Articles in the GAA Category

Fermanagh await in familiar Ulster duel COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY A familiar foe awaits Monaghan in Sunday week’s All-Ireland SFC Round One Qualifier after Monday morning’s draw paired them with Fermanagh. This local derby in Clones on June 9 will be an eighth time for Malachy O’Rourke to face his native county since he took charge in Monaghan for the 2013 campaign. Monaghan had enjoyed a good record against their near-neighbours, including Ulster championship wins in 2015 and 2017, but Fermanagh, of course, turned the tables on a fancied Oriel side in last ...

Senior Football League ROUNDUP Clontibret remained seven points clear at the top of the Shoe City Senior Football League after making it seven games unbeaten last Friday. Clontibret have already matched their points total from the 2018 SFL after they continued their unbeaten start with a sevenpoint win away to Castleblayney. The teams shared the first six points of the game evenly, but a Conor McCooey brace moved Clontibret ahead, before Michael O’Dowd netted a penalty to leave them 1-5 to 0-4 up at half-time. Kieran and Brian Greenan added points ...

CAVAN 1-13 MONAGHAN 0-12 …an attack saw Cavan win a free out, while Stephen O’Hanlon was narrowly wide at the end of a good move before Cavan struck for their second point through Niall Murray in the fourth minute. A minute later one of the controversial decisions in the game when Conor Madden was adjudged to have been fouled in the area after he had been picked out with an inch perfect pass from Martin Reilly and referee Lane spread his arms for a penalty. The decision was harsh in the extreme ...

KEVIN ÓG CARNEY REPORTS For all the whooping and hollering, beating of chests, gnashing of teeth and thumping of feet spawned by Saturday’s championship tie, the final result mightn’t even appear in bold in the annals of Cavan and Monaghan GAA. In terms of the quality of the fare, the size of the crowd and the prevailing atmosphere, Kingspan Breffni last weekend was no big deal. Indeed, the football overall was bang average, just like the attendance. As for the atmosphere, it was strangely more Cavan- Roscommon than Cavan- Monaghan. Perhaps…

• Rockcorry divers set a global headline… By PATSY McARDLE VETERAN Co. Monaghan divers, and some newcomers to the skills of underwater searches from a new diving club at Rockcorry, are linked to a major international exercise which led, last week, with the “gifting” to an appropriate ship museum, of some initial artefacts from The Lusitania, which was sunk off the Old Head of Kinsale in Cork, on 7th May 1915. The passenger liner was torpedoed by a German U-Boat, but mystery surrounds the cause of a second explosion which came—as ...

High summer is fast approaching and Monaghan’s county football and hurling teams are in need of funding. They stand crouched on the starting line in anticipation of going the distance but they need financial support to fuel their efforts. Cue McAree Engineering. For more years that the commoner garden Monaghan GAA follower can remember, McAree’s from Ballinode have been generously sponsoring Monaghan GAA’ Annual Golf Classic. Last weekend, a bumper entry and an appreciative support at Rossmore Golf Club watched as the 2019 version of the fundraiser lived up to ...

It’ll take a very good performance to overcome Monaghan says Cavan boss Graham Cavan team-manager Mickey Graham has told the Northern Standard that having an injury-free squad this week is the best he could have wished for. The Breffni blues have been blessed in terms of the Ulster Senior Football Championship draws over the last ten years, being afforded the opportunity to bat on home ground on eight occasions in that period. However, while home advantage is a great boon to Graham, the importance of having no injuries to contend with ...

Farney boys aiming for three-in-a-row This Saturday Monaghan face what is probably their most searching test in the defence of their Ulster minor football championship crown when they take on Tyrone in Carrickmore at 6pm. This will be Monaghan’s third outing in the Ulster minor football championship and it will be their second meeting with Tyrone in competitive action this year. They also played Tyrone in the final of the Jim McGuigan Cup, the Ulster Minor Football League, a game that Monaghan had the opportunity to clinch in normal time, leading ...

COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY Monaghan face a rematch with Tyrone in the winners’ group of the Electric Ireland Ulster Minor Football Championship in Carrickmore on Saturday evening. Having ended strongly to beat Down in the preliminary round, before creeping over the finishing line against Antrim a fortnight ago, Monaghan have two wins to their name in this year’s championship, stretching the county’s winning run in this competition to seven games in the space of just over 12 months. Mark Counihan and his team know they will have to step up their performance ...

COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY With just over two weeks to go until the Ulster SFC derby clash with Cavan and the Monaghan players turning their full attention to the county scene after last night’s club games, the countdown is on to the latest instalment of this storied rivalry. Monaghan county football management requested following last weekend’s club fixtures that round five be postponed due to a “reported growing injury list”. The county board’s fixtures committee gave clubs the option to defer these ‘five-point’ games until August, but at the time of writing ...