Shaun Casey charts the Ulster clubs that have landed All-Ireland Senior Football Championship honours Crossmaglen (6) ULSTER’S most successful club at the top level, Crossmaglen, won six All-Ireland titles during a glorious 15-year period. Their first All-Ireland crown came in 1997, and they backed that up with a brace of titles in 1999 and 2000. […]
By Alan Rodgers NOTHING beats that feeling of euphoria following a big Championship victory. That was certainly the case around Ballygawley on Sunday, night into Monday as the players, management and supporters celebrated their marvellous Ulster Club success. It was one 22 years in the making and the club enjoyed marking just a third provincial-title triumph. Trips […]
LAST week I felt Errigal Ciaran had a chance but my main concern was that if Kilcoo shut the two Cannavan brothers down where would Errigal get there scores from. About five minutes into the game last Sunday, I knew that this game was there for the taking for Errigal if they could create a […]
It’s Ulster SFC final time and Niall Gartland takes a look at the players who have top-scored in this year’s competition. 1. Ruairi Canavan 0-16 (8f, 45) IT will be a major surprise if Errigal Ciaran forward Ruairi Canavan doesn’t finish as top scorer in this year’s Ulster Championship, though obviously that’s not his main […]
Ulster Club SFC final Kilcoo v Errigal Ciaran Sunday, BOX-IT Athletic Grounds, 3.30pm By Michael McMullan THERE were beaming lights from both Kilcoo and Errigal Ciaran as they booked their spot for Sunday’s showdown. Kilcoo banged five goals past a Scotstown team who edged the Magpies on their way to last year’s final. Advertisement For […]
Kilcoo have dominated the Down scene for 15 years and are bidding for another Ulster title on Sunday. It wasn’t always this way. In 2009, Gerard McEvoy lifted the O’Hare Cup to end a 72-year famine. He spoke with Michael McMullan… GERARD McEvoy’s three daughters know nothing only county final Sunday and the Frank O’Hare […]
By Niall Gartland PLAYER, chairman, manager – and now supporter. Mickey Harte was among the Errigal Ciaran contingent who ambled down to the Páirc Esler sod following their side’s victory over Clann Éireann in the Ulster Senior Championship semi-final. And understandably, they were in no major rush to head back to the car park. Harte’s seen […]
By Shaun Casey WHILE Darragh and Ruairi Canavan are the headline-grabbers in the Errigal Ciaran team and shared 0-11 of the side’s 0-14 tally in the semi-final victory over Clann Éireann, Kilcoo manager Karl Lacey insists the Tyrone champs aren’t just a two-man band. Kilcoo are aiming to collect their first Ulster title since 2021 […]
THWACK – it was the sort of challenge that would normally prompt nothing more than a few bruises, but in Niall Kelly’s case there was an exponentially worse outcome. Sustained during a league match in the height of last summer, the Errigal Ciaran footballer was rushed off to the Royal Victoria Hospital where he would […]
WE have had another extremely busy week, both on and off the playing fields. Let’s start away from the pitch as the news came through this week that all of the rules trialled earlier in the inter-provincial series will carry forward for all grades for 2025. If we are honest, we all thought that the […]
