Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup

Round 2A

Tuesday January 13

TU Dublin v MTU Kerry, TU Dublin, 7pm

UCD v Maynooth University, Belfield, 7.30pm

DCU Dóchas Eireann v UL, DCU Sportsgrounds, 7.30pm

Wednesday January 14

Queens v UCC, Abbottstown, 7.30pm

Round 2B

Tuesday January 13

TUS Midlands v DKIT, TUS Midlands, 7.30pm

Wednesday January 14

St Mary's v ATU Galway, Blanchardstown, 6.15pm

University of Galway v ATU Sligo, Dangan, 8pm

MTU Cork v Ulster University, Belfield, 6.15pm

Plenty of Mayo interest in that DCU vs UL game (up to 14 lads, 12 UL and 2 DCU, potentially involved) on Tuesday evening (streamed free on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9wuVDiRi9Q - everyone will be hoping to avoid the loser of that one in R3), with Wednesday evenings Queens vs UCC the other streamed game (but no Mayo involvement there).

Thanks Willie Joe.
FBD - the competition with no losers really. If I managed a team myself, lost all games and lost in the Plate playoff, I could at least put on my CV: managed county X to an FBD Plate final!

Mayo and Galway meeting two weeks running is not ideal for either County.
But it is what it is.

That’s it, Catcol - everyone a winner!

First Mayo v Galway FBD since 2010. Will Joyce change from on fielding a development panel for this final? If they do Andy Moran doesn't need to go as strong as Sunday.

Galway game on tg4 youtube this Sunday

The youtube link.
https://www.youtube.com/live/W4Eq6Pr_K3E?si=rODW9oKIBkwxTrkx

Thanks MO2023 and Paddy Joe for that heads-up. As it’s on YouTube I’ll embed the live stream here on the blog on Sunday.

Half time
UL 1-11 DCU 0-6
Mayo players have accumulated 9 points of UL’s scores.
Cian McHale 0-4 (one 2p) Irwin 0-2 (one 2p), Dawson (one 2p), Morahan 0-1

McHale outstanding and Jack Melvin really impressive around the middle.

Morahan getting enough of it from Lorcan O’Dell. Dawson and Irwin quiet enough so far bar flashes of class

Great first half from UL. Lead 1-11 to 0-6 at ht.
All Mayo lads featuring, McHale very sharp at ff. Conal Dawson getting through a lot of good work. Good battle between Morahan and Lorcan O Dell, evens.
Fascinating second half, it's not over for sure

Melvin has a point too I think so 0-10 for the Mayo lads

I see on Scorebeo also that Darragh Reilly has got 1-1 for UCD with Niall Hurley scoring 0-5 so far with 53 minutes gone

1-18 to 0-12 for UL. Cónal Dawson great second half and Morahan wins the big battle, Lorcan O Dell substituted. McNamara from Clare suberb in the middle

Great second half from all the Mayo boys. Hurley tapped another one over for UCD to finish with 0–6

Does anyone know if Melvin is involved with Mayo ? Very impressed with him.

If Galway or Roscommon had the amount of players playing (and playing well) we would be talking enviously.
The future is bright !

@Clubman51: He featured in one of the 'development' friendlies (I think Longford, but might have been the early Galway one), so in or around the setup and one they'll be keeping an eye on for sure.

Without getting carried away there are at least 5 accurate forwards to add to conroy and o donohue. I know it's very early and most might not make the grade or could take a number of years but it definitely gives hope and gets the juices flowing. It might be enough to get crowds out again. Anyone who thinks I'm raving...save your thumb .

Agree No Doubt

No harm for a bit or positivity

Yes @TsuDhoNim I thought I saw his name somewhere. You would assume Boyler would have a good handle on him being from Davitts.

I remember seeing Ronan Clarkes name on a development team. He was a super Minor, I know he had a couple of big injuries.

Would love to see him back involved if he was fit and available.

The future is looking bright

Tone it down Rusty Bridges! That kind of lads’ mag terminology went out with the flood.

For me. Things are definitely looking up. 6 two pointers on Sunday and all the Mayo lads doing well for UL tonight. A few more scored by our players in the game this evening. People can say it was a weak Roscommon team, but it proves the lads have the ability to score. I doubt anyone would say DCU were weak. Boyler said on the podcast, that you must practice that and it looks like we are.

DCU/UL was a great watch for Mayo supporters. The commentator seemed quite shocked that DCU didn't swat UL aside. As others have said McHale, Melvin, Dawson and Morahan were excellent for UL and I thought Darragh Joyce put in a great shift for the losers.
Scorebeo have the FBD final as being on TG4 not YouTube. Maybe a typo?

