Articles in the GAA Category

At County level in 2015 the fortunes of the Monaghan senior, under-21 and minor teams were in complete contrast to each other, with the senior football team scaling the heights while at Under-21 and minor level there was not the same degree of excitement and celebration. by JOHN GRAHAM When Monaghan County Board Chairman Padraig Sherry described 2015 as “a fantastic one in Monaghan”, in his address to County Convention, he was in fact re-echoing the feelings of the vast majority of Monaghan people as the year just ending had seen ...

Donaghmoyne   0-11 Mourneabbey 0-08 By ERIN TREANOR Donaghmoyne returned to the top of ladies football’s pecking order after landing their fourth All-Ireland Senior Club Championship title in ten years on Sunday last in Parnell Park, Dublin. In honouring the memory of their late Chairman Martin Daly, the Monaghan and Ulster standard bearers were full value for their 0-11 to 0-8 victory over Cork kingpins Mourneabbey. After being battered by Storm Desmond over the previous two days, the Dublin venue was graced by perfect conditions for a match that turned out to be a brillant ...

Donaghmoyne ladies, Scotstown and St Macartan’s College took some late-2015 silverware back to County Monaghan last week. by COLM SHALVEY Donaghmoyne claimed a fourth All-Ireland Ladies Club SFC title with a hard-earned win over Mourneabbey at Parnell Park on Sunday. Donaghmoyne took a while to get into their stride, trailing by 0-3 to 0-1 after a scrappy opening 20 minutes, and even a burst of three unanswered points wasn’t enough for them to avoid going in a point down at half-time. Donaghmoyne had All-Star goalkeeper Linda Martin to thank for making a ...

Monaghan’s representatives in last Sunday’s AIB Ulster Club Finals experienced contrasting fortunes, with Scotstown going so close to completing a remarkable double just a few hours after Rockcorry thrilled their supporters with a famous victory. by COLM SHALVEY The double-header treated the crowd of nearly 9,000 in Armagh to some brilliant drama, starting with Rockcorry’s deserved JFC Final win over Faughanvale. Rock were in command of this junior decider throughout, even if their goal lived a charmed life at times, as they became the fifth Monaghan club to take the Paul ...

Rockcorry 3-12 Faughanvale 0-09 A rampant Rockcorry opened up a whole new chapter in their history when they added the Ulster club Junior football championship title to their Monaghan Junior championship victory, making for a unique double in what has been a history making year. This was Rockcorry’s first time to compete on the provincial stage and they more than justified their presence with a swashbuckling performance that the Derry Junior champions simply could not live with, in a great team performance that was peppered with some brilliant individual contributions in the ...

Danske Bank Ulster Colleges Edmund Rice Rannafast Cup Final Patrician 1-18 St Macartan’s 2-06 Patrician High School, Carrickmacross won the Danske Bank Ulster Colleges Rannafast Cup for the first time since 2000 in some style in this all-Monaghan final at Inniskeen last Friday night. St. Macartan’s College went into this much-anticipated clash with their county rivals as defending champions, but they were put to the sword by an impressive performance from the High School in front of a large crowd who braved the bitterly cold conditions. Andrew Woods, Seán Burns and Jack McMahon hit 1-14 ...

Monaghan football received a ringing endorsement from Louth U-21 joint manager Éamonn Dunne last Friday after he watched his Patrician High School team beat their county rivals St. Macartan’s College in the Rannafast Cup Final. The Carrickmacross school gave an exhibition of fast, flowing football to dethrone the Sem and win their second ever Ulster Colleges ‘A’ title, 15 years after the likes of Stephen Gollogly, Paul Meegan, James Conlon and Frank Markey led the way to Rannafast Cup success. Dunne, who has worked with the Wee County’s minor teams and was ...

Scotstown and Rockcorry will be bidding for Ulster Club Football Championship titles at the Athletic Grounds this Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY Scotstown take on the modern kingpins of Ulster club football, Crossmaglen, who are unbeaten in ten provincial finals. Four-time winners Scotstown have a history of success in this competition going back to the 1970s and ‘80s and although this is their first final since 1989, their modern stars like Darren and Kieran Hughes and Rory Beggan will be determined to add to their inter-county Ulster medals. Scotstown lost narrowly to ...

Doohamlet 1-10 Aughnamullen 0-08 JOHN GRAHAM It may have been disappointment in the Ulster club intermediate championship semi-final a week previous but on Sunday last a sharper, more focused Doohamlet finished their season on a high note as they clinched a first ever intermediate double of championship and league when they proved too adept in most aspects of their game for Aughnamullen in this very entertaining contest that was played in bright if somewhat chilly conditions in Corduff on Sunday afternoon last. The victory sees Doohamlet take the intermediate football league for only ...

AIB Ulster Club Junior Football Championship Round Up Is this current Rockcorry team the best team the club has come up with in nearly 30 years? Of course, we don’t want to overcook the already simmering expectation that has the village on-the-boil but, Berger, they’re looking good! Those of a certain vintage in this neck of the woods remember great Rock’ teams from the early to mid-eighties. We won’t mention names. Some of them are currently in their pomp within the club as coaches and administrators and it wouldn’t do if ...