Articles in the GAA Category

Monaghan Harps GAA Club are helping a suicide-awareness group Pieta House, to stage their annual ‘Darkness into Light’ 5km walk/run in Monaghan in the early morning of Saturday, May 10. ‘Darkness into Light’, which is in its sixth year, starts at 4.15am and sees the participants start in the dark and finish after the sun rises, symbolising the work done by Pieta House, leading people from despair to hope. The event had nearly 400,000 participants at 20 locations last year and will have 40 venues this time, including London and ...

For seven of the Ulster counties, it’s still all to play for ahead of this weekend’s final round of fixtures. The eyes and ears of football fans (bar those in Cavan and Antrim) in the Red Hand province will remain focussed ’till the final whistles blow on the games this Sunday. For some counties in this neck of the woods, their destiny is in their own hands; others will be relying on a helping hand from others while, for others, it’ll be a case of looking further down the line as they ...

Monaghan 0-19 Laois 0-14 By JOHN GRAHAM MONAGHAN finished strongly, but in truth they needed to, to clinch victory in this NFL Division 2 encounter at Clones last Sunday. Malachy O’Rourke’s men finished strongly to keep their promotion drive firmly on track and they can now approach their final game with confidence that they can book their place in the division 2 final for the third time in six years and with that promotion to division 1 for next season. On the last two occasions that Laois had visited Monaghan they had been victorious and ...

Monaghan 1-17 Armagh 0-10 By JOHN GRAHAM A slicker, more clinical Monaghan kept their National Football League division 2 promotion drive on track when they proved too strong for Armagh in this thrilling encounter that was played in front of a crowd of 5,572 in the Athletic Grounds, Armagh, on Saturday evening last. Monaghan were full value for their victory and were not at all flattered by their double scores winning margin as they proved too adept for Armagh in practically every position although it was a game too where they did have ...

By Colm Shalvey For this weekend, attention diverts from Monaghan’s bid for promotion from Division Two of the Allianz Football League to club action, with the Senior, Intermediate and Football Leagues all getting underway. Four games in each division will be played between Saturday and Sunday, with 24 teams in action – one match in each grade has been postponed due to dual players’ involvement in the county senior hurlers’ Allianz League derby with Fermanagh. A number of teams have new managers in place for 2014, with a few big names going back ...

Monaghan kept their National Football League promotion bid on track in a topsy-turvy derby in Armagh last Saturday night. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan burst out of the starting blocks at the Athletic Grounds, kicking nine unanswered points in an utterly dominant first 23 minutes, only to lose their way in the 20 minutes either side of half-time before regaining their composure to pull clear again. Armagh appeared shell-shocked by Monaghan’s devastating start and a rout looked on the cards, but the hosts, spurred on by Ethan and Caolán Rafferty, eventually got ...

By JOHN GRAHAM The current Assistant Secretary of Monaghan County Board, Ailish McEntee, was honoured last weekend with a GAA Presidents Award for her outstanding service to the clubs and the Association in Monaghan. Ailish has given a lifetime of service to the GAA in Monaghan. She has served her club Sean MacDiarmada in a number of capacities but it was primarily for contribution at county committee level that she was the recipient of a President’s Award. She has served in a number of capacities at different levels of county administration, starting out ...

By Mary Grimes Tommy Kieran, new Chairperson of Monaghan Ladies Football Board, has expressed the hope that the Brendan Martin Cup will be the chief Guest of Honour at next year’s Monaghan Ladies Annual Awards night. Speaking in the wake of this year’s Annual Awards’ night which was held on Friday night last at Ballybay Pearse Brothers’ complex, the Carrickmacross Ladies clubman told the Northern Standard that winning the 2014 All-Ireland Ladies SFC title would be the county’s chief goal in the coming months. “Ladies football in Monaghan had a very successful year ...

By COLM SHALVEY Five youngsters from the Drumhowan club made history last weekend in Castlebar when they became the first team from Monaghan and only the second from Ulster to retain their All-Ireland title in over 40 years of Scór na nÓg. Drumhowan’s Scór na nÓg Instrumental Group of Eimear and Conor Quinn, Stephen and Colm McMahon and Finbarr Brennan won the All-Ireland last year in Derry and just over 12 months later, the same quintet were back to successfully defend their title. The Drumhowan group saw off opposition from Cork, Offaly ...

Donegal 2-11 Monaghan 0-10 By JOHN GRAHAM MONAGHAN slumped to a disappointing defeat, their first in the current NFL Division 2 campaign, when they proved no match for an in-form Donegal who showed a far greater appetite for the game throughout what was, a low key and at times scrappy contest in O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny on Sunday last. Donegal were much sharper than Monaghan, they were first to the ball, they dominated midfield, used possession well, were hungrier in all aspects of their play and much more economical and clinical in making and taking ...