Articles in the GAA Category

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 ...

BY COLM SHALVEY Sunday’s AIB All-Ireland Club Intermediate Football Championship Final will live long in the memory of all who were in Croke Park to see Truagh reach the Promised Land at the end of an eight-month championship campaign. An incredible game produced thrills and spills throughout, with some score-taking out of the top drawer. 3-30 of the total of 4-34 came from open play, with Truagh hitting a very impressive 2-19 from play, but the numbers don’t even tell half the story of a thriller which saw both teams create a ...

Truagh 2-21 Kiltane 2-13 BY COLM SHALVEY TRUAGH became the second Monaghan club to win the All-Ireland IFC when they won an epic final against Kiltane of Mayo at Croke Park last Sunday. Truagh conceded two goals in the first six minutes, but they rallied strongly to lead by four points at half-time, with Mark Counihan and Daniel McKenna, who hit 1-7 from play, finding the net. Truagh survived some nervy moments midway through an action-packed second half as Kiltane piled on the pressure, but after seeing their advantage cut to a point on two ...

New county team-manager John Morrisson and his charges experienced disappointment last weekend when their scheduled Tesco Homegrown NFL Round One fixture against Dublin was postponed. As the country got battered by strong winds and heavy rain, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to anyone that the pitch at Aughnamullen was sadly deemed unplayable. It is anticipated that the fixture will be re-scheduled for a later date, possibly the end of February or sometime in March. Laois are the opponents this coming weekend in Round 2 and with games with Monaghan being sometimes ...