Articles in the GAA Category

Scotstown and Rockcorry are looking forward to AIB Ulster Club Finals on Sunday week after their semi-final wins, while Doohamlet will attempt to bounce back from their club defeat in this weekend’s Intermediate Football League Final. by COLM SHALVEY Scotstown became the first Monaghan club to make the provincial SFC Final since 1994 when they battled past Trillick in Enniskillen. Once again, it was a victory inspired by Darren Hughes, who hit 2-2 to take his total in the two Ulster games to 3-6 (all from play). Trillick, who were ...

Scotstown  2-09 Trillick  2-07 Scotstown became the first Monaghan club to qualify for the AIB Ulster SFC Final since 1994 when they edged out Trillick in an entertaining encounter in Enniskillen last Sunday. Scotstown were pushed all the way by the Tyrone champions, but they got over the line in a tense finish to make their first provincial decider since 1989. Darren Hughes continued his impressive form at full-forward by hitting 2-2 for Scotstown, who also had good performances from the likes of Kieran Hughes, Orin Heaphey and Damien McArdle, while Richard and Niall ...

By JOHN GRAHAM The Ulster GAA Writers Annual Banquet and presentation of their Annual Awards on Friday night last was the culmination of their 28th year in recognising excellence both on and off the field right across the whole spectrum of gaelic games in the province. And the annual function did not disappoint, keeping up the great tradition that has been established over the years when a crowd of almost 300 assembled in the Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran, for the conferring of their Annual Awards. It was a gathering to honour the excellent ...

GAA GPA All-Star Awards The entertainment industry has the Academy Awards and the BAFTAS when the great and the good are recognised for outstanding performances and achievements in any given year and the GAA equivalent is the Opel sponsored GAA/GPA All Star Awards, the gongs handed out annually to those who are adjudged to have been the outstanding performers in their respective positions. The 2015 version was unveiled at a lavish function attended by over 1,600 guests in the National Convention Centre, Dublin, on Friday night last when the great and the ...

Three Monaghan clubs go in search of AIB Ulster Club Championship final places this Sunday, Scotstown aiming to become the first Monaghan team to make the provincial SFC Final since Clontibret in 1994. by COLM SHALVEY Scotstown are being widely tipped to replace the team they defeated at the quarter-final stage, Slaughtneil, as Ulster champions. They are spurred on by Darren and Kieran Hughes, who have each helped lead Monaghan to two Anglo-Celt Cups, alongside Rory Beggan, who has conceded just one goal in ten championship games in 2015. Conor ...

Killanny 2-07 Rockcorry  1-05 By JOHN GRAHAM With both these sides already promoted before last Sunday’s Eurotech Junior Football League Final at Drumowan the only thing to play for was the silverware and on the day the hungrier Killanny side prevailed to leave both teams now going up to intermediate ranks with a trophy on the sideboard. Conditions on the day were wintry and very difficult but thankfully the torrential rain that fell late on Sunday morning and into the early afternoon had abated before the start and the fact that it was dry ...

The achievement of Monaghan’s senior county footballers in winning their second Ulster title in three years last July was celebrated at a civic reception in the Four Seasons Hotel on Monday evening last, organised by Monaghan Co Council. It was certainly a case of a pleasure deferred being a pleasure enhanced – an event that had been delayed until the team’s All-Ireland odyssey and the interrupted club championship programme reached its conclusion took on an enhanced sense of savour as the Farneymen’s exploits were recalled from a more leisurely perspective. And, unusually ...

For the first time in four years, all three Monaghan football champions have qualified for the AIB Ulster Club semi-finals. by COLM SHALVEY Scotstown, Doohamlet and Rockcorry all picked up excellent results in the provincial championships last Sunday, making it the first time since 2011 – when Latton, Carrickmacross and Cremartin all won their quarter-finals – that Monaghan’s senior, intermediate and junior representatives have all cleared the first hurdle. Scotstown made headlines well beyond the county by dethroning Ulster champions Slaughtneil in an entertaining game in Clones. Darren Hughes gave a tour ...

Rockcorry meets Killanny in the Junior Football League Final on Sunday hoping for a championship and league double at junior level. But they are up against a Killanny side showing good form which is never easy. by JOHN GRAHAM It may not be a unique situation when Killanny and Rockcorry meet this Sunday in the final of the Junior football league, but it is a little unusual, as both are already promoted to intermediate ranks for next season, Rockcorry as the winners of the Junior football championship and Killanny as the ...

By John Graham John GrahamArd Stiurthoir Cumann Luthchleas Gael Paraic Duffy described Aghabog club as “one of the best clubs in Ireland” in his address to the guests at their 125 Banquet in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan on Saturday night last. Following a sumptuous meal and words of welcome from Club Chairman Tony McGorman, Paraic Duffy, in getting the formalities under way, spoke of the spirit that there is in the club and the dedication they have shown in building a club that is a prime example of what a GAA Club ...