By Shaun Casey IT’S the final weekend of the group stages in Monaghan and for some of the teams competing for the Mick Duffy Cup, their entire season hangs in the balance. Group 1 is fairly straightforward, with only one game taking place. That is the meeting of Scotstown and Inniskeen in a repeat of […]
FOOTBALL MONAGHAN By Shaun Casey WITH two rounds of the group stages left in the Farney County, the competing teams are starting to jostle for positions as the knockout stages loom. Advertisement There is a three-way tie at the top of Group One with last year’s finalists Inniskeen and Scotstown along with the 2025 Intermediate Championship […]
10 YEARS AGO ARMAGH’S brilliant start to Division One continued apace as Ronan Clarke’s side made it three wins from three. Key to their 2-14 to 2-9 victory over Monaghan was teenager Aimee Mackin who finished with 1-5 to her name. The Orchard County, fresh in the top flight, conceded two goals in the opening […]
By Shaun Casey IT’S a busy build-up to county final day for Inniskeen. Attacker Donal Meegan ties the knot on Friday while John McEntee’s side take on Scotstown in the county final on Sunday afternoon and are aiming to claim championship gold for the first time since 1943. It’s perhaps not ideal preparation for the […]
By Shaun Casey FOR the 13th season on the trot, Scotstown will contest the Monaghan SFC final, and Damien McArdle has been the man climbing the steps and lifting the Mick Duffy Cup on behalf of the An Bhoth club for the last two years. Of those 12 previous finals, Scotstown have only lost out […]
Shaun Casey looks back on Inniskeen’s surge to All-Ireland Intermediate honours in 2006 IT may not have felt like it at the time, but relegation from the Senior division at the end of the 2004 season was a blessing in disguise for Inniskeen. While dropping back into Intermediate hurt, it provided the springboard for the […]
By Shaun Casey IN a repeat of last year’s county final, Inniskeen are hoping to make amends 12 months on for their three-point loss at the hands of Scotstown when the two sides clash in the second of Sunday’s semi-final showdowns. David McCague’s team regained their throne, having fallen in the 2022 final, bringing their […]
By Shaun Casey LAST season’s gut-wrenching defeat at the hands of Inniskeen has been a pain that has stuck with Castleblayney for a whole 12 months. One point was the difference in the 2023 decider, and ‘Blayney have the opportunity to avenge that defeat this weekend against the same opposition. That loss knocked Castleblayney into […]
THE draws for the 2024 Monaghan Championships have been made. Senior champions Scotstown, who reached the Ulster Club final last year and are currently top of the league, will once again begin the campaign as heavy favourites to continue their domination. They begin their title defence against Ballybay a repeat of the 2022 decider, which […]
By Shaun Casey LAST season’s beaten Monaghan finalists Inniskeen have retained the services of their manager John McEntee. McEntee led the club to their first Senior Championship final appearance since 1990, but they lost out to Oriel kingpins Scotstown. The 2002 All-Ireland Armagh winning centre half-forward has already tasted championship success in the Farney County […]
