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Scotstown 2-13 Clontibret 1-12 If there is any truth in the adage that it takes a good team to win a senior championship but it takes a great team to put titles back-to-back, then this Scotstown team has joined the elite teams from a previous generation who achieved that feat, by putting titles back-to-back for the club for the first time since the 1992/93 seasons. Scotstown are worthy champions again and deserved their double achievement as they were too strong for Clontibret in key departments, albeit a slightly under-strength Clontibret, but ...

PATRICK SMYTH sixteen SFC titles apiece – something has to give! The clock is ticking. Sunday week looms large on the horizon and Clontibret and Scotstown are on their starter’s orders. The glittering prize beckons. But just where will the Mick Duffy Cup winter this year? St. Mary’s Park, Castleblayney will be the proverbial bearpit in just over a week’s time as the two behemoths of the past decade go head-to-head for the right to claim their 17th SFC title. Clontibret first made their acquaintance with the biggest prize Monaghan sport has to offer ...

Tyholland 0-22 Emyvale 1-09 COLM SHALVEY Tyholland are through to the McElvaney’s Waste and Recycling Intermediate Football Championship semi finals for a sixth time in seven years after an impressive win over neighbours Emyvale in Truagh last Sunday. Emyvale led by the narrowest of margins at the end of a well-contested first half, but Tyholland hit 15 points in a free-flowing second-half performance to run out convincing winners. Tyholland hit eight unanswered points after the restart and although a brief resurgence gave Emyvale hope, the favourites finished with another burst of seven scores ...

Clontibret 1-12 Magheracloone 3-04 Clontibret held out in a frenetic finish to clinch their place in the final of the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship in this disappointing and at times scrappy encounter that was played in very blustery conditions in Clones on Sunday last. Clontibret had been the more purposeful team for most of the match after Magheracloone got off to a very good start with two goals in the opening eight minutes, both by Paudie McMahon, but it was an initiative they failed to build on as they struggled for ...

The Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship semi finals take centre stage in Clones this Sunday, with two intriguing pairings. by COLM SHALVEY Clontibret are in their tenth SFC semi-final in 11 years and bidding for a ninth county final appearance since 2002 when they take on Magheracloone, who are at this stage again after a five-year absence. Wins over Monaghan Harps and Latton have seen Magheracloone take the direct route to the last four, while Clontibret have bounced back from losing to Ballybay by knocking out Doohamlet, Monaghan Harps and Latton. There is ...

Monaghan are back in the hunt to win the biggest prize there is in ladies senior football, according to team-manager Paula Cunningham, despite last Saturday’s heart-breaking defeat (2-10 to 1-10) to Cork in the All-Ireland SFC semi-final. The NFL meeting of the teams last March saw the Munster ladies stroll to a 25 points victory but it was a totally different story last weekend in Limerick’s Gaelic Grounds and Cunningham believes that her charges might even have sneaked a victory on Shannonside: “I genuinely felt that going into the last 10 minutes ...

Scotstown 0-15 Truagh 0-07 Scotstown may not have been firing on all cylinders but they still proved too strong for Truagh in this Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship encounterf which booked their place in the semi-final and keeps their aspirations of retaining their senior championship crown on track. The defending championds will know however that it will take further improvement on this performance to keep the dream alive as they had to work hard against a Truagh team that put in a vastly improved performance from their display against Ballybay in ...

Scotstown 0-18 Carrickmacross 0-12 Scotstown’s aspirations of retaining the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship are back on track following this 6 points victory over Carrickmacross in a fairly run-of-the-mill affair in Aughnamullen on Sunday afternoon last and a result that sees Carrickmacross exit the series. Led by the Hughes brothers, Darren at full forward, who finished with 6 points and Kieran at centre back, along with Francis Caulfield in midfield, Scotstown always held an edge after racing into a 5 points lead in the opening 6 minutes. This however was somewhat short ...

Ballybay and Magheracloone claimed the first two semi-final places in the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship with wins over Truagh and Latton respectively in Clontibret on Sunday evening. by COLM SHALVEY Ballybay had it all too easy as they put a much-changed Truagh team to the sword to make a fifth semi-final in six years. Truagh made five changes to the team named for the programme, with John McCarron joining fellow county panellists Paudie and Daniel McKenna on the list of absentees; the latter being in Chicago. A dismal performance by ...

By Kevin Carney COUNTY senior ladies football manager Paula Cunningham (pictured) will have a full deck to play with as Monaghan prepare to cross swords with Kerry in this Saturday’s (2.15pm) All-Ireland SFC Quarter-Final at Birr. The Clones native will attempt to upset the apple-cart and reach the last four of the competition but aside from some niggly injuries in the camp, all of the players who secured the 2016 Ulster title are fit and ready to do battle. Part of a double bill in Birr which includes Cavan v Cork’s quarter-final tie ...