Articles in the GAA Category

Convention 2010 saw major changes to the County Committee and this year could be similarly eventful, writes COLM SHALVEY With the on-field action almost finished for 2010 (well, as soon as the snow thaws enough for the remaining few games to be played), attention is set to turn to matters away from the pitch, with County Convention 2011 going ahead next Thursday (December 9). The annual Convention offers a chance to look back at the year gone by and look forward to next year. On the playing front, this year saw the ...

Monaghan scooped two of the prestigious awards on offer at last Thursday night’s Quinn Insurance sponsored Ulster GAA Writers Gala Banquet and Awards presentation in the Slieve Russell Hotel. The event which is the biggest such gathering on the GAA social scene attracted over 500 guests and was described by Ulster GAA Writers chairman, John P Graham, who also acted as Fear a Ti, as an outstanding success. The Communications Award came to Monaghan for the fourth time in all when Siobhan McQuillan won out over Derry’s Sean Gunning and Tyrone’s ...

The curtain is soon to come down on another club season in Monaghan, with only the Senior and Intermediate Football League Finals to be played, writes COLM SHALVEY

The heady times continue for Corduff and Doohamlet. And with both clubs now awaiting Ulster clu final dates, there is every possibility that Christmas will come early for both parties, writes KEVIN CARNEY he Gaels and the O’Neills have cut a dash in 2010 and their premier teams’ panoply of skills has propelled them to the cusp of provincial club title triumphs in the JFC and IFC competitions respectively. Corduff left their best wine ’till last last Sunday at Casement Park to leave opponents Grange (Armagh) punch drunk (0-10 to 0-15) and ...

GAA All Stars Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and Alan Brogan put the pressure on in Parnell Park, as the five finalists of the SureMen challenge went head to head to win €10,000 for their club. Five hurling and football clubs battled it out in the Grand Final for the chance to win the grand prize. Monaghan man Brendan Lennon of Latton O’Rahillys stormed through the football rounds leaving Galway lagging behind to take €10,000 for the south Monaghan club. Rebel Vincent Hurley of Courcey Rovers GAA Club, Cork, clinched it in the last ...

Monaghan County Board officially launched its Strategic Development Plan at a special function in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan, on Monday evening last, writes JOHN GRAHAM As well as the officers of the county board, representatives of all the clubs in the county, committees and sub-committees as well as TD Margaret Conlon and other local elected representatives. The Uachtaran of Comhairle Uladh, Aogan Farrell and Ard Stiurthoir CLG Paraic Duffy were also in attendance, both speaking very positively about this landmark report that is essentially the roadmap for the association in Monaghan ...

Bonds, bankruptcies, bills, burst bubbles. Hair shirt times for us all. Boom times though for the O’Neills and the Gaels; Doohamlet and Corduff, that is writes Kevin Carney Not content with having chivvied out blue riband county titles a few weeks ago, both have went on a joyous safari around the province. Instead of pulling the curtains down on 2010 after making Monaghan’s top table, Doohamlet and Corduff’s finest have made little of winter’s vast grey curtains of rain and wind to terrorise opponents in Ulster. This Sunday at Brewster Park, Enniskillen, Doohamlet ...

COLM SHALVEY reports Inniskeen’s dream year continued when they completed a clean sweep of the Monaghan senior hurling titles with a three-point win over Truagh in the Reserve Hurling League Final at Sarsfield Park, Aughnamullen last Sunday. It was the second year in a row that the Grattans had defeated Truagh in the final and like last year, it was Truagh’s finishing that let them down as they hit 15 wides. The north-Monaghan men led by a point inside the last five minutes, but a goal from Séamus Shevlin and a couple of ...

By KEVIN CARNEY Ballybofey may have proven a killing ground last Sunday for Clontibret’s Ulster club SFC ambitions but Doohamlet and Corduff press on. They say two out of three ain’t bad and the success achieved by the O’Neills and the Gaels in their provincial intermediate and junior sorties last weekend has again left at least a sizeable part of the county heavily pregnant with expectation. This year’s IFC and JFC winners have both located enough freedom outside of the confines of the county for their supporters to start sniping glances ...

KEVIN CARNEY Reports Spawned from the loins of the Glens of Antrim, the Cloughmills St. Brigid’s side had the appendix of champions-elect indelibly etched on their camans by scribes nationwide last week. Pundits, bar none, had pencilled in the Antrim champions for an All-Ireland JHC semi-final tilt with the best from the west down the line.It was thus no surprise that the St Brigid’s crew from the home of Ulster hurling travelled the relatively short distance to Casement Park with all the swagger of Goliath. Inniskeen, the script had ordained, would put ...