JoeG ,The club hurling and football finals will be on the main Tg4 channel

Does anyone know whether Finbar McLaughlin got any game time with DCU? While I didn’t see the game, in previous matches I was really encouraged by Seán Morahan’s performances for UL — it sounds like he kept up his form last night.

Don’t think he came on and neither did Hugh O Loughlin or Diarmuid Coggins for UL. Anyone know if O Loughlin is injured as haven’t seen him for Mayo either.

Agree all mayo lads put in big shifts last night but UL dominated midfield , ur man mcnamara from clare some footballer , we need to see these mayo forwards when UL are not so dominant in MF .

Still rising tide lifts all boats

I was actually borrowing a line from Louis Van Gaal when he was United manager Wille Joe :) but can see now it might have been perceived!

Fair enough, Rusty Bridges - I wasn’t aware of that quote but I guess his excuse could be that English isn’t his first language!

@Moy2Pointer: Finbar came on with 19 minutes left, but didn't look 100%, or anything close to it. Never got over half pace and never grabbed the game the way he can. Hopefully the extra week to R3 can help him push on, he was DCU's x-factor last year in their win up until his injury.

No word on injuries for O'Loughlin or McGreal for UL, but both were outstanding for UL in their league winning campaign and both help strengthen them so you'd expect both to be back in if/when they're available.

McLoughlin was injured for Westport’s under 21 campaign. The same as Eoghan, seems to be prone to injury. Maybe something to do with that explosive speed.

Hopefully back to play some part for DCU and Mayo.

As an aside, the "commentator" for the UL match was brutal; he chatted away about everything except the action, didn't/couldn't recognise players, the rules themselves seemed a bit of a mystery, as were substitutions. Have made that gripe, it was great to have the stream!
BTW, I think Coggins came on?

That commentator was Jerome Quinn who used to be the GAA correspondent for BBC, or was it UTV?

As with the camera quality it was hard to recognize players but as you say it was great to get as much as we did.

A surprisingly heavy defeat for Rice College against Jarlath's takes them out of Senior A, but QF wins for Balla & Gortnor Abbey keeps plenty of Mayo interest heading into the PPS A, B & C Semi-Finals.

Wednesday 28th Jan 2026
- PPS Senior A Football Championship 2025/26- Knockout Semi-Finals

Winner of Quarter Final 2 (CBS Roscommon vs Colaiste Bhaile Chlair) vs St. Muredach's College
Venue: TBC, 12:30

St. Gerald's DLS College vs St. Jarlath's College Tuam
Venue: TBC, 12:30

- PPS Senior B Football Championship 2025/26- Knockout Semi-Finals

Ballyhaunis Community School vs St. Joseph's College Galway
Venue: Ballyhaunis Community School, 12:30

St. Attractas Community School Tubbercurry vs St. Nathy's College Ballaghaderreen
Venue: St. Attractas Community School Tubbercurry, 12:30

- PPS Senior C Football Championsip- Knockout Semi-Finals

Gortnor Abbey Crossmolina vs Colaiste Einde Galway City
Venue: Gortnor Abbey Crossmolina, 12:30

Holy Rosary College Mountbellew vs Balla Secondary School
Venue: Holy Rosary College Mountbellew, 12:30

(Still Mayo interest in D & E but a round or more behind Semi-Finals yet)

I would say the lads that were playing sigerson this week will get a run out on Sunday and some lads need game time. I think there will be a lot of changes so this is the squad ive gone with:

Jack Livingstone
Jack Coyne
David McBrien
John McMonagle
Sean Morahan
Sam Callinan
Fenton Kelly
Nathan Moran
Jack Carney
Conal Dawson
Adam Barrett
Kobe McDonald
Cian McHale
James Carr
Niall Hurley

Subs:
Adrian Phillips,
Eoin McGreal
Rory Brickendon
Michael Plunkett
Oisin Jordan
Dylan Thornton
Liam Donoghue
Frank Irwin
Paul Towey
Tom Lydon
Kuba Callaghan

Still yet to play this year:
Diarmuid O'connor
Darren McHale
Cillian O'Connor
Matthew Ruane
Donnacha McHugh
Fergal Boland
Darragh Reilly
Hugh O'Loughlin
Jack Melvin
Finbar Mcgloughlin
Darragh Joyce

Are Conor Loftus and Eoghan Mcgloughlin on the panel this year does anyone know?

All the Colleges semifinals will be at neutral venues I'd imagine. Most will probably be played at the COE. Gortnor Abbey with 4 current Mayo Under 20's in their ranks look like a sure thing. Ballyhaunis have a nice team, but will be up against an improving St. Joseph's team. Hard to call the A semifinals, but Gerald's will definitely need to have some of their more experienced players back to challenge Jarlath's. They have been shorthanded throughout the group stages.

