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busy week for county teams, Monaghan will be bidding to stretch their unbeaten run in the Allianz National Football League Division One when they make the much shorter trip to Omagh for round four on Saturday evening. Last Sunday’s win away to Kerry put Monaghan top of the table ahead of this local derby, which comes just six days after the Healy Park pitch was unplayable for Tyrone’s scheduled clash with Cavan. All involved will be hoping for an improvement in the weather in the next few days to help conditions ...

The manager’s view A very pleased Malachy O’Rourke reckons the nature of Monaghan’s display in beating Kerry last Sunday was just as satisfying as picking up another two NFL points. O’Rourke says his side handled the pressure of going into the lion’s den very well and rebounded superbly after conceding an early goal which asked some serious questions of Monaghan: “We are delighted with the win obviously, but maybe even more so with the performance,” O’Rourke confirmed, “because there are times that you win and you don’t perform well on the day. “We ...

Kevin Carney In the same weekend that Hollywood’s film industry captured the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Monaghan’s senior footballer produced yet another blockbuster Broadway affair down in the Kingdom. O’Rourke and co have become something akin to serial winners in the deep south and last Sunday, Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney morphed into a dreamscape for the second successive season as Kerry were downed (1-10 to 2-8) in a topsy-turvy NFL Division One clash. In looking ahead here last week to the Kerry game, we felt that Monaghan could go toe-to-toe with ...

Beware the wounded beast, might well be the maxim for Monaghan when they travel to the Kingdom to take on a Kerry side that will still be hurting from their defeat by Mayo last time out. Kerry had started the league with a flourish, full of running and inventive football to take the 2 points in their opening game away to Donegal in O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny, and while one point was the margin at the finish in that one it did not reflect Kerry’s superiority for the bulk ...

Kevin Carney Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice felt bruised as he surveyed the wreakage of his side’s 1-10 to 0-15 defeat to Mayo last time out in the NFL. This Sunday, Monaghan fans will be hoping it’ll be a case of a bruised and a battered Fitzmaurice circa 3.30pm after his side host Malachy O’Rourke’s men. This weekend’s clash is more important than an ordinary third round fixture might suggest ‘cause the eventual winner will have cause to be entitled to look towards the summit while the loser will be hard pressed not to ...

By JOHN GRAHAM The Castleblayney Faughs club had their hands full on Sunday last in organising and stewarding the big game between Monaghan and Cavan in St Mary’s Park but they still took time to promote a very human aspect of their support for one of their own, young Kym Owens. Kym Owens is a young Castleblayney girl who was seriously injured in an unexplained incident on her way back to college in Maynooth back on November 20th, 2016 when she sustained significant head injuries and suffered broken teeth, a broken ...

Monaghan remain unbeaten facing into the mini-break in the Allianz National Football League Division One, but only after enduring a dogfight with Cavan that finished level in Castleblayney last Sunday. Both counties will struggle to take much from a game that Malachy Clerkin aptly described in The Irish Times as akin to “watching identical twins slap each other in the face for an hour”. The teams evenly shared 14 points in a game where no player scored more than once from open play, which will have left both sides feeling a ...

By Colm Shalvey The famous old rivalry of Monaghan and Cavan makes its return to the Allianz National Football League Division One in front of what should be approaching a full house in Castleblayney this Sunday. It’s a first league meeting of these neighbours since Cavan won in Division Three back in 2013, but Monaghan have had two dramatic one-point Ulster SFC wins since then. Both of Monaghan’s NFL games in Blayney since the return of county football to St. Mary’s Park after an absence of almost a decade have also ...

A tenth Monaghan senior goal for Darren Hughes and a 400th inter-county point for Conor McManus helped Monaghan secure a first ever Allianz National Football League win on Mayo soil last Saturday evening. A determined effort by Monaghan saw them earn a valuable two points in chilly Castlebar to once again start their Division One campaign on the front foot. The result saw Monaghan launch the year with an away win for the third time in a row, as well as continuing their record of not having lost a league ...

Lidl Ladies National Football Final Division 1 Dublin 1-07 Monaghan 0-05 ERIN TREANOR Despite making a promising start, Monaghan’s senior ladies footballers made a losing start to their NFL Division One campaign, going down to hosts Dublin on Sunday last. In the corresponding tie last year, Monaghan suffered a very heavy defeat against the All Ireland runners up so they were hoping to turn things on their head on Sunday last. It must be said that the girls put in a resilient display and despite coming out on the wrong end of the score line, the ...