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Seamus McEnaney has announced that he is not letting his name go through the nomination process to select the manager of the Monaghan senior county football team for next season. Incumbent in the position for the last six years, McEnaney was believed to be deeply unhappy about the recent Co Committee decision to conduct a selection procedure for the management role. In a statement confirming that he will not be submitting his name as a nominee for the manager’s position for next season, the man dubbed ‘the Banty’ describes the decision as ...

A large and representative section of the Monaghan GAA family has decided to put on hold the question of who’ll take charge of the county’s senior footballers, senior hurlers and minor hurlers in 2011. At their August monthly meeting on Monday evening last in Truagh, the County Committee voted by a majority decision to back a proposal allowing clubs to put forward nominations for the positions of all three outgoing managers, Seamus McEnaney, Frank Brady and Brendan Murphy. The county board has set a deadline of September 3rd next for ...

Seamus McEnaney will know on Monday night next whether he is to be afforded the opportunity to commence a seventh year in charge of the county senior football team. On Tuesday night last, members of the Management Committee of Monaghan GAA County Board agreed unanimously to put forward his name as their nominee for the post of senior county team-manager. Earlier that day (Tuesday) McEnaney had made it known to county board chiefs that he was interested in staying at the helm. This coming Monday night, August 16th, St. Mellan’s GAA Complex in ...

Inniskeen wrote a whole new chapter in their illustrious history when they took the club’s first ever senior hurling championship title on Sunday last, defeating Castleblayney in a highly exciting contest in Aughnamullen. Fortune favours the brave is an adage that is often quoted in such circumstances and Inniskeen proved both its worth and its truth with a scintillating second half performance and a storming finish that ultimately clinched the title. The victory sees this group of players achieve another notable first for the club in that quite a number of them ...

It’s win or bust for the Monaghan senior footballers in Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC fourth-round qualifier against Kildare in Croke Park. Séamus McEnaney and his team don’t have long to get over their crushing Ulster final defeat at the hands of Tyrone, with just six days between that game and this weekend’s return to action. They will be determined, however, to make up for the disappointment of last week and keep their championship hopes alive. McEnaney said after the Tyrone game “We won’t finish on that note; we won’t be walking away ...

Monaghan’s appearance in the final of the Ulster senior football championship is an occasion to be savoured to the full as it is not something that comes around every year. True this is Monaghan’s second appearance in the Ulster championship final in four years having reached the final in 2007 but the county has to go back a further 19 years from 2007 for their previous appearance. Monaghan appeared in the final twice in the 1980’s and won both finals, making for a very heady atmosphere throughout the county ...

Monaghan have reached the final of this year’s Ulster senior football championship in swashbuckling style having dismissed summarily the challenges of both Armagh and Fermanagh. The decider against Tyrone though promises to be a totally different affair and Monaghan will need all of their powers of concentration for the entire 70 odd minutes if they are to bridge that 22 year championship gap since Monaghan last won the Anglo Celt Cup back in 1988.