Articles in the GAA Category

By Mary Grimes Last Sunday saw our county seniors have a rare off-day as they went down by 0-9 to 0-12 to Mayo in round seven of the NFL. The county’s defeat at the weekend doesn’t however alter the fact that Monaghan have already qualified for the national league semi-final on April 27th next when they will meet Dublin. Meanwhile our county under 14s had no better luck than our seniors on Saturday last. The girls took on a very strong and well drilled Cavan side in round one of the competition and came ...

“Job done” would be the two words that sum up Monaghan’s Allianz National Football League Division Two win over Galway last Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan needed only to avoid a heavy defeat to secure a top-two place and the way other results went meant they would have been promoted regardless on their head-to-head record against Meath, but the way they dug out another win showed the character of this team. A highly-motivated Galway side, who needed a result to ensure they stayed up, had kicked three unanswered points to draw ...

Monaghan 0-13 Galway 0-12 By JOHN GRAHAM A draw would have been sufficient to ensure Monaghan’s promotion to division 1 and a place in the division 2 final for the third time in nine years but Paul Finlay put the icing on the cake for what has been a very rewarding league campaign when he clinched victory with a point two minutes into stoppage time after Galway had fought back to parity having been behind from the opening minutes of the match. Galway came to Clones with five points from their six outings and ...

Last weekend saw Monaghan handballers take home three all Ireland gold medals. Gavin Coyle from Bawn is now u/17 all Ireland champion. Conor Mc Donnell & Paul Cassidy from Harps and Tydavnet Handball Club respectively are now All Ireland Golden Masters doubles champions. As all handballers know, an “All Ireland Gold Medal” is the holy grail of handball and are not easy come by. Congratulations and a huge “WELL DONE” are extended to Gavin, Conor & Paul from Tydavnet Handball Club, Harps Handball Club, Bawn Handball Club, Mellans Handball Club, ...

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 ...