Articles in the GAA Category

County Convention is the annual formal assembly of the GAA in Monaghan when the officers and club delegates gather in plenary session to decide on matters of governance and policy making for the coming year and to review the year just finished. Over the years the business of convention has changed dramatically from where it sometimes took two day-long sessions to complete it is now wrapped up in a matter of hours. That is the result of the fine tuning of the rules where the bulk of business is handled ...

While contests, even the prospect of contests, whets the appetite for County Convention this evening (Thursday) in the Hillgrove Hotel the main items on the agenda will be the County Secretary’s annual report which is seen as a review of the year just past as well as a look forward to 2012, along with the accounts for the year. The review 2011 start with a look back over county teams activities across all competitions from minor through to senior in league and championship, football and hurling. Overall the secretary describes Monaghan’s ...

Having absentee players return to the fold offers the prospect of a win-win situation, says newly-appointed county senior hurling boss Mattie Lennon who is set to have a players meeting this week. by KEVIN CARNEY … Newly-appointed senior county hurling team-manager Mattie Lennon has appealed to erstwhile stay-away players to make themselves available in 2012. Efforts to progress Monaghan hurling has been bedevilled over the years by the absence of some of the county’s top senior players who, for one reason or another, have decided to refrain from playing at intercounty ...

Cremartin had a year to remember, but it finished with a day to forget in Armagh last Sunday. The Shamrocks will look back and wonder how they lost to Tyrone side Derrytresk in a conversial Ulster Club Junior Football Championship Final at the Athletic Grounds. by COLM SHALVEY It’s fair to say that Antrim referee Gregory Walsh won’t be receiving any Christmas cards from Cremartin after a performance which was sharply criticised by their manager Gerry McCarville. The Monaghan legend, who intervened when a couple of his players remonstrated with Walsh at ...

By KEVIN CARNEY This year will see – for the first time since 1986 – Monaghan GAA County Board proudly proclaim ownership of it’s own official yearbook … 9th, is destined to be a red letter day in the annals of Monaghan GAA when the eagerly-awaited 2011 official county yearbook hits the shop shelves. The brainchild of outgoing county board chairman Paul Curran, the 2011 county yearbook will be launched on Thursday next, coinciding with the staging of this year’s County Convention. The production of an official yearbook forms an ...

Last Saturday night the 19th November 440 guests attended the GAA Handball All-Star Awards in Croke Park which proved to be another resounding success at the prestigious black-tie event. The night was again expertly hosted by RTE’s combination of Marty Morrissey and Evanne Ní Chuillin while Uachtaráin CLG, Christy Cooney, provided an inspiring speech to the appreciative crowd in which he again re-iterated that the outstanding progress being made by GAA Handball would continue to receive full backing and support from the GAA. He highlighted the World Championship plans for ...

By JOHN GRAHAM THERE WERE contrasting reactions in the various camps at the end of last Sunday’s contest in the Athletic Grounds with Latton annoyed with the referee and how quickly he blew the full-time whistle after sending off Burren substitute Eoin McCartan. Latton were just about allowed to take the free which they played short and just as their player was in possession from the short free Cassidy controversially blew the full-time whistle although there was about 10 seconds of the two minutes of stoppage time indicated still ...

By KEVIN CARNEY Monaghan’s rise up the pecking order of ladies football over the last 12 months was bookended on Saturday night last when four senior county players picked up 2011 All-Star awards. The hangdog looks of the Monaghan players on view in the immediate aftermath of last month’s All-Ireland SFC final defeat to Cork were relegated to history as Grainne McNally, Sharon Courtney, Therese McNally and Ciara McAnespie all received All-Star awards at the City West Hotel, Dublin. Joined by a gathering of the who’s who of ladies football, the ...

CREMARTIN 1-07 SHERCOCK 1-03 JOHN GRAHAM reports It is generally recognised that the team that learns most from a drawn game generally wins the replay and if that premis is applied to last Sunday’s Ulster junior club football championship quarter final replay then it was Cremartin who learned most as they deservedly advanced to the semi-final at the expense of Cavan champions Shercock in this well contested and at times exciting game in Clones on Sunday last. Conditions, weather-wise, were quite good with some very welcome ...

Joint Glenswilly boss Gary McDaid sounds a note of cautious optimism ahead of this Sunday’s Ulster Club SFC test with Latton.by KEVIN CARNEY Punters in Breffni land won’t need reminding that it’s Glenswilly and not Cavan Gaels who’ll go toe-to-toe with Latton this Sunday in the quarter-final of the Ulster club SFC. MacCumhaill Park, circa 2.30pm, is destined to feel like Rio De Janiero without the carnival for any exiled Breffni blues that may pop into the Ballybofey bastion of Gaelic games for a cheap gawk at what might have been. Glenswilly didn’t ...