By Niall Gartland RAMOR are in pole position to finish top of the pack in the Division One, and whatever happens in their final-round fixture against bottom-placed Lacken this Friday night, they have a league semi-final in the pipeline. Jude and Pat McNabb are in their second season in charge of the Virgina-based team and they’re […]
Daly set for another season at Crosserlough
By Niall Gartland RYAN Daly and Stephen Beattie will remain in charge of Crosserlough having steered the team to this year’s Cavan Senior Championship title in their debut season at the helm. The Tyrone natives will look back fondly on 2024, having engineered their run to Senior Championship honours, and they were arguably unlucky not […]
Crosserlough making up for lost time
By Michael McMullan THE Crosserlough players are making up for lost time after Sunday’s win over Ramor United secured the club’s 11th title. Their last came in 2020, during Covid-19, when they felt many on the outside put an asterisk beside their title There was also the restricted access with a limited number of match […]
McNabb expects a close contest as Breffni decider takes on Tyrone tinge
By Niall Gartland THERE’S a prominent Tyrone theme running through Sunday’s Cavan Senior Championship final between Ramor and Crosserlough. Crosserlough are led on the line by two Tyrone natives – Carrickmore’s Ryan Daly and Eskra man Stephen ‘Archie’ Beattie. Daly managed Carrickmore to a Tyrone Senior Championship final appearance in 2022, where they lost narrowly to […]
Cavan Senior Championship quarter-finals down for decision
By Niall Gartland EIGHT teams will be whittled down to four in this weekend’s Cavan Senior Championship quarter-finals – but there’s an abiding sense of déjà vu before a ball has been thrown in. Three of the quarter-finals are, in effect, rematches from recent group stage encounters and it’ll be interesting to see whether there’ll […]
It’s still all to play for in the Breffni County
By Niall Gartland THE bulk of league football has been played off at this stage in Cavan, but there’s still a fair amount of unfinished business at both ends of the table across the Divisions. The four teams that finished bottom of Division One and Two will be pitted in a relegation play-off series, with […]
It’s early days at Ramor says Pat McNabb
By Niall Gartland BROTHERS Jude and Pat McNabb are in charge of Cavan club Ramor this year, and while it’s early days, so far things have been going according to plan for the natives of Trillick in County Tyrone. Pat McNabb was joint-manager of the Omagh CBS team that won last year’s MacRory and Hogan […]
Missing men curtailing Ramor’s attacking threat
By Shaun Casey INJURIES have taken their toll on Cavan champions Ramor United this season, but they’ve had enough to reach the last four of the championship where they’ll now face Killygarry on Sunday afternoon. Attacking aces in the form of Sean McEvoy, who has gone to America and James Brady, currently sidelined having torn […]
Previews: Crucial weekend in the Cavan Club Championships
CAVAN SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND THREE LARAGH UNITED V MULLAHORAN Friday, Kingspan Breffni, 8pm LARAGH United are having an excellent season and were pipped at the posts by one of the leading contenders for the senior championship, Gowna, last weekend. They can take a big step towards the quarter-finals if they defeat Mullahoran this Saturday. Mullahoran […]
Ramor learning lessons of lockdown
The Virginia-based outfit won the Cavan Senior Championship for the fourth time in their history in 2016