Articles in the GAA Category

It’s May, the longer evenings are here, the weather is (finally) getting better, which can only mean one thing: championship football is just around the corner. by COLM SHALVEY All codes of county teams are expected to be represented at the pre-championship open night in Cloghan tomorrow night (Friday) from 7.30 to 9.30pm. The silverware won by Monaghan sides so far this year; namely the National Football League Division Three, the Ulster Minor Football League and the Ulster Minor Hurling League Division Two will be on display. There will also be ...

Last Saturday was a very memorable day for Monaghan gaelic football, with their senior and minor footballers both taking silverware in a rare double. by COLM SHALVEY Last Saturday was a memorable day for Monaghan football, with the senior and minor footballers both taking silverware in a rare double. Eight years after winning their last trophy, Monaghan won a thrilling Allianz National Football League Division Three Final against Meath. It was also the county’s first win at Croke Park since that famous NFL Division Two decider, also against Meath, back in ...

Ahead of their Ulster SFC clash with Antrim on June 9th, Monaghan’s morale and confidence received a timely filip last Saturday with their NFL Division Three Final triumph over Meath. by Kevin Carney It’s always sweet to win a big game but if a player is really honest, doing well on an individual basis simultaneously makes the collective triumph all the sweeter. Latton tyro Owen Duffy was man-of-the-match at Croke Park last weekend so it’s not difficult to imagine the taste in his mouth as club mate and county captain Owen Lennon ...

Monaghan 2-16 Meath 3-08 BY COLM SHALVEY MONAGHAN and Meath served up a thrilling climax to the Allianz football league division 3 when the sides met in Croke Park on Saturday evening last in a game that was in the balance right to the very finish before Monaghan clinched it with a late goal and a point to take their first league silverware since 2005. It was a deserved victory for Monaghan as they had dominated the game for lengthy periods but Meath pushed the issue to the very limit and there was ...

A late switch to a Subaru WRC saw local aces, Sam Moffett/James O’Reilly take a splendid victory in the Hillgrove Hotel Monaghan Rally, the second round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship. On Friday, Moffett was without a car due to problems with his usual Mitsubishi, keen not to miss his local event, he decided to hire the McKinstry Motorsport S14 Subaru WRC. On what was his debut in a World Rally Car, the Monaghan ace finished a minute and two tenths of a second ahead of fellow Monaghan crew, ...

BY John Graham Commentary With both sides already promoted to division 2 of the Allianz Football League for next season it would be easy to look at Saturday’s division 3 final as being just about the small piece of silverware on offer but that would be far from the reality of the situation. The silver ware certainly would be important as there is not that much silverware on offer in any given season so that in itself will be motivation. However this game on Saturday is about more than that, in that it ...

Truagh 2-19 Drumhowan 0-02 BY KEVIN CARNEY TRUAGH’S rehabilitation in the IFL looks like being a short and sweet one on the evidence of this facile win over a desperately poor Drumhowan side on Saturday evening last. In engineering their third win from as many outings in this year’s league, the north county crew displayed a collective spirit and an individual cutting edge that augurs well for their chances of making it back to senior ranks in double-quick time. The statistic that the winners sported 11 different scorers over the hour and their incisiveness in ...

Clontibret 012 Castleblayney 0-14 BY COLM SHALVEY CASTLEBLAYNEY got their first points of this year’s SFL with a hard-earned win away to Clontibret last Sunday. The teams were level five times in an entertaining first half and they were never separated by more than four points, but Blayney’s greater need for league points told in their favour. Blayney, who were again well short of full-strength, had good performances from Martin McElroy, Ciarán Hanratty, Dermot Malone and Mark Treanor, while Clontibret, who were still without Dessie Mone and Paul McGuigan, were over-reliant on Conor McManus, who ...

All roads lead to Monaghan this coming weekend as Monaghan Motor Club host their biggest sporting event of the calendar. With a bumper entry and no stone left unturned by the organisers this event is sure to live up to its billing as one of the top stages events of the rally season. A full entry of 141 cars will cross the start ramp at 9.20am Sunday morning to tackle the three stages which cover the general Northeast area of Monaghan, circling Castleshane, Glaslough, Emyvale and Tydavnet and back towards Monaghan ...

Monaghan are counting down the days to what should be a cracking NFL Final on April 27th. by COLM SHALVEY The countdown is now T minus nine days until Monaghan renew acquaintances with Meath in the Allianz National Football League Division Three Final at Croke Park. Monaghan’s last silverware, of course, came against the same opposition at the same venue in the final of the old NFL Division Two back in 2005, so the county’s supporters will be hopeful that is a good omen ahead of Saturday week’s clash. This game ...