CAVAN club Crosserlough were the winners of the Ulster GAA Healthy Club Award, presented in association with Ulster Independent Clinic, at the recent 2024 O’Neill’s Ulster GAA Awards held in Canavan’s, Co. Tyrone. The club are a very active healthy club within their county and their Health & Wellbeing committee links closely with the county […]
By Michael McMullan PLENTY of water will pass under the bridge before the promotion spots are set in stone, Cavan are at least in the early conversation. That’s where they want to be. Then it’s about eying the steps forward. Last season was a relegation story to the third tier for the Breffni Blues. It’s more […]
By Niall Gartland RYAN Daly and Stephen Beattie will remain in charge of Crosserlough having steered the team to this year’s Cavan Senior Championship title in their debut season at the helm. The Tyrone natives will look back fondly on 2024, having engineered their run to Senior Championship honours, and they were arguably unlucky not […]
By Shaun Casey AFTER a four-week break following their county final victory over Burren, Ceilum Doherty and Kilcoo have recharged the batteries and are ready to go once again ahead of the Ulster Championship campaign. The Magpies have been the dominant force in the Mourne County for a fair while now and continued that trend […]
By Niall Gartland CARRICKMORE native Ryan Daly has enjoyed an immensely successful first season in charge of Cavan club Crosserlough, who have earned themselves a crack at Kilcoo in Saturday’s Ulster Senior Club Championship quarter-final at Páirc Esler in Newry. Ryan is a dyed-in-the-wool Carrickmore man and led the club to a Tyrone Senior Championship appearance […]
Newbridge are Derry SFC champions for the first time in 35 years and Niall Gartland looks at other clubs who ended a long wait Creggan Kickhams (87 years) ANTRIM club Creggan Kickhams waited a whopping 87 years for their third Antrim Senior Championship title. For decades upon decades, 1943 and 1954 stood side-by-side as their […]
By Michael McMullan THE Crosserlough players are making up for lost time after Sunday’s win over Ramor United secured the club’s 11th title. Their last came in 2020, during Covid-19, when they felt many on the outside put an asterisk beside their title There was also the restricted access with a limited number of match […]
By Niall Gartland THERE’S a prominent Tyrone theme running through Sunday’s Cavan Senior Championship final between Ramor and Crosserlough. Crosserlough are led on the line by two Tyrone natives – Carrickmore’s Ryan Daly and Eskra man Stephen ‘Archie’ Beattie. Daly managed Carrickmore to a Tyrone Senior Championship final appearance in 2022, where they lost narrowly to […]
Crosserlough men look ahead to Sunday’s Cavan senior football final. Dig deep and they are a thriving club across three codes. Michael McMullan chatted with club Chairman Adrian O’Reilly “IT resembled a contest between 42 dangerous and ferocious wire-haired lunatics.” That’s how the first recorded Crosserlough Gaels game was depicted. Their opponents were Killinkere. It […]
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 […]
