BY DÁIRE BONNAR ST Eunan’s hurlers are just 60 minutes away from winning their first Ulster title as they go into the Junior provincial decider this weekend. It’s a huge game for the club and Conor O’Grady, who captained the Letterkenny men to the Munster Cup in 2021, is under no illusions of the task […]
By Niall Gartland COOTEHILL boss Michéal Boyle says his side are in bonus territory ahead of Sunday’s Ulster Junior Championship semi-final against Castleblayney. Before this season, they’d never so much as won a game in Ulster but now they’ve won two on the bounce with a preliminary round win over Killeavy backed up with a comprehensive […]
By Niall Gartland CASTLEBLAYNEY hurlers are firmly back on the wagon having slipped to a surprise defeat in the Monaghan Senior Hurling Championship final. They lost their first final in seven years when they fell narrowly short to Inniskeen, meaning that they’re in a sense demoted to the Ulster Junior Championship. But they boast a […]
By Niall Gartland STEELSTOWN ladies will be hoping to lay a few ghosts to rest in this Saturday’s Ulster Intermediate Championship semi-final against Castleblayney (Castleblayney, 2pm). This time last year there was a major controversy surrounding their semi-final encounter against Denn-Castlerahan that unfortunately painted the provincial ladies scene in a bad light. Their semi-final clash […]
By Shaun Casey NO one has won the Monaghan Senior Football Championship more times than Castleblayney, who top the roll of honour with 37 titles, but this summer, they’re hoping for intermediate success. ‘Blayney were relegated from the top tier last season but with a league decider to look forward to and the upcoming Intermediate […]
WHEN Sétanta was crowned Cú Chulainn, surely even he himself didn’t know what he had let himself in for. His trusty camán and sliotar, enough to defeat the mighty hound of Culann. Let the magic begin, the self-proclaimed greatest game on Earth, and all the rest of it. Lovely hurling. They say he was born […]
Name: Jodie McQuillan. Age: 19. Teams played for: Castleblayney Faughs, Monaghan and UCD. Earliest GAA memory? Playing with the boys from u-6. Advertisement Which team-mate has been the most inspirational and why? Amanda Casey-Finnegan. I always looked up to her growing up and she took me under her wing when I joined the county panel. […]
currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Junior Club Championship semi-final Naomh Abán 0-12 Castleblaney Faughs 0-7 By Anthony Newman IT was the end of the line for Castleblayney as Allanagh Hoare scored 0-3 from play and Cork side Naomh Abán got through to the currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Junior Club Championship Final in Sunday’s semi-final at Páirc Íosagáin, Ballyvourney. Advertisement Grace Murphy […]
By Niall Gartland THE Castleblayney ladies are on their travels – again. Last weekend they traipsed to the Netherlands – not your usual venue for a game of football – to take on Belgian side Craobh Rua in the All-Ireland Junior Championship quarter-finals. It was a gruelling weekend right from the word go, when they […]
Compiled by Jackie Cahill THE race for the 2022 currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Ladies Club Football Championship titles will be whittled down to six teams over the weekend. CurrentAccount.ie All Ireland Junior Club Championship – Semi Finals – Sunday 1.30pm Naomh Abán (Cork) v Castleblayney Faughs (Monaghan), Páirc Íosagáin, (New Pitch) Advertisement IN a low-scoring Munster Final, Cork side […]
