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Boss Kieran said Magheracloone ‘didn’t have training facilities of our own’ for first six months of season Colm Shalvey reports Magheracloone have made light of the loss of their own playing facilities to sit top of the IFL, as well as being through to Sunday’s McElvaney’s Waste & Recycling Intermediate Football Championship Final. Team manager James Kieran said: “It was certainly a factor for the first six months because we didn’t have any training facilities of our own. We were doing a lot of travelling and we were very dependent on the ...

Mitchells supporters positive on Magheracloone’s championship chances MAGHERACLOONE 1-13 EMYVALE 1-09 John Graham reports Magheracloone and Emyvale produced a totally riveting McElvaney’s Waste & Recycling Intermediate Football Championship semi-final that was in the balance right through when they met in Inniskeen on Sunday evening last where under foot conditions were difficult due to the incessant rain. Having said that though Magheracloone always looked that little bit stronger even though they were forced to field without influential full forward Michael Metzger who was ruled out with an ankle injury. Magheracloone were headed only once in ...

KEVIN ÓG CARNEY Given the politically correct days that are in it, the Northern Standard can’t be seen to wax lyrical about two Fat Ladies and Legs Eleven, never mind Kelly’s Eye, but, as our accompanying pics illustrate, everyone else (among the near-600 souls present) with Bingo on the brain and Sean McDermotts in their hearts were in their element checking things out at the GAA complex in Threemilehouse last Monday night. Most people currently living in Ireland weren’t born 25 years ago when a brains trust – or should ...

COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY It’s all knock-out from here on in the local club championships as the race for the titles heats up. The Universal Graphics Junior Football Championship Final will be between two recent winners after Blackhill and Drumhowan came through last Sunday’s semi-final doubleheader in Scotstown. Drumhowan, who won the JFC four times between 2006 and 2014, have re-established their championship pedigree with an unbeaten run this year and they continued that with an exciting win over Clones. Veteran forward Colm Lambe rolled back the years with a 1-8 haul for ...

KEVIN ÓG CARNEY Manager Declan Moen is expecting his side to face their toughest test of the season so far when they seek to extend their championship campaign this Saturday. Moen has reported a fully-fit squad ahead of his team’s trip to Buncrana, County Donegal this weekend when the newly-crowned Monaghan IFC champions will bid to add the Ulster ladies football title to their county crown. The amalgam of players from Clontibret and Cremartin has been buoyed by their success last weekend in overcoming Ballinascreen in the preliminary round of the ...

Hughes, Carey, McCarthy and Turley on the spot for champions Scotstown SCOTSTOWN 0-19 TRUAGH 2-13 John Graham reports Scotstown survived a real scare in this at times tense local derby game in Clontibret last Sunday afternoon, fighting back initially to force extra time and then surviving a penalty shootout when the sides were still deadlocked after twenty plus hectic minutes to keep their undefeated senior football championship run intact. This is a game that Truagh will look back on though as one that they were in a strong position to push for victory, but ...

COLM SHALVEY Monaghan teams thrived at the All-Ireland 7s in Naomh Mearnóg and Kilmacud Crokes last weekend. Emyvale, O’Neill Shamrocks and Castleblayney U-14s all brought All-Ireland titles home to top off an historic weekend for Ladies Football, which saw another record attendance at Sunday’s finals triple-header at Croke Park. Emyvale claimed their third All-Ireland Senior Sevens Ladies Football Championship title following a hectic day of action at Naomh Mearnóg and St. Sylvester’s GAA Clubs in Dublin on Saturday. The north-Monaghan club delivered their first All-Ireland Sevens success since 2015, following ...

Years are passing us by so quickly, it’s eight years since Denise Toner returned to the competitive running scene, and in that time she never could have dreamed of the feats she has achieved in to this point in her career. Back to the beginning, she had dominated the local road racing circuit in the early years, progressing on to the Cross Country where she won an Ulster Intermediate title in her second year. In 2014 she returned to track running and in 2015 after winning the National Indoor 800m ...

COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY There has been much talk about Séamus McEnaney’s return as manager of the Monaghan senior footballers for 2020, with experienced players Conor Mc- Manus and Darren Hughes welcoming the Corduff man’s re-appointment to take the reins from Malachy O’Rourke. Banty’s track record – including six campaigns in this role between 2005 and 2010 – is well known within the county, so here we put the spotlight on the high-profile members of his backroom….

Team captain delights in adding to Fontenoys’ fame KEVIN ÓG CARNEY Ever since winning the county JFC title in 2000, Donaghmoyne have been the flavour du jour in Monaghan ladies football circles. Last weekend, the Fontenoys did what they do best; they clinched yet another county title with their 1-15 to 0-11 SFC final victory over eager Emyvale marking their 17th successive annexation of the blue riband title. Back in 2003 when the Farneysiders clinched their first Monaghan SFC title, a 13 year old Hazel Kingham (CIRCLED) shone like a pearl on ...