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St Macartan’s      1-11 St Mary’s                 1-06 By COLM SHALVEY St. Macartan’s College ended a 37-year wait when they won the Rannafast Cup Final against St. Mary’s, Magherafelt last Friday night. This final, played at the Queen’s University Dub Arena, which was in immaculate condition despite constant rain, saw the Sem dominate and run out fully deserving winners, with eight players getting on the scoresheet. The Monaghan team should have been ahead at half-time even after playing against the wind and they took charge after the ...

Soccer in Clones is to get a €200,000 financial windfall. Funding to this amount was announced for Ireland’s oldest soccer club by Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring last Thursday evening for the construction of dressing rooms at the club’s newly developed grounds in the heart of the border town. Minister Ring commented that since coming to office, he had made a special allocation each year to specific sporting disciplines. They have included rugby, boxing, athletics and swimming pools. “I am now pleased to be able to allocate €1.2 million in ...

By Colm Shalvey Donaghmoyne and Corduff will contest this Sunday’s Monaghan Electrical Intermediate Football League Final, while Clontibret and Scotstown will battle it out for the right to play Castleblayney in the County Monaghan Group of Credit Unions Senior Football League decider. Corduff held off a late charge from Clones last Sunday to qualify for this Sunday’s IFL Final, where they will play Donaghmoyne, who edged out Ulster Club IFC finalists Inniskeen in their league semi-final 11 days ago. Corduff, who lost to Inniskeen in the championship semi-finals, have now gone a ...

Monaghan clubs had mixed fortunes in big championship games last weekend, with Clontibret losing, Inniskeen winning and Monaghan Harps ladies managing both in less than 48 hours. by COLM SHALVEY The county’s wait for a first AIB Ulster Club Senior Football Championship title since 1991 goes on after Clontibret lost their semi-final against Slaughtneil in Omagh last Sunday. Clontibret were as experienced as any of the four teams in the semi-finals a wide-open championship minus big hitters like Crossmaglen, Ballinderry and Glenswilly – having themselves already knocked out Kilcoo and St. Gall’s ...

By MARY GRIMES When the annals of ladies football in Monaghan are next explored in depth, the saga of the 2014 Ulster IFC will doubtless command more than a few paragraphs. Last Friday night the whole sorry episode concerning the win that wasn’t the win but that surely was a win in the provincial decider played a couple of weeks ago was thankfully put to bed. The Harps once again crossed swords with Donegal champions Four Masters for the right to be acclaimed intermediate champions. The match was a replay of the teams’ initial ...

CLONTIBRET V SLAUGHTNEIL champions, Slaughtneil Robert Emmets meet in Healy Park, Omagh, on Sunday to see which of them will contest this year’s final AIB Ulster Club Senior Football Championship Final against either St Eunan’s of Donegal or the Tyrone champions Omagh St. Enda’s. Clontibret last reached the final of the Ulster club senior football championship 20 years ago this year, back in 1994 when they lost narrowly to Derry’s side Bellaghy in Armagh. Slaughtneil on the other hand are seeking to reach their first ever Ulster club final and they will ...

Two days after his sensational try against South Africa last Saturday which saw Ireland beat the team rated the second best in the world Tommy Bowe scored again at the Official Launch of his new clothing brand XV Kings “Tommy Bowe Designs. “The Morrison Hotel Dublin where the event was held was packed to capacity with the media, Tommy‘s family and invited friends. The stunning collection of quality garments has been designed, sourced and distributed from his beloved county Monaghan. Tommy told reporters “The work taken to get this Project off the ...

By Colm Shalvey Donaghmoyne await the winners of Sunday’s rescheduled game between Corduff and Clones in the Monaghan Electrical Intermediate Football League, after they gained a small measure of revenge on their rivals Inniskeen last Sunday. Donaghmoyne had lost to their neighbours by a single point in the IFC Final last month, but they turned the tables in this one to keep their promotion hopes alive. The lead changed hands several times in a topsy-turvy game, where a strong Donaghmoyne start fell away before half-time, with Paul and Ronan Meegan helping hosts ...

BY KEVIN CARNEY The Monaghan Harps ladies football fraternity will know today (Thursday) whether they are still part of the race to claim the 2014 All-Ireland club IFC title. At the time of going to print, the Central Council of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association was deliberating on a controversy which has engaged gaels in counties Monaghan and Donegal over the past couple of weeks. Delegates from all around the country were due to gather at Croke last night (Wednesday) to rule on an appeal lodged by Donegal champions Four Masters against ...

Castleblayney’s hurlers are back on the hunt for All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship honours following a gritty win over Na Magha in the Ulster Final. by PATRICK SMYTH Winning an Ulster title is something not only to savour but also one which presents opportunities for further glory. Reflecting on his team’s provincial title victory last weekend, Castleblayney Faughs’ boss Paul Hughes fingered his side’s fitness as central to their successful odyssey to the winner’s enclosure: “It’s a great feeling to have taken the Ulster club title again,” a delighted Hughes enthused after seeing ...