By Niall Gartland EIGHT teams will be whittled down to four in this weekend’s Cavan Senior Championship quarter-finals – but there’s an abiding sense of déjà vu before a ball has been thrown in. Three of the quarter-finals are, in effect, rematches from recent group stage encounters and it’ll be interesting to see whether there’ll […]
By Niall Gartland THE bulk of league football has been played off at this stage in Cavan, but there’s still a fair amount of unfinished business at both ends of the table across the Divisions. The four teams that finished bottom of Division One and Two will be pitted in a relegation play-off series, with […]
By Niall Gartland BROTHERS Jude and Pat McNabb are in charge of Cavan club Ramor this year, and while it’s early days, so far things have been going according to plan for the natives of Trillick in County Tyrone. Pat McNabb was joint-manager of the Omagh CBS team that won last year’s MacRory and Hogan […]
By Michael McMullan FOUR Masters went one better than last year by winning the club’s first Ulster minor title on Monday in Belfast. It was a contrast to last season when they had the finish line in sight before Dungiven’s comeback left the Donegal champions as the bridesmaids on final day. Captain Callum McCrea said […]
By Michael McMullan THE first piece of silverware of 2024 will be hoisted into the Belfast sky on Monday. The minor footballers of Cavan Gaels and Four Masters are the envy of every other club in Ulster as their buses nose into the St Paul’s complex. Four Masters have never won the prestigious competition and […]
By Michael McMullan MAYOBRIDGE minors will need to improve on their quarter-final performance, insists joint manager Francie Poland. The Down champions were 1-7 to 1-5 winners over St Paul’s and now face Cavan Gaels on St Stephen’s Day (Shaw’s Road, 1pm). When St Paul’s hit their goal midway through the second half, Poland had the […]
By Mark McGoldrick IRVINESTOWN manager Shane McDermott is expecting a very difficult task when his side take on Cavan Gaels in the quarter-final of the St Paul’s Ulster Minor Club tournament. For the second year running, the St Molaise side will represent Fermanagh at the provincial competition, which will take centre stage at the St Paul’s GAA club […]
By Niall Gartland FORMER Cavan Gaels teammates Micheál Lyng and Seanie Johnston have been appointed to the helm of their senior men’s football team. Both men enjoyed glittering careers with the club during their playing days, Lyng winning nine senior championship medals and Johnston winning a remarkable ten. The pair managed Monaghan side Ballybay this […]
By Kieran Lynch THE Cavan Senior Football Championship throws in this weekend with all 12 teams in action. The format is a 12-team league table, in which each team will play four games to narrow the field down to eight. From there, the quarter-finals begin. First up are reigning champions Gowna, and they face Lacken […]
IT goes without saying that Cavan GAA has a distinguished past, and celebrating that fact is a dedicated new museum in the grounds of Kingspan Breffni. Officially opened last September by GAA President Larry McCarthy, the gallery is a tasteful flavour of all that has gone before – from the halcyon days when Cavan ruled […]
