By Michael McMullan GLENULLIN’S target has always been to retain their intermediate title insists Paddy Bradley, who feels his side didn’t get the credit for taking the silver last year. The title was last defended by Faughanvale in 1998. With Covid, Derry’s recent championship restructure and promotion freeze, the door was open for Glenullin to […]
By Michael McMullan MARK Lynch is one of eight players from Banagher’s 2018 final win expected to be in their starting lineup on Sunday. Looking ahead to their final date with reigning champions Glenullin (Celtic Park, 1pm), the former Derry star is expecting a “brutal hard” encounter. Banagher came within a whisker of making the […]
AROUND this time of the year I could usually do a ‘cut and paste’ job re previous articles about how the county season has finished and about how the real action starts for 90 per cent of GAA folk around the country with the club championships. Twitter feeds are either full of club championship fixtures or league […]
TO say that Derry GAA is on the crest of a wave this week is an understatement. Having watched the minors beat Monaghan in Armagh on to win the All-Ireland on Sunday past, the attention now shifts to the seniors who take on Kerry on Sunday. While this column is generally reserved for a general […]
By Michael McMullan BALLINASCREEN have appointed a new senior football manager for the 2023 season. Glenullin man Michael O’Kane has taken over from a duo of Mark McCullagh and Mickey Gallagher who stepped aside at the end of 2022 after one year in charge. O’Kane has managed his native club in the past and has […]
THREE titles came to Ulster from last weekend’s All-Ireland Scór final in Castlebar. On Friday saw all eight Ulster Scór acts make the long journey west before a long day of activities commenced early on Saturday morning with soundchecks beginning for the solo singers at 8.30am and running through to lunch. Meanshile the Trath nc gCeist […]
It’s a busy weekend ahead for four Glenullin cousins. On Saturday they’ll dance at the All-Ireland Scór finals in Castlebar before running out at Celtic Park on Ulster Championship duty less than 24 hours later. Michael McMullan went to meet them… THE fluttering green and gold flag at the end of the lane lets you […]
By Niall Gartland GALBALLY skipper Aidan Carberry held aloft the Paddy Cullen Cup ago after a sensational victory over Edendork in the Tyrone Intermediate Championship three weeks ago, but the celebrations have been put on hold as they look ahead to Sunday’s provincial opener against Glenullin. The Pearses embarked on a memorable run in the […]
HAVING won a senior championship on 2007 and thoroughly enjoyed everything that comes with it I genuinely thought the days of the ‘Monday Club’ were behind me. In 2007 we had a fantastic Monday Club and for those of you who know Glenullin, our club is perfectly set up for it. We have a fantastic […]
By Michael McMullan UNREAL. It’s one word, but that’s how young Glenullin attacking ace Fearghal Close described the scenes of utter pandemonium after Sunday’s Derry intermediate final. The ‘Glen came back from five points down in the first quarter to level matters, with Close kicking two points, one with either foot. “We needed them to […]
