Fixtures: Saturday, May 28: SFL v Castleblayney (Away) at 7pm; Under-12 FL Division One v Castleblayney (Away) at 12pm; Under-12 FL Division Five v Castleblayney (Away) at 1.15pm; JFC: Oram v Scotstown at Gavan Duffy Park at 6.30pm

Sunday, May 29: Under-14 FL Division One v Donaghmoyne (Home) at 12pm

Tuesday, May 31: Under-14 FC Division Five v Latton (Away) at 7.30pm

 

Monaghan Harps Lotto: Numbers 1, 4, 7 and 24. Jackpot of €5,300 not won. Residual prizes: €100 Fergal Duffy c/o Barry Sullivan; €40 Conor O’Neill c/o Paddy Donnelly; €40 Patricia McCann c/o Paddy Donnelly; €40 Louise Fitzpatrick c/o Brian O’Sullivan (Hurling Club). Jackpot for Sunday, May 29 is €5,400 and Ann and Adrian Trappe are on duty. Lotto draw takes place in our clubhouse every Sunday night. All welcome.

 

Golf Classic: Our 2016 Golf Classic will take place at Rossmore Golf Club on Friday, June 10. Thanks to the Classic’s main sponsors, the Hillgrove Hotel and Barry Healy & Company Solicitors. Anyone who wishes to enter a team (€160), or sponsor a tee or green (€100) is asked to contact Fergus Coyle (086 8502015), Harry Dwyer (086 2400120) or Kevin Treanor (087 2591411). All support is greatly appreciated.

 

Seniors: Our senior footballers have a league game away to Castleblayney this Saturday evening at 7pm. We have been drawn against Blayney in Round 1B of the Senior Football Championship.

 

Reserves: We qualified for the RFC O’Duffy Cup semi-finals with a 4-10 to 2-6 win at home to Ballybay last Friday. Some good scores by Paddy Connolly, Liam Hahessy, Dean Fanning and Éimhín Morahan had us 1-6 to 1-4 up at half-time, while goals from Shane Coyle, Paddy and Éimhín and points by Aodhán Óg McAnespie and Nicholas Treanor saw us pull away in the second half.

Team and scorers: Darragh Hannon; Aidan Connell, Robbie Moyna, David Lowry; John Mulligan, Aodhán Óg McAnespie (0-1), James McKenna; Éimhín Morahan (Capt., 1-2), Shane Coyle (1-0); Conor Forde, Nicholas Treanor (0-1), Francis Lynch; Liam Hahessy (0-1), Paddy Connolly (2-4), Dean Fanning (0-1).

Subs: Niall Treanor for Connell, Dylan McKenna for Forde, Niall Greenan for Lynch, Colm Shalvey for Hahessy, Paul Rushe for Fanning, Conor Devlin.

The O’Duffy Cup semi-final sees us travel to Truagh on Saturday week, June 4.

 

Minors: Our minor footballers fell to a narrow defeat (3-8 to 2-10) against St. Patrick’s in Ballybay last Tuesday in the final game before the exam break. We have been drawn to play Magheracloone in the quarter-finals of the Minor Football Championship. Good luck to all involved in the Leaving Cert exams in the next few weeks.

 

U-16: Our Under-16 footballers continued their winning ways away to Carrickmacross last Thursday. A determined effort in a competitive game saw our lads win by 4-10 to 3-9.

 

U-14: Our Under-14 Division One team are due to host Donaghmoyne this Sunday at 12 noon, while our Division Five team enter their championship away to Latton next Tuesday at 7.30pm.

 

U-12: The Under-12 Football Leagues continue with a double-header away to Castleblayney on Saturday: Division One at 12 noon, Division Five at 1.15.

 

Good luck: To the Harps Ladies Club with the Abbey Fanning Sevens Tournament at Gavan Duffy Park this Saturday. Best wishes also to Shane McMahon and the Monaghan minor footballers in their Ulster MFC quarter-final against Down in Clones on Sunday evening.

