Articles in the GAA Category

Colm Shalvey Round Up The Senior Football League got underway last Saturday with the first round of the new (A) games featuring county players and offering five points for a win as part of a major restructure to the league programme, designed at keeping games going through the summer. Conor McManus kicked ten points as Clontibret edged out Truagh. McManus and his county team-mates Conor Boyle and….

Team Malachy is building save best till last in cracking croker clash with Dubs Monaghan 2-12 Dublin 0-17 JOHN GRAHAM Monaghan finished their Allianz Football League Division 1 campaign on a winning note when they inflicted a first defeat on Dublin in this year’s competition, Fintan Kelly plundering that result with a brilliantly executed point 4 minutes into stoppage time at the end of an always interesting if never cutting edge encounter in headquarters on Sunday afternoon last. However for a game that was effectively a dead rubber, it provided a good level of ...

Monaghan 0-16 Donegal 1-10 JOHN GRAHAM A more resilient and a more experienced Monaghan ultimately proved too potent for an under strength Donegal in this entertaining National Football League Division 1 contest that was played in bitterly cold conditions in front of a crowd of some 4,680 hardy souls in Clones on Sunday afternoon last. It is a result that ensures Monaghan’s position in division 1 for next season, but it is a result too that consigns Donegal to a relegation dogfight against Mayo in McCumhaill Park, Ballybofey, next Sunday. Monaghan made a ...

Colm Shalvey reports Monaghan end their 2018 Allianz National Football League Division One campaign by taking on the Dubs at Croke Park on Sunday after a penultimate-round win over Donegal helped secure top-flight status. Monaghan will be in Division One for a fifth consecutive year in 2019 after last weekend’s results, although Dublin denying Galway a statement win in Salthill means that Malachy O’Rourke’s side aren’t playing for a place in the league final. Monaghan had too much for a weakened Donegal team in Clones last Sunday, earning a fourth win ...

A funded cross-Border project has been launched in response to the increase in numbers of people with mental health problems. Over the next four years, the large-scale cross-Border Innovation Recovery project offers an unprecedented opportunity to empower and enable people and communities to take greater control over their own mental and emotional wellbeing, the HSE said this week. This EU funding allocation has been secured by the Co-operation and Working Together (CAWT) Health and Social Care Partnership,” a HSE media release stated. “The CAWT project partners are the HSE, the ...

Colm Shalvey reports MONAGHAN V DONEGAL Donegal need a change in fortunes as they travel to Monaghan for the penultimate round of the Allianz National Football League Division One this Sunday. Monaghan go into round six still in third place, despite their three-game winning run ending with a loss to unbeaten Galway in Salthill last Sunday. Monaghan were in a promising position to turn over the joint-leaders towards the end of the first half, but the sending-off of Fintan Kelly proved to be a hammer blow to….

Galway 0-17 Monaghan 1-10 COLM SHALVEY Monaghan’s three-game winning run in the Allianz National Football League came to an end against unbeaten Galway at Pearse Stadium last Sunday. A Monaghan team showing eight changes from the win over Tyrone competed well against the breeze in the first half, helped by scores from Conor McManus, Jack McCarron and the returning Kieran Hughes, but the sending-off of Fintan Kelly left the visitors’ 14 men facing a tough task in the second period. Galway gradually gained the upper hand, with almost half of their scores….

Colm Shalvey reports Storm Emma caused Monaghan’s trip to Galway to be postponed last weekend, but the meeting of two of the Allianz National Football League Division One’s high-flying teams goes ahead this Sunday. In pre-season, few would have foreseen this clash at Pearse Stadium as being between two of the division’s form teams, but Galway have returned to the top flight with a bang by winning each of their first four games against Tyrone, …

Spring has definitely sprung and the disrupted NFL season, en bloc, looks likely to be resurrected this weekend but how much wiser will we be come Sunday evening? More to the point, how much wiser will the various managers be? By now, the realisation will have dawned on most of the rookies who were given their head during this year’s Dr. McKenna Cup and league campaigns that they don’t have a hope of starting for their county when the championship kicks off, all things being equal. Some of the newbies ...

Co Monaghan will benefit from “real investment and proper planning” which will help to “support families and strengthen communities” as a consequence of the “Project Ireland 2040” national development plan launched by the Government this week, according to Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys. Minister Humphreys, who was one of the key Government speakers when the plan received a high-profile launch in Sligo, said that road infrastructure, housing development, the restoration of the Ulster Canal and health projects were just some of the ...