Articles in the Scotstown Category

Scotstown are county champions for the second time in three years after a strong start led them to victory over Monaghan Harps at St Tiarnach’s Park, Clones, last Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan Harps struck first in the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship Final through the impressive Shane Smyth, but by the end of the first quarter, Scotstown had taken charge with two goals. The first was an opportunistic finish by Orin Heaphey, who justified his starting position by scoring 1-2, after a Darren Hughes pass spilled loose, before Man ...

Scotstown 2-12 Monaghan Harps 0-09 By JOHN GRAHAM THERE was to be no fairytale ending to Monaghan Harps efforts to bridge the 92 years gap since they last won the Monaghan senior football championship as a more composed and experienced Scotstown regained the Monaghan senior football championship title that they last held in 2013. Ultimately Scotstown possessed too much power and versatility and were able to contain the Harps threat although had they capitalised on a few good chances, one or two in particular for goals at vital times, the course of this game ...

Irish Water could face legal action from householders in the Scotstown and Ballinode areas who have been put to considerable expense replacing domestic appliances because of the hardness of their water supply, Sinn Féin councillor Cathy Bennett told Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Colr Bennett successfully proposed, with seconding from her party colleague Pat Treanor, that the Council write to Irish Water asking them to address the hard water situation in the village areas concerned. She argued that a solution to the problem was readily available to the new national utility, ...

Scotstown 1-14 Castleblayney 1-08 BY JOHN GRAHAM SCOTSTOWN are back in the final of the Monaghan Senior Football Championship for the third year in a row when they just had that extra dimension to their game in this fairly low-key and at times scrappy semi final that was played in good conditions in Clontibret on Saturday evening last. Scotstown had matters very much their own way in the first half as they got off to a flying start with Castleblayney not registering their first point until the 14th minute, by which stage Scotstown ...

Blackhill             3-12 Scotstown             2-09 By JOHN GRAHAM BLACKHILL are through to their third Universal Graphics Junior Football Championship Final in a row when they proved too strong for a less than full strength Scotstown side who had lost a number of players to the senior championship team, in this low-key and at times scrappy affair that was played in greasy conditions in O’Neill Park, Clontibret, on Sunday afternoon last. The prevailing conditions did leave handling and footwork difficult and led to mistakes ...

Scotstown 1-13 Truagh 0-09 By JOHN GRAHAM A stronger, more versatile Scotstown moved through to the next round of the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship when they proved that little bit too adept in most departments for Truagh in this fairly low-key and at times scrappy encounter that was played in Emyvale on Sunday evening last. Keen and competitive all through this Scotstown performance was underpinned with the work of the Hughes brothers, Darren and Kieran, the latter proving the linchpin of this Scotstown performance while the accuracy of Conor McCarthy and Shane Carey ...

Asked by The Northern Standard this week to sum up her experience as Monaghan’s representative in the recent Rose of Tralee Festival, Scotstown’s Michelle Caulfield plucked the words “life-changing, surreal, unforgettable” from the lexicon. The teacher listed as her highlights the reunion with all her Rose “sisters” in Dublin at the beginning of the tour that preceded the Tralee event itself; the opportunity to spend time with family and friends at the Tralee ‘ pub twinning’, and the Saturday night parade in the host town, which she described as “one of ...

Scotstown  1-14 Inniskeen 0-09 By JOHN GRAHAM SCOTSTOWN, who would be among the favourites for this year’s Greenfield Foods senior football championship title negotiated this opening round challenge by Inniskeen successfully when the sides met in St Mary’s Park, Castleblayney, on Saturday evening last. While eight points separated the sides at the finish that should not be taken as suggesting that this was a one-way contest as Inniskeen did pose quite a few questions for Scotstown but overall the blues had the greater strength in depth and that told in the closing stages. Scotstown were ...

Monaghan Rose Michelle Caulfield did the county proud when she took to the stage in the Dome in Tralee on Monday evening as part of the Rose of Tralee International Festival. The primary school teacher from Scotstown, who was the twelfth Rose to appear on the night, is pictured during her interview with host Dáithí Ó Sé. Michelle also entertained the audience with a poem entitled ‘Friendship is a Gift.’ Photo by Domnick Walsh / Eye Focus LTD.