Articles in the GAA Category

Cavan 3-14 Monaghan 1-15 JOHN GRAHAM A resurgent Cavan sent Monaghan crashing out of the Ulster minor football championship when the sides met in Kingspan Breffni Park on Sunday evening last. Goals were crucial to this Cavan victory as they found the Monaghan net on three occasions, twice in the second-half, while their goalkeeper Gary O’Rourke also played a vital part in the victory with a number of top-class saves. Cavan got off to the better start and had opened a 5 points lead by the end of the first quarter but Monaghan ...

Colm Shalvey Saturday is a big day for Monaghan’s senior footballers and hurlers as they both put their championship hopes on the line, with Fermanagh the opponents for the Ulster SFC preliminary- round game in Clones. Monaghan are strongly fancied to progress after a strong Allianz Football League campaign, but they only need to look back to last summer to avoid any danger of complacency seeping in. Monaghan’s last championship game saw Longford dump them out, a week after their Ulster…

Last Saturday was set aside as the date when the children of the County could come to Cloghan and meet their heroes, the members of the Monaghan County team who will do battle with Fermanagh in the Ulster senior football championship on Saturday, May 20th, in Clones. These open days are now a feature of the GAA right across the country and it is a concept that is growing in popularity year on year with huge crowds of children turning out on Saturday last to have their photographs taken with ...

Monaghan 1-16 Donegal 1-12 COLM SHALVEY Monaghan qualified for the Nicky Rackard Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2013 with a four-point win over Donegal in Inniskeen last Saturday. Donegal started much stronger, but Monaghan hung in throughout the first half and after changing ends just a point down, they took the game to their opponents after the restart. With Fergal Rafter on form from frees on his way to a tally of 0-10 and Tadhg Campbell finding the net, Monaghan gained the upper hand to end their wait for a knock-out ...

Monaghan 0-16 Tyrone 2-11 John Graham reports from St Mary’s Park The concession of two goals midway through the second half cost Monaghan dearly in this Nicky Rackard Cup clash at St Mary’s Park, Castleblayney, on Saturday afternoon last. Overall this could be regarded by Monaghan as a game that simply got away from them with the concession of two soft goals in the 16th and 18th minutes of the second-half. Monaghan missed a number of reasonable chances, a couple from frees particularly in the first half and a second half penalty, conceding ...

Scotstown and Latton continue to lead the way on full points after four rounds in the County Monaghan Credit Unions Senior Football League. Shane Carey and Conor Mc- Carthy were in prolific form as Scotstown ran out 4-12 to 3-6 winners at home to Killanny on Saturday. Scotstown raced into a 1-3 to 0-0 lead, with the goal coming from McCarthy, before Steven McMahon found the net to open Killanny’s account. Further goals from McCarthy and Carey had Scotstown 3-6 to 1-3 clear at halftime and although they were down ...

Monaghan’s minor and U-17 football teams experienced mixed fortunes in their provincial league knock-out games last Saturday. The minor side fell to a 1-12 to 1-7 defeat against Derry in the Ulster Minor Football League Cup semi-final at Celtic Park. A Derry side backboned by several players from the St. Mary’s Grammar School, Magherafelt team that won the MacRory Cup last month, led throughout this game and they were 1-5 to 0-4 clear at half-time. Scores were few and far between for both teams in the third quarter, with Darren ...

Aughnamullen continue to lead the way in the Intermediate Football League with their gritty 1-16 to 0-13 win over hosts Toome again highly impressive. The Sarsfields hit the ground running with a goal by Mark McArdle after only three minutes. The hosts nipped away at the Sarsfields’ heels all day and they pulled it back to just a point, 0-4 to 1-2, after 17 minutes only for Kevin Sheridan to give the winners-elect extra breathing space. Thereafter a brace of points from the in-form Chris Keenan in the run into the short whistle ...

KEVIN OG CARNEY Relief and joy were etched into Cathriona McConnell’s post-match comments as she reflected on Monaghan’s dramatic 3-11 to 2-11 NFL Division One relegation play-off win against Armagh last weekend. The Donaghmoyne dynamo’s 2-4 tally made her a stand-out in the game but, typically, the ace attacker was wont to cast the plaudits far and wide. “Everyone really stood up and was counted ’cause we were determined not to go down to Division Two for the first time in 26 years,” McConnell explained. “Our aim was to make sure that we’re still ...

Aughnamullen laid down a marker in this year’s IFL by dint of their comprehensive 2-19 to 3-6 victory over visitors Emyvale in an interesting first round tie on Saturday last. Ironically, Emyvale started the brighter of the two teams with an opening goal and point which put them in the driving seat. However Aughnamullen slowly but surely got themselves into the game and they soon went on a scoring spree with points including aces from Chris Keenan(two), Michael Bannigan (three) and Colin Clerkin (five). The Sarsfields remained on the front foot ...