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Truagh club got a fillip by winning the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship Final. by COLM SHALVEY Truagh followed in the footsteps of the recent championship victories of neighbours Scotstown and Emyvale when they won the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship Final against Tyholland last Sunday. This game went more or less according to the script, with Truagh’s youth and fitness eventually telling in the second half, but only after their credentials had been given a serious examination by a determined Tyholland team. The first half of this game was very entertaining, particularly ...

By John graham The final of the McGuigan Builders intermediate football championship took centre stage last weekend with the north Monaghan derby meeting of Truagh and Tyholland in Clontibret, where, despite the difficult prevailing weather conditions, these sides served up an intriguing contest but one where Truagh gradually got a vital grip and ran out deserving winners in the end to win promotion back to senior ranks at the first time of asking. For Tyholland it was another disappointing experience in an intermediate final as they also lost out in last year’s ...

Truagh 0-14 Tyholland 0-11 By JOHN GRAHAM LAST Sunday’s north Monaghan derby clash between Truagh and Tyholland in the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship Final lived up to its billing as these sides served up a riveting contest that was in the balance for practically the entire 60 odd minutes at Clontibret. Conditions on the day were difficult with heavy rain before and during the earlier part of the match but both sides still contrived to play some excellent football, string nice flowing moves together and hit some great scores from play and free ...

BY KEVIN CARNEY The age-old cliche which ordains that “goals win matches” richocheted around the rafters of St. Tighernach’s Park last Sunday after the curtain came down on a sparkling 2013 JFC final. As the multitudes of black and white clad gaels smothered the hallowed turf in Clones in celebratory mood after the final, there were few more delighted than Emyvale stalwart Marty McAree. McAree was part of the Emyvale troupe that captured the JFC in 2009 and four years on, his joy was reprised with the 4-9 to 1-9 victory over a ...

BY COLM SHALVEY Scotstown didn’t just win a first Gormley uPVC Senior Football Championship title in 20 years in Clones last Sunday; they blew a disappointing Clontibret away in the most one-sided county final since 1997. Scotstown had impressed in the semi-final, but how much of that was down to a jaded-looking Ballybay performance remained unclear. Clontibret were expected to provide a tougher nut to crack, but a strangely lethargic display from them saw them fall to a second county final defeat in a row. Scotstown burst out of the starting blocks, with ...

Scotstown 2-16 Clontibret 0-07 BY JOHN GRAHAM SCOTSTOWN may have waited 20 years to regain the senior football championship title but few would have thought that they would have such an easy passage to the title as they enjoyed in Clones on Sunday last against a Clontibret team that just simply failed to function on the day. Scotstown in this year’s championship campaign had beaten the last four championship title winners so they were well poised to strike for victory. The Scotstown line out in the official programme was but a shadow of how the ...

“There was a lot of lads still hurting from losing out in 2011. I think that hurt was still very raw and they didn’t want to lose another county final.” So stated Scotstown true blue Niall McKenna this week as he reflected on his club’s stunning SFC final victory (2-16 to 0-7) last Sunday over Clontibret. McKenna was captain of the Scotstown team that similarily worked the oracle in 1993. Conventional wisdom at that time had it (after also beating the O’Neills) that the Mick Duffy Cup would winter in McKenna’s home ...

BY Colm Shalvey Last Sunday’s draw means that Blackhill and Emyvale must meet again this Saturday under lights in Inniskeen to decide the outcome of the Universal Graphics Junior Football Championship Final. In a game that never reached the heights of the entertaining clash between the teams in Round 2A, both sides had reasons to be disappointed and relieved to leave Scotstown with a draw. They both showed nerves in a game that was interrupted by a number of stoppages, particularly in the second half, when Emyvale’s Mervyn Brown and Blackhill duo ...

by COLM SHALVEY The TG4 cameras will be in Clones on Sunday when two of the traditional big guns of Monaghan football go head-to-head in the Gormley uPVC Senior Football Championship Final. Clontibret have gone through the front door, defeating Clontibret and Scotstown to reach the semi-finals, where they needed a replay to edge past Monaghan Harps. Having beaten Magheracloone in the first round, Scotstown recovered from losing to Clontibret to see off Latton and Ballybay. Clontibret have one of the best forwards in the country right now in Ulster All-Star and All-Star ...