James Laffey

The perfect end to an epic Of the many images that are etched in the memory bank from last Sunday, one predominates above all others. It is of the moments before referee Martin McNally threw in the ball and the two teams were breaking away from their resp... See more

All our dreams come true as Mayo lift Sam Maguire after 75 long years Mayo are All-Ireland Senior Football Champions. For 75 years, generations of reporters with the Western People have waited to write those words and it is a privilege to have this opport... See more

All-Ireland Final countdown: Mayo can write final chapter of epic saga The task facing Mayo is monumental on Sunday. Not since 1965 when Galway completed the second of their three-in-a-row has Kerry lost an All-Ireland Senior Football Final to a team from... See more

Mayo deserve huge credit for their rapid improvement Mayo must surely be the only team in history to win an All-Ireland semi-final by 17 points and yet still go into the final as rank outsiders. But then it has been a strange old championship. No team man... See more

Boys of the new brigade bring pride to the jersey There will be those who will quibble about the standard of the football, the amount of wides that Cork kicked and the obvious shortcomings in the Mayo kickout strategy, but for this writer the overall feel... See more