AIMEE Mackin is set to miss out on the rest of Armagh’s season having suffered an ACL injury in Sunday’s Ulster final win over Donegal. Mackin top scored for the Orchard County on the day with 0-4 but left the playing field due to an injury midway through the second half. The three-time All-Star was […]
SUNDAY’S final was a fascinating study in winning and losing. I thought back to 1993 and what was in our minds throughout that season. The best way to describe it is that we were like the human cannonball at the circus. He climbs into the cannon. Gets shot out of it. Hits (hopefully) the safety net. […]
Ulster Senior Championship Final Armagh 0-17 Donegal 1-13 AET NIAMH Reel kept her cool to hit the winning point with her first touch as Armagh saw off Donegal in yet another epic battle in Sunday’s Ulster Senior Championship Final at St Tiernach’s Park, Clones. With the possibility of free kicks to determine this provincial decider, […]
By Michael McMullan DONEGAL minor boss Barry Ward is expecting a cracking game when they entertain Armagh in Saturday’s Ulster semi-final in Ballyshannon. Donegal earned home advantage after topping their group with Armagh needing to dust themselves down after losing to Derry to overcome Monaghan in the quarter-final. “Armagh are a quality team, they won […]
The dust has settled on the Ulster Championship with Donegal taking the title after another dramatic encounter. Michael McMullan names his team of the championship. 1 Shaun Patton (Donegal) IT’S hard to look past him despite the competition for his spot and missing out against Tyrone with injury. His kick-outs and control of the square […]
Compiled by Jackie Cahill THERE’S more provincial silverware up for grabs over the coming weekend – with finals scheduled in Leinster, Munster and Ulster. In the TG4 Munster Senior Final in Mallow on Saturday (4pm), Cork will look to make it five successive titles when they take on Kerry, a game that is preceded by […]
AFTER another weekend of action across all codes, here is our latest Gaelic Life Team of the Week. It took extra-time, every sinew and then penalties for Donegal to take an Ulster title against an Armagh team who offered so much. Tyrone u-20s continued their adventure, there was camogie final action with other Ulster teams […]
By Shaun Casey THE Armagh goalkeeping position has been the subject of much debate in recent seasons. If truth be told, the Orchard County struggled to find a permanent replacement for Paul Hearty after the Crossmaglen man’s retirement in 2012. In the years that followed, many men guarded the goals for Armagh, but none really […]
By Steven Poacher THIS Sunday we have an Ulster final that is a repeat of the Division Two National League final that saw Donegal defeat Armagh 0-15 to 0-14 in a passive enough encounter that only sprung to life with 15 minutes to go. It had looked as if Donegal were going to canter to […]
By Niall Gartland MONAGHAN manager Dermot Malone knows they have issues to iron out ahead of Saturday’s Ulster Championship quarter-final clash away to Armagh. Malone spearheaded Monaghan minor’s run to last year’s All-Ireland final, but the majority of that starting team have moved on and their current crop are something of a work-in-progress if their […]