 

JFC: We host a Junior Football Championship game between Oram and Scotstown on Saturday evening at 6.30. All help appreciated.

 

Membership: Registration fees (€20 for adults, €50 for a family) for 2016 are overdue and must be paid as soon as possible. All players and parents of juveniles are asked to ensure that their membership is paid.

                                                                                        

Cúl Camp: We will once again host a Kellogg’s Monaghan GAA Cúl Camp from July 11-15. Registration is open online now – please book before the end of May to guarantee receiving kit and backpack during the camp.

 

Gavan Duffy Park: The refurbished Monaghan Harps clubhouse is available to book for functions. Contact Jimmy Croarkin on 087 1249635 or Pádraig Callan on 087 4515206 for more information. Anyone looking to book the clubhouse for meetings, functions, etc. is asked to please give a week’s notice for convenience.

 

 

Hurling:

 

Juveniles: Training for all juvenile age groups continues every Sunday at 12pm in Rooskey.

 

U-14s: The U-14s followed up last week’s excellent win over Cootehill with another team performance and fine victory at home to Lisbellaw on Monday evening on a 6-5 to 1-3 scoreline. Six players got on the scoresheet for Jim Dalton’s charges, with Luke Aughey finishing top scorer with an impressive 2-1. Among many good displays were those of Nicholas Sherlock, Darragh Murray and Fintan Keogh. Well done to the squad and Jim. The Harps now sit in fourth place with one previously postponed group fixture against Carrick remaining.

Squad and scorers: Seán Callan, Mark McManus, Paul Maguire, Jack McDonald, Che Treanor, Kasper Ostrowski (0-1), Nicholas Sherlock, Tristan Moyna (1-0), Darragh Murray, Liam Conway, Evan Meighan (2-0), Fintan Keogh, Oisín Murray (1-0), Oisín Connolly, Aidan McKenna (0-3), Seán Treanor, Luke Aughey (2-1).

 

Monaghan U-17 Squad: A number of Harps players represented their county last Wednesday when they took on Cavan in the Celtic Challenge. Monaghan made up for their loss to Longford in their previous outing with a 2-11 to 0-15 victory. Dylan McAree, Aidan Burns and Anthony Greenan were involved and Aidan was voted Man of the Match. Well done to the lads and to their manager, Alan Ryan. Monaghan face Leitrim in Cootehill tomorrow evening (Wednesday).

 

Senior: A frustrating evening ended in a three-point defeat at home last Thursday evening in the Silver Hill Foods Development League. The Truagh goals lived a charmed life throughout with two attempts from Alan Ryan hitting the woodwork as well as a couple of goal-line clearances by the away team. The first half was a close affair with an early Conor McKenna goal and five scores from Conor Boyle proving enough to keep Truagh one point up at the interval. Six Harps players accounted for ten first-half points with Ray Lee, Frank Burke and Ciarán Cassidy converting some fine scores. The Harps had the better of the opening minutes of the second half with an Alan Ryan point and a fine individual goal by Ciaran Cassidy pushing us into the lead, but Truagh responded and a goal worked from a quick puck-out helped them regain their lead. The Harps’ effort persisted, however, and some excellent scoring from range off the sticks of Cathal Power and Conor Flynn kept the lads in touch. However, a third Truagh goal in the 45th minute proved too much of a lead to haul in and the match finished at 1-18 to 3-15. Plenty of positives can be taken from a battling performance, with some great hurling on show and fine displays from a number of our up and coming minors. That draws a close to the Development League for our seniors, who next face Inniskeen in the Senior League this Thursday at 8pm in Rooskey.

Team and scorers: Éanna Finlay; Conor Duffy, Robbie Healy, Dylan McAree; Paul Lee, Adrian Dalton, Tiarnán Bramley; Cathal Power (0-5), Ray Lee (0-1); Conor Flynn (0-4), Maurice McKenna, Ciarán Cassidy (1-3); Conor O’Neill, Alan Ryan (0-4), Frank Burke (0-1).

Subs: Michael Gissane for O’Neill.