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INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP JUNIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Like the senior championship there are four games down for decision in this year’s intermediate football championship, two on Saturday afternoon, Monaghan Harps at home against Doohamlet in Gavan Duffy Park (4pm), and Emyvale taking on Killanny in St Oliver Plunkett Park (4pm). MONAGHAN HARPS V DOOHAMLET: Doohamlet have a good record in the intermediate championship in recent times and having been relegated from senior ranks at the end of last year they would certainly come into the reckoning as strong contenders in this ...

Colm Shalvey reports The long-awaited start of the club football championships is almost with us, with 12 Senior, Intermediate and Junior games down for decision this weekend. In a year like no other, the ‘new normal’ continues to pose challenges to clubs, particularly the limits on supporters attending the games, but for now there is a prevailing sense of relief that the focus can finally turn to the on-field action, with a host of intriguing pairings on the agenda for week one. The stand-out fixture on Saturday evening (and the one ...

Juvenile’s return plan starts tomorrow Ladies’ championships begin Saturday Colm Shalvey reports Monaghan GAA’s condensed programme of juvenile competitions is set to get underway tomorrow (Friday) with the first round at the minor grade. The U-17 Football Championships are set to begin with eleven games in the opening round across the three divisions. The top division features Carrickmacross v Donaghmoyne; Cremartin v Magheracloone; and Monaghan Harps v Castleblayney, while Division Two starts off with Clann na nGael (Oram/Toome), Clontibret, Latton and Scotstown hosting St. Patrick’s (Ballybay/ Drumhowan), Truagh, Tyholland and Emyvale, respectively. Division ...

JOHN GRAHAM REPORTS The GAA has announced a raft of new measures that will apply in club competitions which are due to get under way this week, the exercise aimed at making the playing of the games as safe as possible. Chief among them are two specially strengthened regulations regarding deliberate coughing and spitting while others are designed to limit the contact between players, team mentors and squad members. Deliberately coughing in the face of an opponent will be considered as behaving in a way that is dangerous and will warrant ...

Group-stage fixtures confirmed for new-look Monaghan championship Colm Shalvey reports Monaghan GAA this week confirmed details for the upcoming club championship schedule. All games in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Football Championships will be played on Saturdays and Sundays, starting on July 25. There are six games down for decision on that opening day, starting with a trio of 4pm throw-ins: the IFC Group Two openers between Monaghan Harps and Doohamlet and Emyvale and Killanny and the JFC Group One clash of Rockcorry and Oram. The second game in the latter group ...

.Former Donegal GAA star and TG4 Cul Camps TV show coach Kevin Cassidy (photo) was on hand, with his children Aoife, Nia and Fionn, to launch the Kellogg’s GAA Cul Camps on-pack competition. Kellogg-now in its ninth year sponsoring the Kelloggís GAA Cul Camps- has launched the nationwide on-pack promotion for all GAA clubs across the country to be in with a chance to win prizes worth 40,000 euro in their biggest on-pack prize offering ever. SEE PAGE 34 in this week’s Northern Standard.

JOHN GRAHAM The GAA has reversed its position on sanctioning teams who violate the ban on inter-county training before September 14th by potentially disqualifying them from competition. In a sharp escalation a conference call of county officials heard last weekend that such an approach was now being hardened considerably with possible ejection from competitions if counties are found to be training prior to September 14th. Part of the problem would appear to have been that some County team managers were not making the players available to the clubs and that ...

COLM SHALVEY REPORTS The restructured Monaghan GAA championship draws were made at Monday night’s county committee meeting. With the original 2020 club schedule having been ripped up by the lengthy stoppage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Monaghan GAA recently introduced a round-robin system which will see each of the three divisions split into two groups of five, with the accelerated return of Gaelic games also seeing the start date brought forward by a week to the last weekend in July. Promoted sides Donaghmoyne and Magheracloone are among three south-Monaghan clubs, along ...

Colm Shalvey reports Drumhowan man Noel Duffy completed a marathon undertaking in the early hours of last Saturday morning when he walked his 20th half-marathon this month to round off a virtual trek from his home to Mizen Head in Co Cork, the southernmost point in Ireland. At the time of writing, the money raised was heading towards €15,000 to be split between the Irish Heart Foundation and the Acute Stroke Unit in our Lady of Lourdes hospital, Drogheda; in memory of noel’s mother, Nan Duffy, who died as a result ...

John Graham reports After a 13-week lockdown, the GAA announced that its grounds re-opened yesterday, Wednesday, five days earlier than initially intended. It follows the easing of government restrictions on Friday and the latest recommendations from the Covid-19 advisory Committee. The previous reopening date for clubs was June 29th. From Wednesday, adult teams will be allowed train on a non-contact basis, on the understanding that they follow strict protocols, with minor and all juvenile teams granted permission to return on Saturday. All teams will be allowed to resume full contact training ...