Ballinrobe

Not even just a small part of it.

Every single part of Moy Davids is going to be gutted with their defeat to Ballinrobe at the weekend.

Yeah, it was a tough one to take because they went into that match with, I won't say great expectations or I won't say high hopes, but they'd have gone in expecting to play an awful lot better than they actually did.

You know, the quarterfinal against Park Keelhoek's Kremlin, for me, was one of the best games of the entire championship.

And the big thing for Ballon Robe is that, well, no more than Moy Davids, but they've got some young players coming through, you know, really, really exciting players, the likes of Keane May and...

Yeah, but it's like you mentioned the junior, like Bereshul and Torma Cady losing.

Like Bereshul, people were saying nobody's going to stop them, but Eastern Gales did because, you know, trying to win a championship, having to win six games, you might get away with losing one group game, but... you look at intermediate, like you would have said, Moy Davids, Ballyhaunus, Kiltane, you know, perhaps Ardenry, perhaps Park, ahead of Ballinrobe at the start of the year.

Ballinrobe are in a final now.

Um, if that's not what's going to-- i-if that's not to their liking or if they don't feel they can settle in there, um, the next nearest Methodist church is in Adare.

There's also a Methodist church in Ballinrobe just a few miles further on.

Mm-hmm.

And, um, and members from Christ Church, uh, some of them have already indicated that they would like to come and join us in Adare, and of course, they're very, very welcome.

We had the quarter-final replay in Park between Kiltay and Eilean Eide.

We had Moy Davids and Ballinrobe and Gary Moore.

That was on Saturday night in the two senior semi-finals.

Castle Power overcoming a disappointing Bravey and we had extra time in Gary Moore versus Bell Mullet, which was an absolute rip-roar of a contest.

Genuinely, it'll be very hard to separate them.

whatever team is going to win it will probably need a bit of luck to go their way on the day I

couldn't get over Martin I drove from I went out the Ballinrobe Road and took a left at the crossroads to go to Gary Moore and I couldn't get over the amount of houses that have Gary Moore flags on it nearly every house you'd nearly be shamed if you didn't have one

that's in Crosboyne I live in Crosboyne just in the village of Crosboyne

Switch Some Diesel is an interesting one.

Um, won at Punchestown in June and back, followed that up, uh, but went on the flat in Ballinrobe for Ross, of course, who won the S- Irish's Arab last weekend.

[laughs]

Uh, but which is familiar.

She was impressive at Ballinrobe, but I thought she was really [laughs] good at Galway, and I think she'll take a fair bit of beating, uh, with Switch-

Did she surprise you at Galway? ...

how good she was

The whole of Moidabits, of course, are there as well.

The whole of Moidabits will be taking on Ballinrobe, of course, a place that we know well, Queevin, we used to love.

going to Ballinrobe during our childhood to watch the DBF League.

And of course, you said it there as well.

I remember going to watch the Mayo team take on the Tupper Curry College of Further Education in the FBD League down in Father O'Hara Park in Charlestown on many equations.

And every club in the country go to Currafin and try and pick off what they do.

Like Santolango, we had Frank Morris down in Ballinrobe trying to pick off what they do around the region.

That's the hallmark.

They don't bring lads in from all over the place.

Vaughan sporting a fabulous pair of new boots.

They must be new ones that he has got stocked in in his football boot shop there in Castlebar in Ballinrobe.

He's going to have a word with the two of them, TJ.

It looks like it's going to be a couple of warnings, a couple of yellow cards, I think, and rightly so.

Um, and Adraguelle, yeah, for Gavin Cromwell and, and, and Keith Donoghue in, in there as well, finished sixth behind Kings Hill in the Galway Blazers on his penultimate run.

He was well beaten last time at Ballinrobe, and I, I thought he'd run better.

It was a three-horse race that Bunting won, so, but it was just too bad a run to be true, so he's gonna have to bounce back from that.

Um, but yeah, Penny Ahand, I, I, you know, it's Willie Mullins, Paul Townend.