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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 ...
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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 ...
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MAGHERACLOONE 2-10 DONAGHMOYNE 1-10 BY JOHN GRAHAM MAGHERACLOONE who were defeated in the final of the minor football league a couple of weeks back made ample amends on Sunday afternoon last when they won the Maguire International sponsored minor football championship division 2 title, the game played as the curtain raiser to the intermediate championship final. In the early stages though it didn’t look all that promising for the Mitchells as it was Donaghmoyne who made the early running and had 1-3 on the board before Magheracloone opened their account. Once they got motoring ...
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MAGHERACLOONE 2-11 AGHABOG 1-10 By BRENDA MCANESPIE MAGHERACLOONE had to work their socks off before securing the IFC title on a 2-11 to 1-10 scoreline after a tremendous battle with a game Aghabog crew. This was a decider that was always going to be a close contest and one in which the destination of the spoils remained unclear right to the end of the game with both teams battling it out to return to senior championship ranks for 2013. After only one minute of play Magheracloone recorded the first point from Niamh Kindlon, a player who was ...
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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 ...