All-Ireland SFC quarter-final Armagh v Monaghan Saturday, Croke Park, 6pm. Live on GAAGO By Niall McCoy Advertisement NICE neighbours, Monaghan and Armagh – but expect such friendliness to exit stage left when they meet in Saturday’s All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park. There is a spark there when these two meet, of course, but the rivalry […]
Dream debuts
Ryan O’Toole It was fairy-tale stuff from O’Toole. He ignored all his natural instincts that screamed to fist the ball over the bar. Instead, the Scotstown clubman fired the ball low and hard, between the legs of Tyrone ’keeper Niall Morgan, to secure a famous win for Vinny Corey’s men and see them through to […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Donegal are a wounded animal
THE Ulster championship continued to deliver last weekend with a pulsating encounter between old rivals Monaghan and Tyrone. The game was an absolute cracker that had everything you want from the game of football. This was a massive one for Vinny Corey and his players. When you consider their league campaign and the amount of […]
Monaghan midfielder Lavelle hails his side’s resilience
By Niall Gartland KILLIAN Lavelle says it’s embedded in the very DNA of Monaghan teams to never give up the ghost no matter what the circumstances, and their trademark resilience paid off last Sunday with a dramatic victory on Tyrone’s home patch. The Monaghan midfielder acknowledged that their first-half performance wasn’t anything worth writing home […]
O’Toole the saviour for Monaghan with last-gasp goal against Tyrone
Monaghan 2-17 Tyrone 1-18 RYAN O’Toole popped up with a dramatic late goal, on his championship debut no less, to seize victory for Monaghan in today’s Ulster Championship quarter-final against Tyrone at O’Neill’s Healy Park. The wing-back had the goal at his mercy, six minutes into stoppage time, but it still would have been the […]