Articles in the clontibret Category

Soon the verdant greens and lush fairways of Concra Wood will be the setting for the 2016 Northern Standard Under 18 Boys Golf Championship. The increasingly prestigious competition which pits the luminous skills of the major minor players from South Ulster against one another has cemented a place for itself in the golfing calendar and this year’s fare is expected to attract a record entry when the runners and riders line up on July 19th next at the resplendent Concra. The brainchild of a think-tank from Rossmore Golf Club, the Northern ...

Clontibret 2-09 Magheracloone 0-11 By JOHN GRAHAM REIGNING champions Clontibret made a winning start to the defence of their senior football championship title when they got over the challenge of Magheracloone by four points but it was a contest that was in the balance until the late stages. It was a game too that saw Conor McManus pick up an ankle injury after just ten minutes and while he did carry on until half time he was in some trouble and was substituted for the second half but did return to the action later. It ...

Ulster Camogie Junior Club Championship Final Clontibret     1-12 Laragh      2-04 By MARETTA SHERRY On a Sunday to remember for Clontibret, their camogs defeated Laragh of Cavan to retain the Ulster Junior Club Championship title in Moy last Sunday. Both clubs had reached this final on merit: Clontibret disposing of Kilcoo and Carrickmore quite comfortably, with Laragh knocking out Glenullion (Derry) and last year’s beaten finalists, Antrim’s Loughgiel. A blustery gale made conditions difficult but it was Clontibret’s physical power and skill that came to the fore, as they who ...

Clontibret stole the headlines on the double last week as the Ulster Club championships moved up a gear for Monaghan’s representatives. by COLM SHALVEY Last Sunday will live long in the memory of Clontibret fans, after two of their senior teams won Ulster Club Championship games. The dust had barely settled on Clontibret’s Monaghan Senior Football Championship win, but they took another major step forward when they once again stunned a fancied team and the bookies. Clontibret had been outsiders in the county final against Scotstown and it was a similar story in the ...

Last weekend, Pairc Grattan managed to morph into a conspiracy theorist’s dreamscape. 10-10-’10. 1-10 to 1-10. What will the deities conjure up for the replay this coming Sunday? Clontibret and Magheracloone’s fabled resourcefulness saw both of them bend but not break over the course of a stamina-sapping tussle. This weekend, something has to give in what we can confidently predict will be another blood and thunder clash. As most pundits predicted, a familiar tale unfolded last weekend in Inniskeen’s temple of a ground. Stalemate ruled the roost. “Before the game I felt that a draw ...