Articles in the GAA Category

COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY Monaghan advanced to a rematch with Tyrone in the winners’ group of the Electric Ireland Ulster Minor Football Championship after surviving a major scare at a wet and windy Corrigan Park last Saturday. With six straight wins in the provincial series since losing to Derry after extra-time in the first round just over 12 months ago and having inflicted a heavy defeat on Antrim on their way to last month’s Ulster MFL Final, Monaghan travelled to Belfast as strong favourites, but they had to dig deep to edge ...

Monaghan minors face Down in Clones Monaghan’s minor footballers start their Ulster title defence in Clones this Saturday. Just a week after having to go to extra- time in the Ulster MFL Final, Monaghan are in action again as they take on Down in the preliminary round of the provincial championship. Monaghan started what would prove to be an epic championship campaign with an extra-time defeat against Derry 12 months ago, before coming back to claim only the county’s second Ulster MFC since 1945. Monaghan recovered from losing their opening game ...

JOHN GRAHAM reports There was a great sense of euphoria as the big crowd basked in the reflected glory of the Ballybay Community College All Ireland Post Primary Schools championship winning team, coupled with the achievement of local man Jamie Hughes, who won a gold medal at the recent Special Olympics, when they were special guests at a civic reception hosted by the Ballybay/Clones Municipal District Council and the Ballybay Chamber of Commerce on Thursday evening last. Among…

Michael Fisher During a topical issues session in the Dáil on Tuesday evening, Cavan Monaghan Sinn Féin Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin questioned the Minister for Justice, Charles Flanagan about an operation by armed Garda units in Monaghan town last month. During an incident at Dublin Street, a man was injured and required hospital treatment. The matter was referred by Gardaí to the Garda Ombudsman. During the exchange with Minister Flanagan, Deputy Ó Caolaín placed on record this newspaper’s front page story on March 28th, quoting the full response to our ...

By COLM SHALVEY Monaghan’s senior footballers received a short-term boost and a potentially much longer-lasting blow this week. The bad news came via a serious injury that Darren Hughes suffered in Scotstown’s Shoe City Senior Football League game against Ballybay last Sunday. A fractured ankle is expected to keep the experienced Scotstown man out for 10-12 weeks and with Monaghan’s resources in the midfield area already being stretched during 2019 to date, particularly in the long-term absence of 2018 All-Star nominee Niall Kearns, this will be a headache for Malachy ...

JOHN GRAHAM reports A golden Jubilee is a landmark date in any walk of life, or in any organisation and the golden Jubilee of Scor in Monaghan was celebrated with a special Gala concert in the Garage Theatre, Monaghan, on Friday evening last. From its humble beginnings back in 1969 as a movement to promote the Irish language and Irish culture within the GAA, Scor has grown to be a major part of GAA activities in practically every club in the country and last Friday night’s concert was a ...

Colm Shalvey Reports Scotstown 2-13 Ballybay 2-15 Ballybay got their first win of this year’s SFL when they won this repeat of the 2018 SFC Final away to Scotstown last Sunday. The county champions fielded ten of the team that won that final in a game marred by an early injury to county man Darren Hughes during a first half that ended with Ballybay five points clear. Scotstown rallied to cut the gap to one during the second half, but they couldn’t avoid back-to-back narrow defeats, while Ballybay (who had drawn with Carrickmacross ...

Killeevan 0-13 Scotstown 2-07 John Graham Scotstown’s Ruairi McKenna saw the sides share the spoils in this opening round Eurotech Junior Football League fixture played in good conditions at Emmet Park, Aghabog, on Saturday afternoon last. Overall a draw was probably a fair enough result in a game that was quite evenly contested throughout, although at times Scotstown did look that little bit sharper, while a number of errors and players taking the wrong option saw Killeevan make life difficult for themselves at various stages. That said though, they shades the exchanges in ...

BRENDAN O DUFAIGH History beckons for Coláist e Oiria ll tomorrow (Friday) when they cross swords with Moate Community School, Co. Westmeath in the Under 16 All-Ireland Girls Football Championship decider. The final will throw in at 12.30pm in Pearse Park, Longford and it is hoped that gaels right across the Farney County will be present to cheer on Coláiste Oiriall to what would prove to be a unique title triumph. Tá na cailíní ar thairseach na staire mar ní raibh foireann peile de chuid na scoile i gCraobh na ...

Monaghan retain Division One status Monaghan can look forward to a sixth consecutive year in the Allianz National Football League Division One after escaping the drop in last Sunday’s final round. Monaghan lost to Division One finalists Mayo in a high-scoring shoot-out in Castlebar, but with results elsewhere going in their favour – notably Roscommon losing to Kerry – they avoided what would have been a first relegation of Malachy O’Rourke’s time in charge. It was Monaghan’s third time this decade to secure their status on the final day of the ...