Fixtures: Tuesday, August 5: MFL Division One v Carrickmacross (Home) at 7.30pm; Under-12 FL Division 1A Play-Off v Inniskeen in Aughnamullen at 7pm

Thursday, August 7: Under-16 FC Division One Q-F v St. Patrick’s (Home) at 7.30pm

Saturday, August 9: Under-12 FL Division 3B Final v Finn Rua in Smithborough at 11am

Monday, August 11: Under-14 HL v Inniskeen (Away) at 7.30pm

Tuesday, August 12: MFC Division One Semi-Final: Donaghmoyne v St. Tiarnach’s at Gavan Duffy Park at 7.30pm

Wednesday, August 13: SFL v Ballybay (Away) at 7.30pm

 

Monaghan Harps Lotto: Numbers 5, 9, 19 and 25. Jackpot of €1,800 not won. Residual prizes: €100 B Corrigan c/o Paddy Donnelly; €40 Sadie Brennan c/o Joe Finlay; €40 Carmel Forde c/o Joe Finlay; €40 Pádraig Sherry c/o Brian O’Sullivan (Hurling Club). Jackpot for Sunday, August 10 is €1,900 and Ann and Kevin Treanor are on duty. The Lotto plays an essential part in the running of the club and we ask for everyone’s continued support.

 

Seniors: The SFL is due to resume with an away game against Ballybay next Wednesday.

 

Reserves: Our McKeown Cup title defence ended with a semi-final defeat at home to Truagh last Friday evening. After a slow start, points by Éimhín Morahan and Niall Greenan brought us back into contention and although Truagh struck the game’s opening goal, Éimhín and Niall kept us in touch and we were within touching distance at 1-7 to 0-5 at half-time. A red card early in the second half hurt our chances, however, and although Brendan McQuaid came off the bench to hit 1-1, Truagh pulled away to win by 3-13 to 1-7. Thanks to everyone who helped out and played for the McKeown Cup team this year.

Team and scorers: Ronan McGann; Aidan Connell, Niall Treanor; Turlough Clerkin, John Mulligan, Ahmed Gamal; Lorcan McAdam, Dónal McCarthy; Paul Byrnes, Niall Greenan (Capt., 0-3, 2f) Francis Lynch; Éimhín Morahan (0-2), Conor McCaughey (0-1f).

Subs: James McKenna for McAdam (11 mins), Brendan McQuaid (1-1) for Byrnes (38), Paul Smyth for Gamal (inj., 46), Lorcan McAdam for McCarthy (47), Dessie McGarry for Lynch (50), Darragh Hannon for McCaughey (57).

 

Minors: Our minors lost away to Killanny in the league last Tuesday. Éimhín Morahan, John Mulligan, Reece Treanor and Kevin Lyden were all on target as we raced into a seven-point lead, but the game quickly turned on its head and we went in trailing by 1-7 to 0-8. A string of points from Éimhín and one from substitute Remy McKenna led a spirited second-half effort and we were just a point down late on, but Killanny finished stronger to win by 1-16 to 0-15.

Team and scorers: Darragh Hannon; Daniel Kelly, Darragh Treanor, Tiarnán Bramley; Marc Brennan, Mustafa Gamal (Capt.), David Lowry; James McKenna, Dylan McKenna; Kevin Lyden (0-1), Éimhín Morahan (0-10, 7f), Kyle O’Leary; Reece Treanor (0-1), Ciarán McQuaid, John Mulligan (0-2).

Subs: Remy McKenna (0-1) for R Treanor (inj., 24 mins), Ruairí Forde for McQuaid (inj., H-T), Evan Cudden for Brennan (49), Thomas Bourke for Lyden (55).

We host Carrickmacross this evening (Tuesday).

 

U-16: Our Under-16 footballers lost at home to Truagh in the league last Thursday. Shane McMahon converted a penalty before half-time to keep our lads in touch, but a Soky John point was all they could manage in a third quarter in which Truagh opened up a healthy lead. Cathal Power got forward to score a great goal and Conor McCrystal also came off the bench to find the net, but our lads ran out of time, losing by 2-12 to 3-5. The U-16s start their championship campaign with a home quarter-final against St. Patrick’s this Thursday. All support welcome.

Team: Dylan McAree; Seán McKenna, Cathal Power, Thomas Croarkin; Niall Ward, Jamie Shields, Ultan O’Rourke; Shane McMahon, Remy McKenna; Soky John, Ethan Murphy, Niall McManus; Nathan O’Donoghue, Ben Kearns-Flynn, Conor Duffy.

Subs used: Dylan Duffy, Anthony Greenan, Conor McCrystal.

 

U-14: The next games for our two Under-14 football teams are on Saturday week (August 16).

 

U-12: Our Under-12 Division 1A team face Inniskeen in Aughnamullen on Tuesday evening in a play-off for the right to take on Donaghmoyne in the semi-final this weekend. Check website etc. for details.

Our Division 3B team had a convincing win away to Scotstown on Tuesday and they play their league final against Finn Rua in Smithborough this Saturday at 11am. All support welcome.

Team: Tom Dauksts; Ryan McSkeane (Capt.), Mark McManus; Che Treanor, Lukas Virfilas; Daragh Croarkin, Brian McAteer; Scott Cooney, Jake Power; Jamie Coyle, Josh Deeney.

Subs used: Conor Treanor, Craig Cooney, James Curley, Evan Meehan, Diarmuid McGee, Morgan Coyle, Oisín Reilly, Eoin Clerkin, Nathan Boylan.

 

County teams: Well done to Conor Galligan, Shane Smyth and the Monaghan senior footballers on their win over Kildare at Croke Park last Saturday. Best of luck to all involved in this Saturday’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Dublin.

Summer Camps: We will be hosting a Harps Summer Camp on the week of August 18-22 for children aged between six and 12, featuring football, hurling, handball and music. Forms are now available from club members. More details to follow.

 

Hurling: Our Under-16 hurlers are through to the league final after an exciting replay win at home to Carrickmacross on Monday evening. After changing ends level at 0-8 to 1-5, the Harps moved ahead with a brilliant goal from Aidan Burns and some fine point-taking from Cathal Power and Mark Murphy. Some strong defending in the closing minutes secured a 1-13 to 1-9 win. No details of the final were available at time of going to press.