Articles in the Sports News Category

Sunday saw local Glaslough Harrier Conor Duffy cap a great week when he won the fourth running of the Mc Mahons Supervalu 5K in Castleblayney , earlier in the week Conor had been chosen  to represent Ireland at the 21st SPAR European Cross Country Championships which takes place in Samokov, Bulgaria on Sunday December 14th. The race which is fast becoming one of the best races in the North East was packed with a quality field with thirty five clubs been represented on the day as well as a host of ...

Inniskeen fell short in their Ulster Club Intermediate Football Championship Final at the weekend, while Scotstown and Donaghmoyne lifted major Monaghan league titles. by COLM SHALVEY Inniskeen’s bid to win a second AIB Ulster Club Intermediate Football Championship ended when they lost out to a strong Warrenpoint side in last Sunday’s final at Armagh’s Athletic Grounds. Inniskeen were able to bring Dónal Meegan and Joe Butler back into the team after they missed their semi-final win over Derrylin, but Ronan Meegan was again on the bench, although he went on to ...

By KEVIN CARNEY God be with the days Ciaran Lavery had a handicap that the good burghers playing golf out at Rossmore G.C could take pot shots on a day borrowed from Siberia. Young Lavery used to play off 0.0 not so long ago but these days he’s playing golf with the professionals. Accordingly, he hasn’t got a handicap ‘cause as the rules state, he had to forfeit his in going professional. However, to keep in the mix with the best of his up-and-coming peers in these islands, he needs the body golf to ...

The County Final of the Acorn Life sponsored Scór na nÓg took place in Corcaghan Community Centre on Friday evening last November 28th. The capacity crowd was treated to and fully enjoyed a great nights entertainment and in the words of Oifigeach Cultura Seamus McElwain “great credit is due to all the performers who without exception gave performances worthy of an All Ireland Final” . Fear a Tī Mackie Rooney kept the show moving briskly. However last Friday’s final also marked Mackie and Pauline Rooney’s stepping back from their long association with ...

Inniskeen bid to win the AIB Ulster Club Intermediate Football Championship for the second time when they contest Sunday’s final against Warrenpoint from Down at Armagh’s Athletic Grounds. by COLM SHALVEY Inniskeen, who won this competition in 2005 before going on to lift the All-Ireland IFC title the following March, went on to spend four years in senior football. They were relegated in 2009 and again in 2011 – sandwiching their 2010 Intermediate League success – but they have found their way back to this stage again after a six-game ...

St Macartan’s      1-11 St Mary’s                 1-06 By COLM SHALVEY St. Macartan’s College ended a 37-year wait when they won the Rannafast Cup Final against St. Mary’s, Magherafelt last Friday night. This final, played at the Queen’s University Dub Arena, which was in immaculate condition despite constant rain, saw the Sem dominate and run out fully deserving winners, with eight players getting on the scoresheet. The Monaghan team should have been ahead at half-time even after playing against the wind and they took charge after the ...

Soccer in Clones is to get a €200,000 financial windfall. Funding to this amount was announced for Ireland’s oldest soccer club by Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring last Thursday evening for the construction of dressing rooms at the club’s newly developed grounds in the heart of the border town. Minister Ring commented that since coming to office, he had made a special allocation each year to specific sporting disciplines. They have included rugby, boxing, athletics and swimming pools. “I am now pleased to be able to allocate €1.2 million in ...

By Colm Shalvey Donaghmoyne and Corduff will contest this Sunday’s Monaghan Electrical Intermediate Football League Final, while Clontibret and Scotstown will battle it out for the right to play Castleblayney in the County Monaghan Group of Credit Unions Senior Football League decider. Corduff held off a late charge from Clones last Sunday to qualify for this Sunday’s IFL Final, where they will play Donaghmoyne, who edged out Ulster Club IFC finalists Inniskeen in their league semi-final 11 days ago. Corduff, who lost to Inniskeen in the championship semi-finals, have now gone a ...

By MARY GRIMES When the annals of ladies football in Monaghan are next explored in depth, the saga of the 2014 Ulster IFC will doubtless command more than a few paragraphs. Last Friday night the whole sorry episode concerning the win that wasn’t the win but that surely was a win in the provincial decider played a couple of weeks ago was thankfully put to bed. The Harps once again crossed swords with Donegal champions Four Masters for the right to be acclaimed intermediate champions. The match was a replay of the teams’ initial ...

CLONTIBRET V SLAUGHTNEIL champions, Slaughtneil Robert Emmets meet in Healy Park, Omagh, on Sunday to see which of them will contest this year’s final AIB Ulster Club Senior Football Championship Final against either St Eunan’s of Donegal or the Tyrone champions Omagh St. Enda’s. Clontibret last reached the final of the Ulster club senior football championship 20 years ago this year, back in 1994 when they lost narrowly to Derry’s side Bellaghy in Armagh. Slaughtneil on the other hand are seeking to reach their first ever Ulster club final and they will ...