Articles in the GAA Category

BY JOHN GRAHAM It would be easy in analysing this game to look at just the small things that influenced the overall outcome but that would be to do a disservice to two very evenly matched teams who both put in sterling performances. Overall Doohamlet will rue those late missed chances and a few earlier in the game as well as the little lapse that allowed Cookstown Fr Rocks in for that early goal, but it would be churlish to just talk about those in isolation as Doohamlet showed just ...

BY KEVIN CARNEY THE process of recruiting a new county minor football team manager for the coming year(s) is set to be ratcheted up next week when a number of interviews for the position are set to take place. With the date for nominations for the post already closed, just one name, Frank Brady has been put forward by the clubs of the county. Galway native Brady served as manager of the county senior hurling panel several seasons ago and last year acted as county minor hurling manager. Having guided Monaghan to the 2012 ...

BY COLM SHALVEY The Annual Northern Standard/ Monaghan GAA Awards night will take place on Saturday, January 19, 2013 in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan town. The special guest is double All-Ireland hurling medal-winner Michael Duignan The former Offaly star is also well known as a popular hurling commentator and pundit on the Sunday Game. Last year, he published his autobiography Life, Death and Hurling in which he lays bare the events, both personal and professional, which have gone into shaping him over the years. The awards night, sponsored by The Northern Standard, is ...

Donaghmoyne carry Monaghan’s hopes for All Ireland club glory this weekend when both their A and B teams play in the All Ireland semi finals. First up is the B team who play Boherbue ( Cork ) on Saturday. Having a second team at senior level is an acheivement on its own, but to win a county title and then go on to win an Ulster title is a fantastic achievement. They have the ability to go further and with home advantage, don’t rule out the possibility of this team going all ...

Two out of three ain’t bad … Monaghan honour was well upheld on the weekend’s provincial stage. by COLM SHALVEY Doohamlet and Drumhowan will fly the Monaghan flag in the Ulster club championship semi-finals after Ballybay’s first provincial SFC campaign in 25 years came to an early exit. Ballybay needed everything stacked in their favour if they were to get past a handy Kilcoo outfit, who defeated St. Eunan’s of Letterkenny in their last Ulster club appearance three years ago. It didn’t work out that way, however, as this game in Clones proved ...

BY COLM SHALVEY Two Monaghan youngsters enjoyed brilliant success at the recent World Handball Championships at CityWest in Dublin. The Monaghan Harps Handball Club players, who are fifth-class pupils in St. Mary’s Boys’ School, Monaghan, both took home Under-11 medals from the high-class competition, which featured handballers from over 30 countries. Eoghan McGinnity won Gold in the Boys’ Doubles 40×20 along with playing partner Lorcan McBride from Tyrone and Silver in the One-Wall Doubles. Jakub Szkup won Silver in the 40×20 Singles. There were tough games throughout and both boys had to fight their ...

CLONES 1-10 AGHABOG 1-03 BY COLM SHALVEY CLONES took full advantage of their second chance with a seven-point win over Aghabog in the Eurotech Junior Football League Final Replay at Scotstown last Sunday. Clones had been relieved to escape with a draw seven days earlier, but they upped their game to run out fairly comfortable winners against an Aghabog side who played two-thirds of the match with 14 men. Clones had suffered a string of semi-final and final defeats since being relegated to junior in 2006, including the ...

A week may be a long time in politics but two years, it seems, as an intercounty manager can be an eternity. by KEVIN CARNEY To the surprise of many in the Monaghan GAA family, outgoing county minor football team-manager Colin McAree has decided not to seek a nomination to remain in the hot seat for a third year. The Monaghan Harps clubman succeeded Bernie Murray as minor manager at the tail end of 2010, taking up the position for a two year term initially and with the understanding that a review after ...

JOHN GRAHAM Reports Ballybay take part in the Ulster senior club championship for the first time in 25 years when they take on Down champions Kilcoo in Clones on Sunday with a 2-30pm. start. In meeting the Down champions they are taking on a very experienced outfit as this year they won their second Down senior football championship in three years under the guidance of Jim McCorry and when you add three league titles to that championship haul under McCorry’s guidance it is an indication of the strength in depth that Kilcoo ...

AGHABOG 1-09 CLONES 1-09 BY JOHN GRAHAM IT WAS billed as one that had the potential to be a close encounter and that is exactly how it worked out as there was nothing to separate the sides at the end of this absorbing Junior Football League Final that was played in a good spirit in Scotstown on Sunday afternoon last. Overall a draw was probably a fair enough result as both sides enjoyed periods of dominance and both had also squandered chances, but overall Aghabog will have slightly more reason to be disappointed as they looked ...