Gavin Duffy Meets Billy Joe - Mayo News Football Podcast 2020 E19

08/06/20 • 64 min

Billy Joe Padden's interviewing skills have been a major feature here on the Mayo News football podcast in recent months and in this episode he's back with another special guest. This time, Billy Joe sits down for an in-depth discussion with Mayo GAA and Connacht Rugby star Gavin Duffy. The Ballina native enjoyed a varied sporting career, mainly in rugby where he was capped ten times for Ireland and played for both Connacht and English side Harlequins but also in gaelic football. In fact, Gavin's involvement with Mayo bookended his playing career, as he was a midfielder on the Mayo minor team that reached the All-Ireland final in 1999 and then, in 2014, he earned a surprising call-up from James Horan to the Senior county panel. This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog. The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

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John Maughan meets Billy Joe - Mayo News Football Podcast 2020 E18

The GAA world is inching ever closer to a return to play, As the long wait continues, however, this leaves time for more considered debate and so in this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we're back with another one-on-one discussion. Billy Joe Padden returns to the interviewer's chair for this episode and his guest on this occasion is former county player, two-times Mayo manager and current Offaly bainisteoir John Maughan. Together they talk about John's experience of managing the Faithful County during the Covid-19 crisis and they look back over the Crossmolina man's long career both as a player and manager, focusing on his breakthrough in management with Clare and those heady days on the sideline with his native county. The highs and lows of Gaelic football management are discussed as well as the ways in which the role has changed in recent years. This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog. The Mayo News football podcast now has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.

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Club Championship Update - Mayo News Football Podcast 2020 E20

With no inter-county action this summer due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the club championships within the county are generating more interest than usual. Clubs are also getting the chance to play championship ties in summertime and the two rounds of games contested so far have produced several high-quality contests. In this episode of the Mayo News football podcast we fix our focus firmly on the club action. Host Rob Murphy is joined at Westport by Mike Finnerty, Sports Editor of the Mayo News, where they look back on what was a rip-roaring drawn match between the Covies and Charlestown. Rob also catches up after the game with ex-Charlestown and Mayo star John Casey, who was delighted by his club's defiant stand in a game where they simply had to avoid defeat. From there we switch to the Mayo News offices on the Fair Green in Westport where Mike gets together with his Mayo News colleague Ger Flanagan to review all of the weekend's action. We also hear post-match audio, courtesy of Mayo GAA TV, from Charlestown's Tom Parsons and Padraig O'Hora of Ballina Stephenites. This latest episode of the Mayo News football podcast is now online and is available to listen to on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify and Podomatic. You can also listen to it directly on the Mayo News website as well as on the Mayo GAA Blog. The Mayo News football podcast has its own Twitter presence, @MayoPodcast, so if you're a Twitter user you should follow us there to make sure you get the latest podcast-related updates, including new episodes.