By Niall Gartland REIGNING Ulster Intermediate champions Down begin their campaign with a semi-final joust with Tyrone this Sunday – and they won’t need reminding of their last encounter with the Red Hands. Their new manager Colm Donnelly was part of the backroom team when the two teams met in Clones in an All-Ireland Intermediate […]
IT’S nine years since Omagh’s Cara McCrossan tasted Ulster Championship football but on Sunday she endured the full wrath of emotions as Tyrone got out of Kinawley by the skin of their teeth. Fermanagh led the Ulster Intermediate quarter-final tie by six points at one stage but in the end captain Aoibhinn McHugh crafted out a […]
By Shaun Casey DOWN captain Clara Mulvenna says the Mourne ladies aren’t looking too far ahead and are taking on a game-by-game approach to the season rather than eyeing up promotion from Division Three. Down got off to the perfect start with a two-point opening day win away to Limerick, 0-14 to 2-6, and will be keen […]
By Shaun Casey FOR the first time ever, Warrenpoint Ladies will compete in an Ulster final as they take on Downings of Donegal in Saturday’s Junior decider, and manager Brian Murphy says his side can’t wait to take to the field. The ladies team hasn’t been in existence that long but has gone from strength […]
DOWN’S Niamh King has been honoured with The Croke Park Hotel/LGFA Player of the Month award for June 2024. The Castlewellan player (19), was superb for the Mourne County as they progressed to the semi-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship. Niamh, a 2023 TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship winner, was a leading light for her […]
By Niall Gartland DOWN ladies have built up a head of steam as they bid to reach the All-Ireland Intermediate final for the first time since winning the competition outright in 2014. The Mourne girls endured an indifferent start to the season, losing their opening two league games, but since then they have embarked on […]
By Niall McCoy DOWN’S season has been a superb one to date with promotion from Division Three and an Ulster Intermediate title bagged, and they’ll be hoping to carry that form into the All-Ireland series as they travel to Redhills on Sunday for their Intermediate opener against Cavan. Caoibhe Sloan and Peter Lynch’s side are […]
By Shaun Casey DOWN survived a stunning second-half comeback from Monaghan to collect the Ulster Intermediate Championship title, to follow up on their Junior Ulster and All-Ireland success of last season. A Laoise Duffy goal at the start of the second period gave the Mourne ladies a ten-point lead, but Monaghan clawed their way back into […]
By Shaun Casey DOWN are getting used to the big days out battling for the top prizes, and this Sunday they travel to Clones in search of an Ulster Intermediate title. Monaghan, playing on their home patch, stand in their way of earning back-to-back provincial crowns. The Mourne ladies collected the Ulster Junior crown last year […]
By Niall Gartland WITH zero points on the board after three rounds of action, Antrim boss Emma Kelly describes Sunday’s Division Three clash against neighbours Down as a ‘do or die’ clash for her team. Kelly is already worrying about the possibility of relegation to the bottom tier after their latest defeat, a desperately disappointing […]
