Fixtures: Saturday, October 11: MHC Final v Carrickmacross in Clontibret at 2.30pm

Sunday, October 12: SFL v Magheracloone (Home) at 12.30pm

Monday, October 13: Under-16 FC Division One Final Replay v Truagh in Emyvale at 7.30pm

 

Monaghan Harps Lotto: Numbers 1, 15, 25 and 26. Jackpot of €2,700 not won. Residual prizes: €100 Aoife McSkeane c/o Ann Treanor; €40 Matt McCaughey c/o himself; €40 Patricia Sullivan c/o Barry Sullivan; €40 Osbourne Finnegan c/o Ann Treanor. Jackpot for Sunday, October 12 is €2,800 and Rose Hughes and Noel Hennessy are on duty. The Lotto plays an essential part in the running of the club and we ask for everyone’s continued support. Tickets can be left into the clubhouse from 7.45pm each Sunday.

 

Meetings: The club’s monthly meetings for October take place in the clubhouse this Thursday; juvenile at 7pm, senior at 8pm.

 

Seniors: Our senior footballers made it back-to-back league wins at home to Latton last Saturday. Latton outscored us by 0-4 to 0-1 in the first eight minutes, with our only score coming from a Dónal Hahessy free, but well-taken points from play by Gary White and Nicholas Treanor got us going. Evan Doherty hit 2-1 in the space of five minutes and Dónal added a point, before Kevin Loughran then kicked his first senior point. Latton got a goal back, but points from Dónal and Gary sent us in leading by 2-8 to 1-7.Dónal converted a brace of frees, either side of a Niall Greenan point, before the recently-returned Neil McAdam split the uprights at the end of a patient move to keep us narrowly ahead going into the last ten minutes. Substitute Éimhín Morahan then marked his SFL debut with a crucial goal and a point to make the final score 3-13 to 1-14. Our last home game of the year is against Magheracloone this Sunday at 12.30.

Team and scorers: Ashley White; Mustafa Gamal, Kevin Loughran (0-1), John Mulligan; Niall Treanor, Neil McAdam (0-1), Liam Hahessy; Peter Coyle, Nicholas Scott (Capt.); Dónal Hahessy (0-5, 4f), Gary White (0-2), Michael Galligan; Nicholas Treanor (0-1), Evan Doherty (2-1), Niall Greenan (0-1).

Subs: David Hughes for Gamal (40 mins), Dean Fanning for Nicholas Treanor (43), Éimhín Morahan (1-1) for Doherty (53).

 

U-16: Our Under-16s footballers drew their championship final against Truagh in Emyvale last Saturday. Points from Shane McMahon and Aidan Burns had our lads narrowly ahead in a low-scoring start, before Shane set up Dillon Duffy to clinically finish his first goal in the 15^th minute. We failed to score again until the last minute of the half, allowing Truagh to draw level, but Dillon again fired to the net to make it 2-2 to 0-5. Dillon kicked a fine point after the restart, but Truagh hit back with a 1-1 before Jack Deery tapped over a free. Dillon was the width of the crossbar away from completing his hat-trick, but at the other end we were fortunate that Truagh didn’t move ahead until ten minutes from time, when they hit two quick points to lead by two. Our lads dug deep, though, as Cathal Power halved the deficit and Shane converted a free to make the final score 2-6 to 1-9.

Team and scorers: Dylan McAree; Jamie Shields, Cathal Power (0-1), Ultan O’Rourke; Niall Ward, Thomas Croarkin, Niall McManus; Aidan Burns (0-1), Shane McMahon (Capt., 0-2, 1f); Jack Deery (0-1f), Ben Kearns-Flynn, Paul Peppard; Nathan O’Donoghue, Dillon Duffy (2-1), Ethan Murphy.

Sub: James Bourke for O’Donoghue (50 mins).

The replay has been set for Emyvale under lights on Monday night at 7.30. Best of luck once again to the team and their management of Michael O’Donoghue, Thomas McCabe, Ciarán Mulligan and Brian Lenehan. Please support!

 

Sponsored walk: The year’s Saturday-morning coaching came to a close with the annual sponsored walk and fun morning at Gavan Duffy Park last weekend. We were again blessed with beautiful weather for the final day, which concluded with a presentation of medals to each participant. Thanks to all the coaches and also to the parents, the children and everyone involved in keeping everything running so well throughout the last number of months.See photos on the club’s facebook page. The 2015 Saturday-morning coaching will start in March/April!

 

Recreational Tournament: Our annual recreational football tournament at Gavan Duffy Park will take place Sunday, October 26. More details to follow. Training continues on Mondays and Thursdays.

 

Scór: Scór competitions begin with Spraoi Scór on October 17. The Scór na nÓg semi-final is set for November 22.

 

Garda vetting: Club members who have received their Garda vetting clearance forms are asked to send a photocopy of same to Thomas McCabe.

 

Poker: The Monaghan Harps Poker Classic will take place in the clubhouse on Saturday, October 25.

 

Juveniles: There is an Under-13 blitz in Cloghan tonight (Thursday). Well done to Remy McKenna, Nathan O’Donoghue, Shane McCabe, Liam Conway, Dean Doherty, Daragh Croarkin and Ryan McSkeane, who represented our successful Under-16, Under-14 and Under-12 teams in last Sunday’s ‘Parade of Champions’ in Clones.

 

Well done: To the Harps senior ladies on their Ulster club quarter-final win in Silverbridge last Sunday.

 

Tickets: The draw for the club’s All-Ireland hurling final replay tickets was won by Val Forde, Pádraig Callan, John McMahon and Una Forde.

 

Hurling: Good luck to our minor hurlers in the championship final against Carrickmacross in Clontibret on Saturday at 2.30pm. All support welcome.

 

Ladies: After a great battling display our senior team defeated Silverbridge Harps in the Ulster Intermediate Quarter-Final on Sunday last. The girls led at half-time on a scoreline of 0-8 to 1-3. The second half was a tighter affair with some last gasp tackling and blocking making all the difference as the girls held on for a one-point win (0-13 to 2-6). This was a first Ulster club victory for the club in 13 years so the win was all the more sweet. The club extends its get well wishes to Una Rooney who injured her ankle falling over herself during the game.

Our U16s play Éire Óg in the Division Two League semi-final on Friday, with time yet to be confirmed. Best wishes to the girls.

Our minors play Donaghmoyne in the semi-final of the Division One league. This is a home game on Sunday at 12.30pm. Good luck ladies.

Training for seniors continues on Tuesdays and Fridays at 7pm in Rooskey.

U-12/U-14 training continues on Thursdays from 6.30-7.30pm and on Saturdays from 10.30-11.30am in Rooskey. Contact Trevor on 086 8716430 for further info.