Articles in the GAA Category

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 ...

Acorn Life Scor Sinsir Finals The county finals of The Acorn Life sponsored Scor Sinsir took place in the Tullycorbet Community Centre on Friday night last, February 21st where a packed house was treated to and enjoyed a great nights competition and entertainment.Eleven clubs in all took part in the 2014 Scor Sinsir: Aughnamullen, Killeevan, Doohamlet, Inniskeen, Scotstown, Emyvale, Truagh, Sean McDermotts, Ballybay, Castleblayney Hurling Club and Castleblayney Faughs. Mary Lennon was a very capable Bean an Tī . The winners on the night were: Rince Foirne: Scairbh na gCaorach (Enyvale), Amhránaïocht Aonar: ...

Danske Bank Ulster Colleges MacRory Cup Quarter Final St Patrick’s 3-07 St Macartan’s 2-04 By JOHN GRAHAM SAINT Macartan’s College’s MacRory Cup famine will move into a 59th year after a disappointing quarter-final defeat against holders St. Pat’s, Maghera in Armagh last Friday night. Having won the MacCormack Cup late last year, hopes were raised that an experienced Sem team could bridge the long gap, but they failed to hit those heights in a fairly scrappy game. The north-Monaghan school had been prolific throughout the league section, but they managed just three scores in each half ...

Monaghan 1-12 Roscommon 1-08 By COLM SHALVEY MONAGHAN got off the mark in the Allianz Hurling League with an excellent win over Roscommon at the Pádraig Pearses club grounds last Sunday. Having let a decent lead slip in the closing stages of their opening game at home to Longford, Monaghan were clear underdogs against a Roscommon side who had made a winning start and who have held the edge in the counties’ recent meetings, but the visitors ripped up the form book with a much-improved performance. Monaghan were only behind once for less than three ...

Plenty of football for Monaghan’s players ahead of Sunday week’s Allianz NFL clash with Donegal. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan’s senior footballers have another weekend free of fixtures as they prepare for Sunday week’s Allianz National Football League Division Two showdown with Donegal in Letterkenny, but Malachy O’Rourke will again be keeping his fingers crossed this weekend. Colin Walshe, Kieran Hughes and Rory Beggan were all in inter-provincial action last Sunday, along with Conor McManus, when they helped Ulster to a high-scoring extra-time win over Leinster. The former trio, along with UCD’s Ryan ...

Monaghan 2-13 Cork 0-13 By MARY GRIMES REIGNING All Ireland senior champions Cork (with full points from their first two fixtures of 2014) were forced to play second fiddle (0-13 to 2-13) to John Morrison’s Monaghan ladies in a pulsating round three NFL tie last weekend. In exacting a small measure of revenge for last year’s Croke Park defeat, Monaghan showed a much-changed line-out but still proved the masters on the day. Team-manager Morrison had no less than five Monaghan players making their debut against the Cork ladies with Charlotte Brady, Joanne Geogheghan, Anita Newell, ...

BY John Graham y their deeds we will know them and by their achievements they will be remembered, could well sum up the feelings of the members of the Truagh Gaels club and indeed all of the people of the parish of Errigal Truagh after their team scaled the heights of hitherto unprecedented success on Sunday last by clinching the All Ireland club intermediate football championship title. Sunday February 9th 2014 is a date that will be emblazoned on the history of Truagh Gaels as that was the day on ...