Articles in the Sport Category

By COLM SHALVEY The overall winners of the Hillgrove Hotel-sponsored Club Monaghan half-time draw were presented with their prizes in Cloghan last Tuesday. Tickets were sold at each of the club championship games in the county this year, with winning tickets being entered into the grand draw after the completion of all the competitions. The list of prizes and winners is as follows: 300 litres of home heating oil (sponsored by TOP Cooltrim Oil): Jimmy Finnegan, Carrickmacross; iPhone: Kathleen McKenna, Truagh; €250 worth of fuel (sponsored by Aidan Woods Fuels): Sarah Doogan, ...

Emyvale 2-09 John Mitchels 0-12 EMYVALE moved through to the All Ireland Club Junior Football Championship semi final but they had to survive a second-half fight back by Liverpool side John Mitchels to book their place in Pairc na hEireann, Birmingham on Sunday last. Essentially it was their two goals in the first half that ultimately saw Emyvale over the line as they weathered the storm in testing conditions and came away with the all-important win which sees them advance to a semi-final showdown against Kildare’s Two Mile House but their resolve was ...

By Colm Shalvey The 2014 Official Monaghan GAA Yearbook is available now throughout the county at a cost of just €10. The yearbook, which comes in at over 400 pages, is a comprehensive and extensive review of another exciting 12 months for the county. Monaghan fell short of retaining the Ulster Senior and Minor Football Championship titles during the summer, but it was still a year in which the county’s flagship team won a second consecutive National League title on one of their three trips to Croke Park, where they finally ...

Largy College        2-11 Ballybay CC              1-08 By JOHN GRAHAM Largy College Clones staged a great final quarter recovery to clinch victory in this hugely entertaining and at times highly exciting under 16 final in Smithboro on Thursday afternoon last. Conditions on the day were extremely difficult, bitterly cold with a biting wind and intermittent driving rain, that did pose problems for both sets of players, but to their credit they rose above those conditions to produce some excellent passages of play although the conditions ...

Unlike this time 12 months ago, Monaghan don’t spend this Christmas as double Ulster football champions (quadruple, including the 2013 senior and minor ladies), but it’s fair to say that the county is in rude health looking ahead to 2015. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan’s long unbeaten record in Clones eventually fell in July’s Ulster SFC Final against Donegal and they were put to the sword by Dublin in their All-Ireland quarter-final, but another Allianz National Football League promotion and winning a championship game at Croke Park for only the second time ...

By Colm Shalvey This evening, Thursday, December 4th, sees the elected officers of Monaghan County Board, the membership of the various subcommittees and the club delegates, gather in plenary session in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan, for Convention 2015. Convention is traditionally a time when the year just ending is reviewed in all its varying aspects and discussions take place and plans are made and outlined for the year ahead. Over the years though, the degree of business that is now conducted at County Convention has been greatly diminished with the result that ...

The highly anticipated National Community Games Area and Volunteer Awards night took place Saturday last, 6th December, in the Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick. Monaghan were well represented by outstanding volunteers from throughout the county to receive their well-deserved awards. A huge congratulations to our individual volunteer award winners who were recognised on the night for their great continuous support to the organisation in both their area and at county level. Well done to Liam O’Connor who received the Adult Volunteer Award and Emily Busby who was awarded the Youth ...

Monaghan’s bid to regain the All-Ireland Ladies’ Senior Football Championship title has received a boost with the announcement that well-respected coach Peter Clark has assumed the mantle of senior team manager for the coming year. Clark comes to the hot-seat with very good credentials, having enjoyed particularly high profile success at colleges’ level. While attached to the ladies team at Dublin City University, he steered them to three O’Connor Cup titles and, under his watch, DCU were presented with the 2011 Award for Excellence in Coaching. Clark brings with him ...

The winners of the 2014 Monaghan GAA Annual Awards, sponsored by The Northern Standard Newspaper, were announced at County Convention in the Hillgrove Hotel last Thursday night, with the championship winners in each grade dominating the Player-of-the-Year awards. by COLM SHALVEY Vincent Corey, who won a sixth Mick Duffy Cup this year, was named Senior Footballer of the Year for the first time, seeing off strong claims from his Clontibret team-mate Conor McManus, who previously won the award in 2009. There was no surprise with the Intermediate Football award, where Paul Meegan ...

THE reports of the various subcommittees were adopted en-bloc. The Competitions Control Committee report showed that the committee administered a programme of fixtures that was made up of 740 adult games and 645 juvenile games in football and hurling and the Chairman Austin Corrigan pointed out in his report that “with the wonderful success of our County team it was a major achievement to have the fixtures programme completed by the 30th of November”. The report showed that disciplinary actions by the committee in 2014 had decreased from that of ...