By Barry O’Donnell INVALUABLE experience garnered on the Ulster stage will hopefully stand to Rock this weekend, joint manager Paul Coney believes. They take on Down champions Rostrevor on Saturday afternoon in Burren, fresh off the back of their breakthrough Tyrone Intermediate title triumph. It’s a new venture for Rock at this level but the […]
By Shaun Casey WHEN Rostrevor take the field at Burren on Saturday afternoon, it’ll be exactly three weeks since they defeated An Riocht in the intermediate decider by the minimum of margins. Having got their hands on the trophy for the first time since 2017, the management team gave the players a full week off […]
By Niall Gartland POMEROY skipper Kieran McGeary has a tidy way of explaining things. Rewind the clock a few months and the aftermath of Tyrone’s narrow All-Ireland Senior Championship quarter-final defeat to Kerry. Speaking after the game, he mused that “All the experts had ruled us out, and their own records wouldn’t be deadly against […]
Niall Gartland looks back at the Ulster JFC winners over the last decade… 2022 – Stewartstown Harps TYRONE club Stewartstown won the Ulster Junior Championship in hugely dramatic circumstances, overcoming a gallant Drumlane (Cavan) with a penalty shoot-out victory at Clones. It was a remarkable game of football throughout with Stewartstown triumphing in adversity after […]
FROM the first minute to the last, the 2008 All-Ireland Junior final was a house of pain for Rock midfielder Enda McWilliams. Having spent much of the season on the bench as a fresh-faced 17-year-old, McWilliams found out that he hadn’t made the squad for the Croke Park trip. His misery was further compounded when […]
The St Patrick’s men trailed 0-5 to 0-4 after a disappointing first half, but they improved considerably after the interval with Conor McCreesh and Ai
CATHAL McWilliams has pinpointed the moment that saved Rock’s season and ultimately led to their third Ulster final appearance in a decade
