Articles in the Sports News Category

Monaghan now know their opponents for the first game of the Ulster Senior Football Championship defence after Tyrone beat Down in last Saturday’s preliminary round replay. by COLM SHALVEY After this Saturday’s round of club league games, it will be ‘all systems go’ for Malachy O’Rourke and co. in their preparations for June 15, when the familiar foes from Tyrone will again stand in Monaghan’s way. Monaghan haven’t beaten the Red Hand County in the championship since 1988 and they have lost to Mickey Harte’s teams five teams. The most recent of ...

By KEVIN CARNEY The increasingly popular Northern Standard Boys U18 Golf Championship is set to be expanded this year with news that players from outside of county Monaghan will be invited to participate in the competition. Since its genesis in 2012, the Championship has been confined to under 18 golfers living in county Monaghan but members of host club Rossmore Golf Club who devised the competition have decided to open their doors to the creme de la creme of young golfing talent in neighbouring counties. “Notices and literature relating to the competition will ...

Blackhill 1-13 Killeevan 0-06 By JOHN GRAHAM A stronger, sharper, more adept Blackhill got their championship campaign off to a winning start when they proved too strong for Killeevan in this low-key, scrappy and at times niggly contest in McKeown Park, Drumhowan on Saturday evening last. Blackhill reached the final of the junior football championship last year only to lose out to Emyvale after a replay, but on this display they laid down a marker that they intend to be involved at the business end of things in 2014 as well. Stronger in most areas, ...

Monaghan 3-12 Sligo 0-14 Monaghan bounced back from their disappointing performance against Donegal in Letterkenny a week previous to show that there is still character in the side as they played with more purpose and passion in this Rackard Cup relegation play-off. On the day they proved too adept for the Yeats County men and thoroughly deserved their victory that assures them that they will be competing in the 2015 version of the Nicky Rackard Cup courtesy of this seven points victory over Sligo at Sean O’Heslins Park, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, last Saturday ...

Monaghan Sports Partnership has been involved in supporting the Blackwater 10k event since its inception in 2008 and views the event as one of its flagship events within County Monaghan due to its vast scale and community involvement. The run and walk accommodates a huge turn out to North Monaghan and has the unique attraction of bringing people through Rossmore Forest Park – what is a very enjoyable (if somewhat challenging at times) walking / running route. Monaghan Sports Partnership strives to ensure that ‘partnership’ is at the heart ...

The Blackwater 10K has certainly become an annual fixture in Monaghan’s Recreational and Athletics Events Calendar as it continues to grow in entries each year. This large-scale community event initially was first held in 2008 as an initiative from Blackwater Regional Partnership Natural Resource Rural Tourism Project and nobody back then envisaged that it would continue to celebrate the success that it has become 7 years later. The great success has been made possible by the strong commitment of the organising committee and hard work by Monaghan Phoenix and Glaslough ...

The build up to the start of the Monaghan SFC is dominated by the game between Scotstown and Truagh following Scostown’s much publicised title victory last year. by JOHN GRAHAM ummer must be just around the corner as championship always dominates when the sun is highest in the sky. There is a little way to go to that time right now but the opening round of matches this weekend in the Gormley uPVC 2014 senior football championship will quicken the pulse and heighten expectations even predictions as to what this ...

Sean McDermotts 2-09 Corduff 2-07 By COLM SHALVEY SEÁN McDermotts moved out of the Intermediate Football League relegation zone with a two-point win at home to Corduff last Sunday. The lead and momentum swung a few times in an action-packed game, which saw the Seáns make a decisive burst inside the final quarter, led by a Brian McQuaid goal. Goal-scorers McQuaid and Damien Larkin were to the fore for the Seáns, along with Paddy Kieran and Noel Rice, while Declan Larkin, Jason Hand and Brendan McNally led Corduff’s challenge. It took less than a minute ...

Nicky Rackard Cup Donegal 3-26 Monaghan 0-15 HOLDERS Donegal cruised into the Nicky Rackard Cup quarter-finals thanks to a facile twenty points win over a make shift Monaghan in O’Donnell Park Letterkenny on Saturday afternoon last. Earlier in the day Monaghan looked to have forfeited the game when the Donegal camp received notice just before noon that their opponents weren’t traveling, for echoes of the still damaging Allianz Hurling league division 3A final of 2012 when Monaghan were forced to concede to Fingal. However, it wasn’t just as bad as that and later another ...

By John Graham There was no doubting that Monaghan was the top team from the province in April. The fact too that they beat Donegal would help put an end to the talk that last year’s Ulster championship victory over Donegal was a flash in pan as Monaghan were again worthy winners on the big stage. There can be no question as to the influence that Malachy O’Rourke has had since he joined Monaghan at the end of the 2011 season. To date, and he is only in his second year in ...