Articles in the GAA Category

A third title and a first since 1997 is in the sights of the Monaghan senior ladies footballers as they head to Croke Park for Sunday’s TG4 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final against Cork. Monaghan have lost four finals since the county last won the Brendan Martin Cup, in 1998 (after a replay), 2002, 2008 and 2011, but there are strong signals that this team is ready to land the big prize. Comfortable wins over Donegal and Tyrone saw Monaghan lift a fourth consecutive Ulster title and they went on to crush ...

The countdown is on this Sunday afternoon (4pm) and the meeting of Monaghan and Cork in what has all the makings of being the most intriguing, most unpredictable of all-Ireland ladies football finals in recent years. Shrewd observers of the ladies’ game are at one in their view that the two best teams in 2013 will contest this year’s blue riband decider. Opinion is slightly divided among those at the higher echelons of the game on who will emerge triumphant. However there is growing support for the notion that Monaghan can end a ...

Monaghan ladies manager Gregory McGonigle told The Northern Standard that he is very happy with his team’s preparations for Sunday’s All-Ireland final. He said: “It’s going very well. Obviously we qualified four weeks out from the final, so it gave us plenty of time to prepare. You have stuff like this; the open night, which has to be done from a point of view of trying to promote the game, but other than that, the girls have been concentrating on their training. A couple of players had club championship last week, ...

Donaghmoyne 1-13 Cremartin 1-10 BY JOHN GRAHAM DONAGHMOYNE staged a strong finish to book their place in the semi-finals of the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship at Aughnamullen on Saturday afternoon last. While Donaghmoyne took the lead with the first point of the game in the fifth minute they were playing catch up to a Cremartin side that showed great industry with the accuracy of Kevin Brennan in particular giving them an edge for long periods, with the result that Donaghmoyne did not regain the lead until the 19th minute of the second-half ...

Currin 2-13 Clones 1-05 BY JOHN GRAHAM A stronger, more incisive Currin booked their place in the semi-final of the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship with relative ease when they had 11 points to spare over Clones in strong winds and driving rain in Ballybay on Sunday evening last. Playing with the advantage of the elements in the first half Currin had things more or less wrapped up by the halfway stage when they led by 16 points with Clones failing to raise even one white flag during what was a torrid ...

Tyholland 3-07 Inniskeen 0-15 BY JOHN GRAHAM TYHOLLAND held out for the narrowest of victories to send Inniskeen crashing out of the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship in this very entertaining and at times highly exciting contest that built to an exhilarating finish in Emyvale on Saturday evening last. Goals eventually did the trick for Tyholland as they struck three in all, two in the opening 10 minutes of the second half, the second of those putting them in the lead for the first time and thereafter they hung in very effectively to ...

Ballybay 2-12 Monaghan Harps 0-11 By JOHN GRAHAM REIGNING champions Ballybay are through to the semi-final of this year’s Gormley uPVC Senior Football championship following their well merited seven points victory over 14 man Monaghan Harps in Scotstown on Sunday evening last. This was a game though where the Harps asked a number of questions of the champions particularly in the early stages but ultimately Ballybay had most of the answers and grew in stature as the game progressed. Monaghan Harps got off to a flying start and carried the game to Ballybay who took ...

By John Graham It is beginning to get down to the business end of things in the Gormley uPVC senior football championship with two teams already through to the semi finals but there is still a lot to play for in the qualifier games that are scheduled for this Sunday with sudden death awaiting those unfortunate enough to lose out in these two matches, Magheracloone v Doohamlet and Latton v Scotstown, that are being staged as a double bill in Clontibret. Both of these sides have shown great character to resurrect their ...