Articles in the GAA Category

BY KEVIN CARNEY Somehow or other, we Irish seem to be all too reluctant to recognise prophets in our midst. In this regard, the way long-time community activist Mackie Rooney was afforded a ‘This is Your Life’ reception last Saturday evening in the Complex in Scotstown speaks volumes for the partiality of the parishioners of Tydavnet. The clarion call last weekend among the organisers and well-wishers was clearly one of ‘better to hand someone a bouquet of flowers when they’re alive than wait to throw them on their grave.’ Mind you, those privvy to ...

Ballybay 2-10 Castleblayney 1-08 BY COLM SHALVEY GOALS by Hugh Malone and Christopher McGuinness helped Ballybay pick up their second SFL win at home to Castleblayney last Sunday. Ballybay led from the first minute right through to the end and rarely looked troubled, although Blayney could have been closer but for poor finishing which saw them kick nine wides. Christopher McGuinness continued his good form for Ballybay, who also had Paul Finlay, Ryan and Drew Wylie and Malone to the fore. Blayney had Ciarán Hughes and Ciarán Hanratty available after lengthy injury absences, but they ...

MONAGHAN V TYRONE Kingspan Breffni, 2-00pm, Saturday It is often said that a week is a long time in politics and based on that a year is a long time in sport and the past year has seen a dramatic downturn in the fortunes of the Monaghan senior hurling team. This time last year Monaghan were preparing for the division 3 A final against Fingal when they finished top of division 3A having been undefeated in all of their games up until that date. A quick fast forward to this week ...

Monaghan ensured that their stay in Division Three of the Allianz NFL was a short one when they eased to victory against Antrim to finish top of the table. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan ensured that their stay in Division Three of the Allianz National Football League was a short one when they eased to victory against Antrim in Clones last Sunday to finish top of the group. After letting the opportunity to secure promotion slip away in Roscommon in round six, Monaghan were in no mind to miss their second ...

Monaghan 7-10 Cavan 3-12 BY JOHN GRAHAM THE predatory instincts and clinical finishing of Tony Forde and Donal Meegan were central planks of this victory by a rampant Monaghan that saw them put Ulster minor hurling league division 2 titles back-to-back at the expense of Cavan in Kingspan Breffni Park, (3G pitch), on Friday evening last. This was a re-run of last year’s final which Monaghan also won and in completing back to back successes they played some delightful hurling that the home side simply could not match. While the Forde/Meegan axis up front did ...

Ask a team-manager what he makes of National League results and you’re almost guaranteed to be reminded of how politicians react to being quizzed about the findings of the latest opinion polls. If a certain opinion poll shows the politician or his party in a favourable light, you can take it there’ll be no chance that the validity or merit of the poll will be questioned. However, should the poll results show that the politican or party’s rating has slipped and the abyss may not be too far away, just listen and ...

Tyrone 3-12 Monaghan 3-07 A SHARPER, hungrier Tyrone inflicted a first defeat on Monaghan in this year’s Ulster minor hurling league division 2 when the sides met at Garvaghey on Wednesday evening last. Played in bitterly cold conditions with snow falling practically throughout this was as much a contest of endurance as anything else with the home side adapting that much better to the prevailing conditions which was a major feature in the eventual outcome. With Mickey Cunningham dominating in midfield for the home side they were only headed once in the entire contest ...

Fermanagh 1-09 Monaghan 0-10 BY JOHN GRAHAM DESPITE staging a strong final quarter rally during which they registered the final four scores of this match, Monaghan just failed to get over the line against a Fermanagh team that was forced to play the final 25 minutes with 14 players after the second yellow card dismissal of Karl Kehoe some 11 minutes into the second-half. At that stage Fermanagh were leading by six points but they were only to register one further score for the remainder of the game as Monaghan went all out for ...