Articles in the GAA Category

Dublin are still on top of the National Football League division 1 with maximum points from their four games so far but they just escaped by the skin of their teeth at the end of this pulsating encounter in Clones on Sunday last when they held out in a frenetic if somewhat extended finish to win by the narrowest of margins. It was a bitterly disappointing outcome for Monaghan as, despite a slow start, they had carried the game to Dublin in the second half but too often good chances were ...

Monaghan host Dublin this Sunday in Clones in the National Football League and will be hoping to kickstart their climb up the Division 1 table, writes KEVIN CARNEY The Dublin senior football think-tank is hoping that a repeat of the tally of scores garnered by the Dubs against Kerry in the last round of the NFL will be sufficient to overcome Monaghan in Clones this Sunday. The Metropolitans notched 3-10 in the win over the Kingdom at Croke Park – a result which maintained their 100% record in division one of this ...

Monaghan came away from their visit to the newly refurbished Athletic Grounds in Armagh on Sunday last with the bitter taste of deep disappointment after they had seen victory cruelly snatched from them in stoppage time at the end of a game where they had done enough to at least take a share of the spoils if not outright victory. Played in very blustery conditions this was a tough contest between these near neighbours and keen rivals with tempers threatening to flare on occasion. It was a game too that ...

Monaghan have received a timely boost ahead of Sunday’s NFL showdown against Armagh with the return to the panel of a number of regulars. Manager Eamonn McEneaney, speaking to The Northern Standard this week, said: “Vincent Corey and Owen Lennon are back in training but it’s a matter of how far on they are. Damien and Tomas Freeman have been with us now for three or four sessions but again it’s a matter of how much they have done and how much they have to do. Darren Hughes is ...

COLM SHALVEY reports Monaghan’s National Hurling League Division 3B campaign got off to a disappointing start when they fell to a heavy defeat against Fingal at Lawless Memorial Park in Swords last Sunday. Fingal flew out of the starting blocks and they never looked back as their greater use of possession proved crucial against a Monaghan team who resorted too often to hit-and-hope deliveries into the forward line and who weren’t helped by a total of ten wides. Fingal centre-forward Martin Ormonde was in fine form, scoring an impressive 2-8, while fellow ...

JOHN GRAHAM reports A sharper, hungrier Donegal experienced little difficulty in moving through to the All Ireland stage of the inter county Vocational Schools championship when they proved too strong and too adept in practically every aspect of their game as they dumped, Monaghan, the reigning champions for the last three years out of the series with a scintillating display in Kildress on Tuesday evening last. Donegal dominated this game from start to finish and never allowed Monaghan to establish anything like a foothold and but for some woeful finishing they could ...

Eamonn McEneaney was obviously delighted with his side’s victory in Clones on Sunday last but he wasn’t going to get too carried away as it is the first game in what will be a very demanding league programme. His counterpart Galway manager Tomas O’Flatharta was in somewhat different mood and was not only disappointed at the defeat but somewhat shell shocked by the manner in which his side completely capitulated in the second-half. Eamonn McEneaney was adopting the approach that they were taking it one game at a time and he did ...

AIB All-Ireland Junior hurling Club Championship Semi Final Inniskeen’s dream of adding All Ireland glory to their Monaghan and Ulster titles lay in tatters on Sunday last after they were defeated by a stronger, more incisive John Lockes Kilkenny side in this hard hitting but hugely entertaining semi final that was played in bright if chilly conditions in Lakepoint Park, Mullingar on Sunday last. Inniskeen though lost nothing in defeat and they played with their hearts on their sleeves and matched the Kilkenny men in practically every aspect of play but ultimately ...

Two former greats of the game in Monaghan, Benny Mone, Clontibret, and Jim O’Hanlon, Ballybay, were inducted into the Monaghan GAA Hall of Fame at last Saturday night’s Northern Standard/R&S Printers sponsored awards ceremony in the Hillgrove Hotel … It was fitting perhaps that these two men were jointly inducted on the same night as they were part and parcel of a great era in Monaghan club football in particular when Ballybay and Clontibret were the dominant forces. Born in Wolverhampton in England Benny Mone came home to Clontibret just over ...

The oft postponed and long-awaited final of the 2010 Streamline Coaches sponsored Intermediate Football League saw Inniskeen clinch promotion to senior ranks for this year when they had two points to spare over Doohamlet at the end of a tough, physical battle in Drumhowan on Sunday last. A somewhat fortuitous goal with six minutes of normal time remaining, when Gavin Dooley seemed to get the final touch in a goalmouth scramble, was the score that set Inniskeen on their way to victory but they had to hold out as Doohamlet mounted ...