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The bearpit that is Austin Stack Park is Monaghan’s next pit stop. The seniors’ tilt with Kerry this weekend has all the makings of being a watershed encounter for Malachy O’Rourke’s troops. Being back in the NFL’s top flight has presented all sorts of opportunities for the Monaghan players. On Sunday next, the opportunity to turn the Kingdom over in Tralee will present an inspiring vista for Monaghan. Kerry only beat Donegal last time out on the same ground by two points. The kings of Gaelic football are ripe for toppling. Kerry’s 2-13 ...

Monaghan go into Sunday’s Allianz NFL Div One semi-final rematch with Dublin seeking to atone for last weekend’s disappointment. by COLM SHALVEY Sunday’s loss to the holders was a first league defeat for Monaghan at St. Tiarnach’s Park under Malachy O’Rourke and a first since the Dubs last won there, by the narrowest of margins, in March 2011; almost 1,500 days ago. Over 10,000 supporters, including a big away contingent, watched Monaghan come back to earth after their win over Kerry, although they still finished third in the table. Monaghan ...

By Kevin carney Notwithstanding the palpable sense of foreboding that hung over St. Tiarnach’s Park at the final whistle last Sunday, there’ll be nobody in the Monaghan camp reaching for the panic button anytime soon. All belonging to the Oriel can bet on their favourites staying calm, composed and compact ahead of the county’s NFL sem-final meeting with the Dubs for it’s been clear for quite a while now that O’Rourke and co. don’t do panic even when the air around them is clogged with the dust of a defence ...

Dublin 1-22 Monaghan 1-11 A stronger, hungrier, Dublin put Monaghan ruthlessly to the sword to book their place in the Allianz league semi finals when they proved too strong and too potent in practically every aspect of their play for an out of sorts, and at times lethargic Monaghan in this disappointing final round game in Clones on Sunday last. Make no mistake about it Dublin were totally deserving winners, they got off to a flying start and their slick passing movements repeatedly tore Monaghan to shreds with the result that this ...

Clones AC Wow, Denise Toner lived out a childhood dream of representing Ireland at international level and boy did she do it in style, as Thursday 26th March will go down as a red letter day in her career for what she achieved in the Torun, Poland. Having been an excellent juvenile athlete in her early teens, Denise gave up the sport to play Gaelic Football. Having got married and had a family she returned to running after the birth of her third son in late 2010 and how things have ...

Monaghan 1-11 Kerry 0-10 THEY are still the Kingdom but on Sunday last in Austin Stack Park, Tralee, they lacked the power as a resilient Monaghan ultimately took all the glory as they completely outplayed the home side in a scintillating second-half to take their first league points against Kerry since their victory in Clones back in February 1988 and their first win on Kerry soil since March 1987 when Monaghan triumphed in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney. Make no mistake about it though, this was a thoroughly deserved victory for a Monaghan team ...

Monaghan secured their Allianz National Football League Division One status and moved withing touching distance of a league semi-final place. by COLM SHALVEY Kerry were still without some star names, but they included 11 players who featured in last year’s All-Ireland final and also brought players of the calibre of Tommy Walsh, Fionn Fitzgerald, Darran O’Sullivan and Marc Ó Sé off the bench. To take away from a fine Monaghan effort would do them a disservice, as they were fully deserving of a first win over the Kingdom since 1988 and ...

Allianz National Hurling League Division 3A Final This Saturday Monaghan and Tyrone clash for the second time in Division 3A of the Allianz Hurling league when the sides meet in the divisional final in Keady at 300pm. It was generally felt that the recent 2020 Hurling Committee report contained little as far as the euphemistically referred to weaker counties are concerned, and that can only be added to by the decision to stage this division 3A final at a small club ground as opposed to a ground that enjoys County ground ...

You can’t say we didn’t warn y’all. Last month in this parish we ran with a trailer for the upcoming Farney Golf Challenge and reminded all-comers about what the wise owls say about the early bird(y) and all that. Well folks the worm is about turn. In fact, with over 100 already signed up to play in next June’s event, time is running out for everyone else to get their names on the teamsheet. The event is limited to the first 180 golfers. The opening day of the Challenge will take place ...

Monaghan 0-15 Derry 1-08 By JOHN GRAHAM PLAYING with fourteen men for the final eight minutes of the first half and finishing with thirteen players proved a bridge too far for Derry as Monaghan built in momentum and in the end won with something to spare at the end of this entertaining if never spectacular Ulster Uner-21 Football Championshp game played in chilly and greasy conditions in Inniskeen last Wednesday night. Monaghan’s preparations had been the most meticulous for a number of years, taking part in both the Hastings Cup, where they reached the ...