 18 by BrianMcCarthy |
Two weeks lads. Replay is on Oct 1st.
Mayo were boring and mindless in attack in the first half but their backs were superb. After the break the entire team was superb. Epic stuff. bad luck and bad refereeing cost them again. Dublin were haunted. |
that bad refereeing found them 7 minutes Brian which gave them hope. Kind of balanced itself out.
There was one wwe clothesline by a Dublin player where I thought you could have easily have given him red.
Awful decision to blackcard the Dublin player. The whole rte panel said that the mayo player in fact ran into his path and hit the deck. | | | |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 10:41 - Sep 19 with 4869 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| The Curse Of Mayo on 09:54 - Sep 19 by bob566 |
that bad refereeing found them 7 minutes Brian which gave them hope. Kind of balanced itself out.
There was one wwe clothesline by a Dublin player where I thought you could have easily have given him red.
Awful decision to blackcard the Dublin player. The whole rte panel said that the mayo player in fact ran into his path and hit the deck. |
Yep, that was the red card I was talking about.
I agreed with the seven minutes. The ref could be see stopping his watch many times during the second half for injuries or supposed injuries.
I thought McCarthy knew what he was doing with that black card (the ball was nowhere near them) and I'm surprised the RTE panel are bailing him out.
I think that over the next fortnight Mayo will regret not taking their chances in the first half. Will be interesting to see how they react mentally. They may have hope as they clearly have a good manager. Still fancy Dublin to improve more though and take it. | |
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