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John Graham It’s another jam packed and action packed weekend with twelve championship matches scheduled between relegation play offs in the McElvaney’s Waste & Recycling Intermediate and Greenfield Foods Senior Championships and quarter-finals in the Universal Graphics Junior Football championship spread over Saturday and Sunday. The action gets under way at 2:30pm on Saturday, with two play offs in the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship, Clontibret seeking redemption following their exit from the series last Sunday when they take on Castleblayney in Cremartin and Carrickmacross is the venue for the meeting ...

Colm Shalvey reports Can champions Clontibret complete great escape in relegation play-off? Amid the ongoing restrictions and after a final round of group games where the slimmest of margins sent some teams on separate paths towards the top end or the relegation shake-up, the Monaghan club football championships reach the knockout stages this weekend. The messy sideline scenes towards the end of the Latton v Carrickmacross game garnered the headlines on a weekend where there were many talking points across the grades, not least holders Clontibret losing their grip on the Mick ...

Club football championship groups reach the final round Colm Shalvey reports The round-robin stages of the club football championships conclude this weekend, with plenty still to play for in all three grades, even though the final round of group games is set to be played behind closed doors. The deeply unpopular decision that all sport in Ireland must be held without fans with immediate effect until at least September 13 as part of a series of new measures to limit the resurgence of Covid-19 was announced on Tuesday. The return to behind-closeddoors ...

COLM SHALVEY The GAA has clarified that members and players who test positive for COVID-19 do not automatically require their clubs to be shut down. Dick Clerkin, chair of Croke Park’s medical, scientific and welfare committee, told The Irish Times: “From a GAA point of view, we are not stating that on the basis of a single case, a club goes into lockdown, which we do see on an ad-hoc basis… To date – and this all could change – if a player or club member tested positive and went ...

Plenty of thrills and spills in ‘new normal’ style of championships Colm Shalvey reports The long-awaited start of the club football championships arrived under the ‘new normal’ last weekend. A new format using home and away venues for the round-robin stage, limited crowds in the grounds, onlookers using any imaginable vantage point to get a glimpse of the action, dressing rooms remaining out of bounds and several clubs offering live streams of their games meant it was anything but an average championship weekend. However, despite the lengthy layoff, the games across the ...

JOHN GRAHAM The first salvos have already been fired in this year’s two tier hurling championship with the opening qualifier games seeing Carrickmacross HC and Inniskeen going to the senior championship while Monaghan Harps HC and Clontibret went to the Junior series. There were two games in the senior hurling championship last night Wednesday, July 29th, Castleblayney HC at home to Truagh, which…

Club championships continue with teams hitting their stride Colm Shalvey reports The group stages of the club football championships continue at pace, with round three down for decision this weekend. With an average winning margin of less than three points in the second round of games across the three grades last weekend, there have been a glut of close finishes, while just one team in each division have managed back-to-back victories to date. Scotstown are the only team with two wins to their name in the Greenfield Foods SFC after they held off ...

PATRICK SMYTH Kieran McQuaid ensured his name will be etched on Rossmore Golf Club’s Captain’s Day roll of honour with victory at Rossmore Golf Cub last weeend. The 21-year-old, from Emyvale, who has been playing golf for just over a year, beat a strong field of over 200 players in testing conditions. Kieran’s first round score of 42 points saw him lead after posting three birdies and six pars on the Friday, where club captain Tom Cully had greeted every player before their round. In the nine-hole play-off on Sunday the ...

Plenty of thrills and spills in ‘new normal’ style of championships Colm Shalvey reports The long-awaited start of the club football championships arrived under the ‘new normal’ last weekend. A new format using home and away venues for the round-robin stage, limited crowds in the grounds, onlookers using any imaginable vantage point to get a glimpse of the action, dressing rooms remaining out of bounds and several clubs offering live streams of their games meant it was anything but an average championship weekend. However, despite the lengthy layoff, the games across the ...

McGuinness saves the day as Ballybay bravely battle back for hard-earned draw John Graham reports Ballybay staged a strong recovery in the dying embers of this Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship contest in Pearse Park last Sunday that saw them finishing level with the County champions, which gives each of them a point apiece in this round-robin section of the competition. Earlier it looked as if Ballybay could actually overturn the champions in that they started with a flourish to lead by four points at the end of the opening quarter and ...