That is an exciting team Mayo4698, only change id like to see McBrien at 6 and Dawson at wingback.
Carr, Mchale and Hurley is class , id like to see the two Mchales in team but maybe that's being greedy.

You just get feeling forwards are thriving in this environment and Andy is big part of it.
Nathan Moran and Jack Carney together are big men and should rule the air .
Id like to see Liam Donoghue get a start

It's all really postive and with few lads coming back, we will strengthen the defence, its all good do hopefully good start to league and everyone get behind the lads
Loftus would be a massive addition but remember its not been that long since tragedy so probably not see him before Paddy day .

@The west is best: The venues were all straight from https://connachtgaa.ie/pps/pps-fixtures-results/ at the time, but they seem to have overwritten the ones mentioned above with TBC now so you're probably spot on there. Nothing visible in the rules to dictate who'd have that home advantage or why, so neutral/COE makes way more sense.

Good results for ATUG (Conor Reid kicking a pair of 2s the Mayo highlight on the night) and UG (Tom O'Flaherty kicking 0-3 and putting in a solid shift) helps bump the Mayo interest heading into R3 of the Sigerson.

Hearing from a good source that Trump is planning to annex Roscommon along with Greenland.

What ramifications could this have on the connacht championship?

No way is he getting Ballaghaderreen, Paddyjoe!

Haha PaddyJoe if there was oil in Roscommon, he'd have a go at it anyways! :)

He is an absolute charlatan..it reminds me of the American president in Superman 1. General Zod came from Krypton to take over the world. And where did he go? The White House of course! And the American President handed over control just because he could. He thinks he is the most powerful man on Earth.

Any imbecile who voted for him deserves whatever might come to pass.

He can have Greenland, but I draw the line at Roscommon (especially Ballaghadereen)

Wouldn't stand in his way if he wanted Cloonfad though....they used to throw insults and missiles at us as we passed through celebrating our semi wins right through the teens..... he'd hand it back within the week anyway.

Steady on, 2 hops, my late mother was from Cloonfad so he’s not getting his paws on that either!

Just after hearing that Trump wants to take over The Dome. John Prenty , you better look out....

Oops... apologies WJ.... 😄

Is Conor Reid still in the panel? He looked very promising when he first appeared.

@MARTIN DONNELLAN: Hasn't been one of the 63 to be involved across the early games against Galway/Longford/Meath/Offaly/FBD or mentioned across any of the media, with the word around suggesting he's unlikely to be part of the panel at the moment.

Mayo guaranteed a couple more representatives reaching the QF stage of the Sigerson with DCU (Joyce & McLaughlin) travelling to Galway to face ATU Galway (Collins, Reid, Lavelle, Dolan & Crean) in R3.

UG (O'Flaherty, MacMonagle, Meaney & D Hurley) facing a home battle against a solid MTU Kerry side.

Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup Round Three

Tuesday January 20
Maynooth University v DKIT, Maynooth, TBC
University of Galway v MTU Kerry, Dangan, TBC

Wednesday January 21
Ulster University v Queen's University, Jordanstown, TBC
ATU Galway v DCU Dóchas Eireann, Liam Mellows, TBC

(UL, UCD, TUD & UCC waiting in the QFs for the winners)

Is Davitt Neary still on the panel?

I haven’t heard anything or seen him on any team sheet?

Would anyone on here know if Clifford is only man to win 3 footballer of the year awards? I know t.giles won 2...96 and 99, maybe jacko ?

David Neary I understand is unavailable this year for personal reasons.

Just a thought on the upcoming league. With the new format in championship i reckon we need to avoid relegation big time. Provincial finalists and next 8 best league positions make up the 16 teams for Sam .fair enough relegation to division 2 would still get into the 16 if beaten by roscommon in semi final but imagine the following year and the real possibility of finishing near the bottom of division 2 and then it's real squeaky bum time regarding making top 16 for 2027..am I right or again just overthinking. Any thoughts?

@Driveitlong&hard: No.

@Winston: Jack O'Shea had 4 of the previous Texaco awards, so depends how you view the changing of the names if that's considered equal. David's 3 being the modern record since '95 and the current iteration of the award.

Solid performance from Dara Neary for UL Freshers last night, getting himself into the conversation for POTM (though Kirby a clear winner of that).

Had a pretty rough start (a mix up around a mark/free leading to a MTUC goal) so showed great character and composure to play himself into it the way he did. Kicked 3, off left and right, when the game was tight and UL really missing their usual heavy scorers inside and sprayed the ball around well pulling strings for his side.

