Articles in the GAA Category

Ballybay 1-08 Latton 0-09 By JOHN GRAHAM REIGNING champions Ballybay recorded their second win in this year’s Gormley uPVC Senior Football championship with this victory over Latton on Sunday last in Inniskeen in what was a re-run of last year’s semi final. This was a game where most of the drama was packed into the closing minutes as Ballybay fought back from being three points in arrears with five minutes to go to winning by four points, although it was a finish that generated a deal of controversy. Three down with five minutes left, ...

Monaghan Town Runners Monaghan 10 and 5 Miler Fun Run is on this Sunday, August 18th. Event starts at 12.30pm. Registration begins at 9.30am at The Leisure Centre, Clones Road. Registration forms are also available at MR J’s, Dublin Street. The Monaghan 10 miler has quickly established itself as one of the top road races in Ireland. Runners from Dublin and Belfast as well visitors to Ireland will be arriving in Monaghan Town this weekend. The club’s facebook page has recorded hundreds of accepted invites and entries are coming in fast. Coral ...

True grit from the Grattans reclaims the Mick Quigley Cup … while Harps command performance captures the Championship Shield. by COLM SHALVEY Last Saturday’s Silver Hill Foods Senior Hurling Championship Final will live long in the memory after Inniskeen produced a storming finish to edge out Castleblayney by a single point. It may have been a game dominated by frees, with Inniskeen captain Ronan Meegan hitting ten of his team’s 13 points from placed balls, but that won’t matter to the Grattans, who have now shared the last four county titles with ...

Monaghan Harps 0-19 Carrickmacross 0-05 By COLM SHALVEY MONAGHAN Harps won the Senior Hurling Shield for the second time in three years when they eased past Carrickmacross in Clontibret last Saturday. Having won the Development League title earlier this year, the Harps had gone on to give Castleblayney a scare in the championship semi-finals and they were always on top here, despite hitting 16 wides. Maurice McKenna, Alan Lee, Niall Hahessy, Shane Smyth and Robbie Healy were on song for the Harps, while Jason O’Rourke, Aonghus Mac Suibhne and goalkeeper Jamie Guinan were best for Carrick. Carrickmacross were ...

Inniskeen 0-13 Castleblayney 1-09 By JOHN GRAHAM THE ACCURACY of Ronan Meegan was a crucial factor as Inniskeen wrested the Monaghan senior hurling championship title from the grip of reigning champions Castleblayney in this closely contested if at times quite rough and tumble encounter that was played in somewhat greasy conditions in Clontibret on Saturday evening last. Castleblayney were going for their 28th senior championship title in all and their 14th title in the last 15 years but Inniskeen talisman and captain Ronan Meegan struck with deadly effect in the closing minutes to clinch ...

Rossmore Golf Club was en fete on Sunday night last with the world and his mother there to shake the hand of the man who ran Rossmore ragged and who proved yet again that while form is temporary, class is permanent. John Heffernan won the Captain’s Prize in 2008. This year he recaptured some of his lustre of old to beat the best of the rest in a fantastic competition which did amateur golf in this neck of the woods proud. Congratulations to all and sundry who backed John at the ...

Heartbreak Hotel and Seventh Heaven both had visits from Monaghan’s loyal band of football followers over the course of an emotional weekend. by COLM SHALVEY A big weekend for Monaghan football brought agony on the Saturday and ecstasy on the Monday as the seniors and minors experienced contrasting fortunes in their All-Ireland quarter-finals. The emotions felt on both days were written all over the faces of the loyal Monaghan supporters who travelled to both Croke Park and Longford on Monday as they left the grounds. The senior match ended in a cacophony ...

By Colm Shalvey Monaghan’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final defeat against Tyrone at Croke Park on Saturday brought an excellent year to a bitterly disappointing end. The aftermath of the game has been dominated by Joe Brolly’s furious reaction to cynical play by Tyrone and particularly Seán Cavanagh’s foul on Conor McManus as the Monaghan attacker bore down on goal. However, when looking back at it, Monaghan will be disappointed that – despite their best efforts – they just couldn’t replicate the performance that won them the Ulster final against Donegal. Having led by ...