Articles tagged with: Malachy O’Rourke

With ten days to go until Monaghan and Donegal lock horns, excitement is building for the third consecutive Ulster SFC Final between these teams. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan’s preparations for the renewal of Ulster football’s big current rivalry have centred on injuries to Ballybay club-mates Drew Wylie and Christopher McGuinness. The elder Wylie brother’s knee injury is now said to be a less-serious medial ligament damage rather than the cruciate, as originally thought, which means he could still play some part in the championship, although it is very much a long shot ...

By Kevin Carney Last Sunday in Clones was as good a day for Monaghan as it was a bad day for Derry. Malachy O’Rourke’s troops responded to the advent of spring with a spring-heeled display that now leaves the Oak Leafers on the cusp of relegation. In contrast, it’s all looking pretty for O’Rourke and co. and they can now eye a place in the semi-finals with some confidence. Monaghan largely dictated the pace of the game at St. Tighernach’s Park. Derry were off the pace for most of the game and even ...

By John Graham There was no doubting that Monaghan was the top team from the province in April. The fact too that they beat Donegal would help put an end to the talk that last year’s Ulster championship victory over Donegal was a flash in pan as Monaghan were again worthy winners on the big stage. There can be no question as to the influence that Malachy O’Rourke has had since he joined Monaghan at the end of the 2011 season. To date, and he is only in his second year in ...

Ulster Senior Football Championship Semi Final SO WHAT OF MONAGHAN? The initial reaction of Monaghan team manager Malachy O’Rourke following his side’s victory over Antrim back on Sunday, June 9th “that we didn’t frighten anyone in Ulster today”, underlined the amount of work that needed to be done and no doubt he and his backroom team will have been working diligently to remedy the perceived shortcomings in Monaghan’s game. It was obvious from the start of that contest that Antrim’s approach was one of containment and to a large extent it worked. In ...

BY JOHN GRAHAM Ulster Senior Football Championship Quarter Final So can Monaghan build on their success in winning Division 3 of the Allianz Football league? There is every indication that they can as team manager Malachy O’Rourke used the league to develop players, to blood a number of young players coming in, to give game time to players recovering from injury and to begin the programme of preparation for the championship because without the league, the training and the games teams would be coming into the Summer less well-prepared than ...

Monaghan 1-13 St Mary’s University 2-06 BY JOHN GRAHAM MONAGHAN got their 2013 season off to a winning start and repeated their 2012 win over St. Mary’s University, Belfast when they had four points to spare over the students this time around. Both sides indulged in a degree of experimentation in this opening Dr McKenna Cup game that was played in difficult conditions in Clones on Sunday last in front of a crowd of 856 patrons. St Mary’s were missing a number of players due to county involvement and injuries while Monaghan manager Malachy O’Rourke ...

New Monaghan manager will take the positives as his side passes the University exam – but toughers tests await by COLM SHALVEY … Nobody is going to get carried away with a four-point win over an understrength St. Mary’s University side in the first round of the Power NI Dr. McKenna Cup, but there were a few reasons to be positive in Monaghan’s performance in Clones last Sunday. New manager Malachy O’Rourke will be happy with how his team performed in the first half, but he will know that they still ...

Dr McKenna Cup pipe-opener offers new manager valuable scope for experimentation. by COLM SHALVEY A Dr. McKenna Cup game against St. Mary’s University on the first Sunday in January certainly isn’t the most glamorous of fixtures, but this opening group game takes on more importance than usual, as Malachy O’Rourke will be hoping to mark his first competitive match as manager with a promising performance. As usual, the pre-season competition looks likely to be used to try out different players and give . With six newcomers on the panel named last month ...

By KEVIN CARNEY Malachy O’Rourke has appealed to all stakeholders in Monaghan GAA to row in together so that success can be more easily attained. The new county senior football manager was ensconced in Latton’s think-tank for their SFC semi-final joust with Ballybay last weekend but he has now firmly turned his attention towards the county scene and making a success of his minimum two year term in the hot seat. The former Fermanagh senior player added to his knowledge of football in Monaghan by joining Latton’s backroom team back in July (repeating ...

BY JOHN GRAHAM FERMANAGh native Malachy O’Rourke is the new Monaghan senior football team manager after his appointment for a three year term was ratified at last Monday night’s in camera County Committee meeting in Cloghan. Malachy O’Rourke’s was the name that had hit the streets as the front runner, albeit on a speculative note a week or so back, following the completion of the nomination and interview process for the position but it was confirmed even before last Monday night’s meeting that his was the only name that was being put ...