Articles in the Aghabog Category

PETER HUGHES Wandering minstrel boys have rarely enjoyed such a homecoming. Outside there was nowhere that the wind’s chill fingers wouldn’t find you with their unpleasantly invasive tickle. Inside, however, there was a radiating heat like that of a turf-stacked hearth, and at its centre glowed a smiling Michael Lawson, newly crowned winner of The Voice of Ireland title, really relaxing, perhaps, for the first time since he had stepped triumphantly off that Helix stage on Sunday evening, now basking in the Aghabog adulation. All the parish, it seemed, had somehow managed to inveigle ...

By Cianna McNally “Living the dream” is how Monaghan’s Voice of Ireland Michael Lawson summed up the experience of winning the RTÉ show last weekend. Speaking to The Northern Standard on Tuesday, 19-year-old Newbliss native Michael told how it was “an absolute shock” to have won the show but it was also amazing and “a dream come true.” He added that while he was not nervous when performing on stage, it was “nervewracking” when it came down to the final four and people were being eliminated one by one. A huge homecoming was organised ...

By John Graham John GrahamArd Stiurthoir Cumann Luthchleas Gael Paraic Duffy described Aghabog club as “one of the best clubs in Ireland” in his address to the guests at their 125 Banquet in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan on Saturday night last. Following a sumptuous meal and words of welcome from Club Chairman Tony McGorman, Paraic Duffy, in getting the formalities under way, spoke of the spirit that there is in the club and the dedication they have shown in building a club that is a prime example of what a GAA Club ...

CLONES 1-10 AGHABOG 1-03 BY COLM SHALVEY CLONES took full advantage of their second chance with a seven-point win over Aghabog in the Eurotech Junior Football League Final Replay at Scotstown last Sunday. Clones had been relieved to escape with a draw seven days earlier, but they upped their game to run out fairly comfortable winners against an Aghabog side who played two-thirds of the match with 14 men. Clones had suffered a string of semi-final and final defeats since being relegated to junior in 2006, including the ...

AGHABOG 1-09 CLONES 1-09 BY JOHN GRAHAM IT WAS billed as one that had the potential to be a close encounter and that is exactly how it worked out as there was nothing to separate the sides at the end of this absorbing Junior Football League Final that was played in a good spirit in Scotstown on Sunday afternoon last. Overall a draw was probably a fair enough result as both sides enjoyed periods of dominance and both had also squandered chances, but overall Aghabog will have slightly more reason to be disappointed as they looked ...

AGHABOG V CLONES JOHN GRAHAM Reports It is a limited yet a very attractive programme of games in the county this weekend with the final of the junior football league, the replay of the minor football championship division 3 final as well as the semi finals of the intermediate and senior football leagues. Both of Sunday’s Junior Football League finalists suffered early reverses in the junior football championship, Clones defeated in their first outing by Oram back on June 2nd and Aghabog defeated by Eire Og back on June 10th. Clones recovered though ...

Pictured are the representatives of Aghabog Foroige Club who emerged as champions when they flew the flag for Co Monaghan in the All-Ireland finals of the Foroige’s Got Talent event at Hartstown in Blanchardstown on May 28 last. The club’s drama group with their sketch called the The Pig were very well received, but it was the Aghabog Irish dancing troupe that brought the house down!