New pod up on Patreon, Mike chatting with Aidan Kilcoyne and Mark Ronaldson about FBD campaigns they've been involved in.

@yahoo.com TsuDhoNim. Good update on Neary. Freshers comp the right level for him and plenty of competition at UL.

Gortnor Abbey into Connacht Semi final thanks to Kobe in senior Connacht senior C .

Dara,not Davitt @ontheditch.

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Thanks 2 hops for correction. I was thinking of Davitt. Sorry about that. Good lads appear to be coming in pairs. Dara Dawson progressing in same direction as Cónal. All good for Mayo. Thankfully Sigerson and Freshers comp are giving lads, down the pecking order, competitive football.

We seem to have announced the below in X; which apparently down globally.

X (Twitter)

MayoGAA
Mayo GAA has today confirmed the appointment of Collins McNicholas to manage and oversee the recruitment process for the new Chief Executive Officer of Mayo GAA. ↪️ mayogaa.com/2026/01/16/mayo-gaa-ceo-recruitment-process #mayogaa #gaa

https://mayogaa.com/2026/01/16/mayo-gaa-ceo-recruitment-process/

Imagine being very experimental this weekend, 3 or 4 experienced players like Coen, Carney mixed with new recruits given chance to nail squad spot.

I'd have thought a recruitment consultant would have been identified as a requirement before the plan to appoint a CEO was announced.

There was talk of potentially having someone announced by now (even if they had to work out their notice for a few months), but instead it seems like the process hasn't really started yet.

Hopefully not a sign of things to come...

1. Jack Livingstone – Breaffy
2. Liam Golden – Ballina Stephenites
3. Stephen Coen – Hollymount/Carramore
4. Sam Callinan – Ballina Stephenites
5. Fenton Kelly – Davitts
6. John MacMonagle (C) – Castlebar Mitchels
7. Cathal Keaveney – Parke/Keelogues/Crimlin
8. Darragh Joyce – Claremorris
9. Dylan Thornton – Ballina Stephenites
10. Diarmuid Duffy – Ballinrobe
11. Jack Carney – Kilmeena
12. Nathan Moran – Hollymount/Carramore
13. Cian McHale – Moy Davitts
14. Kuba Callagahan – Ballaghaderreen
15. Niall Hurley – Claremorris

16. David Dolan – Balla
17. Eoin McGreal – Garrymore
18. Colm Lynch – Parke/Keelogues/Crimlin
19. Luke Jordan – Ballina Stephenites
20. Liam Donoghue – Kiltane
21. Oisin Jordan – Balla
22. Frank Irwin – Ballina Stephenites
23. Adam Barrett – Kilmaine
24. Paul Towey – Charlestown
25. Tom Lydon – The Neale
26. Fergal Boland – Aghamore

https://mayogaa.com/2026/01/16/mayo-senior-football-team-v-galway-jan-2026/

Glad to see Andy is resting guys.
I don't mind what the result for this one is. So long as we give a good showing . Salthill is the important one.

Tommyk - please don't start up that nonsense again this year. I'm not in the market for giving lifts on match days, I've more than enough to be doing already.

Really exciting team. Would love to know the thinking behind McMonagle as captain so early in his career? Is it his full debut for Mayo seniors? Can’t recall him starting before. Being a fan of Niall Hurley I hope he gets a few outings this year. Any sign of Ronan Clarke in the setup

On the recruitment consultant selection for the CEO role, I hear the question on why now and why this was decided sooner. From a personal perspective I’ve worked in hiring people for senior level roles and the use of agencies can be quite expensive. Some agencies can seek 20-30% of a salary for a finders fee, sometimes more. If we anticipate a salary of 100,000k plus, then that’s a significant agency fee that will be incurred. So they would not have made the decision lightly. Perhaps they hoped the applicant would come directly but evidently not the case. I’d rather they go down this route with Collins McNicholas than make a rash selection

Clare me thinks the rested lads be playing elsewhere....

@Gizmobobs

Well good to but at least Pj wont know all our secrets this weekend haha

Any idea where the challenge is?

Playing clare

No doubt ?. I guessed it was a challenge .

Playing Clare, Clare! As in,not you Clare but the Banner County Clare. In Ballinrobe where my sources tell me we’ve just won by 0-19 to 2-8.

Ah ok my bad bit of confusion there sorry haha good for the win

Mayo off playing a challenge with more established players v Clare and Galway did similar in a recent challenge v Dublin which they apparently lost to a late Con Callaghan goal

Both playing mainly fringe players in the FBD final on Sunday the same will happen to the Connacht Senior championship once that looses all connection to the All-Ireland series.