Articles in the GAA Category

BY JOHN GRAHAM FERMANAGh native Malachy O’Rourke is the new Monaghan senior football team manager after his appointment for a three year term was ratified at last Monday night’s in camera County Committee meeting in Cloghan. Malachy O’Rourke’s was the name that had hit the streets as the front runner, albeit on a speculative note a week or so back, following the completion of the nomination and interview process for the position but it was confirmed even before last Monday night’s meeting that his was the only name that was being put ...

CORK 2-15 MONAGHAN 0-13 By MARY GRIMES MONAGHAN’S hopes of a place in the All Ireland Ladies SFC final for the second year running was cruelly dashed by a superior Cork team on Saturday last in Birr. From the very outset, Cork showed just why they have been the best team in the country in the last decade. Inside the opening minute, All star midfielder Juliet Murphy put over the first point for Cork to immediately put the Oriel county on the backfoot. Monaghan then got on the score sheet ...

TYHOLLAND 3-06 DONAGHMOYNE 0-12 By COLM SHALVEY TYHOLLAND set up a second Intermediate Football Championship Final meeting with Doohamlet in three years when they battled past Donaghmoyne in last Sunday’s semi-final at a rain-soaked Drumhowan. In a scrappy game which wasn’t helped by difficult conditions, Tyholland failed to impress despite playing against 14 men for more than half of the match and they were never able to really shake off a determined Donaghmoyne effort. Goals by Brian McArdle, Raymond Ronaghan and Shane Treanor – the first two of which had an element of luck ...

BY KEVIN CARNEY Derrylin native Malachy O’Rourke will be the public face of Gaelic football in county Monaghan for at least the next two years and depending on how he gets on in that period, he might well be at the tiller a third year too. O’Rourke emerged as the preferred choice of the four-man think-tank charged by the county committee to find a successor to Eamonn McEneaney. Reports from across the county suggest the former Fermanagh senior countyman was also the preferred choice of senior members of the outgoing Monaghan panel. The ratification ...

DRUMHOWAN 0-14 CLONES 0-09 BY JOHN GRAHAM A HUNGRIER Drumhowan brought a degree of intensity to this junior championship semi-final that proved just that little bit too potent for a Clones side who gave their all throughout but who could not prevent one of the favourites moving through to the final with a little bit to spare. Drumhowan were only headed once in the entire contest and that after just 30 seconds when Paul Shiels opened the scoring with a point for Clones but thereafter Drumhowan more ...

EMYVALE 2-12 EIRE OG 0-06 By JOHN GRAHAM IN THE end Emyvale who have been one of the favourites for the junior title since the start of the season, experienced little difficulty in booking their place in the final of the junior football championship as they ran out easy winners over an Eire Og side who were always facing an uphill battle. This game was only a contest in the real sense of the word for most of the opening half with little between the sides and Eire Og’s tough ...

By Colm Shalvey Ten teams are still in the running for the three Monaghan football championship titles, after a weekend in which Scotstown were the main casualty. Only semi-finals remain in the Senior and Intermediate Football Championships, while the Junior Football Championship is down to the last two teams. Last weekend’s action in the Gormley uPVC Senior Football Championship saw Castleblayney and Latton advance to the semi-finals at the expense of Scotstown and Currin. The Castleblayney v Scotstown game attracted a big crowd to Clontibret last Saturday, but it failed to ...

BY KEVIN CARNEY Monaghan ladies senior football manager Gregory McGonigle reckons that his side will be locking horns this weekend with “possibly the best team ladies football has ever seen”. The Oriel’s finest are scheduled to meet the bluebloods of Cork at Birr in this Saturday’s All-Ireland Ladies SFC semi-final with the winners of the tie hotly tipped to go on and secure the Holy Grail in the national decider. The two behemoths of the current ladies game will go head-to-head with the aim of booking a place in the final against Kerry ...

By Colm Shalvey The Monaghan football championships are in full swing, with 12 of the 30 teams in the senior, intermediate and junior competitions eliminated and the numbers remaining set to be whittled down by another four this weekend Truagh and Magheracloone became the first teams to be knocked out of the Gormley uPVC Senior Football Championship last weekend. The first semi-final places in what looks to be a wide open competition are up for grabs this weekend, with Clontibret up against Castleblayney and Ballybay facing Currin. Clontibret and Blayney, who produced the ...

In the wake of Eamonn McEneaney’s resignation Monaghan football is on the hunt for a new manager. by KEVIN CARNEY. The business of recruiting a man to become the public face of Monaghan football in 2013 was kick-started in earnest on Monday night last when the county committee met to rubber stamp the setting up of a four-man selection committee. The identity of the quartet charged with expediting the process of finding a successor to erstwhile county boss Eamonn McEneaney has been formally revealed and comes in the wake of the ...