Ahead of Sunday’s blue ribbon showdown, Niall Gartland looks back at some of the highlights from Ulster finals over the last decade 2025: Oisin Conaty leveller FIRST of all, what a game of football – for the fourth year running, the Ulster final went to extra-time and it was holders Donegal who repeated their previous year’s victory […]
Ulster SFC final preview Armagh v Monaghan Sunday, Clones, 4.15pm Referee: Paddy Neilan By Michael McMullan IN an era when teams thrive on being written off and the edge that goes with it, hunger is always the sweetest of sauces. Advertisement When the final whistle blows in Clones on Sunday evening, there will be an […]
The Ulster Championship kicks into action with Sunday’s showdown between Armagh and Tyrone. Michael McMullan takes a look why it remains one of the best competitions in the calander. THERE is just something about Clones. Not everybody gets it, but Ulster Gaels, they just know. It’s a step back in time. A lick of paint […]
AIDAN McFarland was voted as last week’s Player of the Week. He stared as Largy College Clones landed All-Ireland glory. 15 AIDAN MCFARLAND Largy College Player of the Match as the Monaghan college claimed the All-Ireland D title. WATCH: Largy College Clones were crowned the Masita All-Ireland Post Primary School D Football Champions on Sunday […]
AS we move closer to Christmas Day and the temperature is starting to fall, the average temperature is around ‘Two Degrees’……or so it was in Glenullin last Monday. Even though it’s 11 days since my own club’s victory in the Ulster Intermediate Championship final and I usually try to look forward in my columns, I […]
By Michael McMullan REWIND the clock 14 years. It’s summer in Clones. Eoin Bradley is hanging off the crossbar. His run and finish to the net, in a 1-5 tally, put the final nail in Armagh’s coffin. It was an Ulster semi-final and he was on fire but it was his last game at the iconic […]
CLONES will host both All-Ireland Ladies JFC semi-finals later this month. Ulster champions Antrim will face Sligo in the second game as they bid to add an All-Ireland to their and league successes this season. They finished the group stages with a 8-16 to 3-7 win over Carlow at the weekend. TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship […]
Niall Gartland charts the counties who have traditionally fared best on the provincial front Kerry (86 Munster titles) LEADING the way with the most provincial titles of any county is – no big surprises here – Kerry. While Cork were dominant in the early stages of the competition, winning six Munster titles in the 1890s, it wasn’t long […]
THE championship action was in full flow last weekend with silverware up for grabs on different fronts. Here is our selection of the star players from games involving Ulster teams. 1 Ethan Rafferty Armagh Grew into a thrilling Ulster final clash against Donegal. Hit a mammoth two-point free in extra-time. Advertisement 2 DEARBHAIL DOBBIN Antrim […]
By Michael McMullan ARMAGH Ladies won their fifth Ulster title in six seasons on Saturday but Blaithin Mackin said it hasn’t always been rosy in the garden. She recalls the earlier years of her career when the Orchard County were on the other side of results and Donegal were top of the pops in Ulster. […]
