Fixtures: Thursday, June 8: U-14 FC Division One v Carrickmacross (Home) at 7.30pm

Saturday, June 10: SFL v Truagh (Home) at 7pm; U-12 FL Division One v Carrickmacross (Away) at 12pm; U-12 FL Division Five v Carrickmacross (Away) at 1.15pm

Wednesday, June 14: RFL Division 1A v Clontibret (Away) at 8pm

 

Monaghan Harps Lotto: Numbers 2, 3, 8 and 26. Jackpot of €1,900 not won. Residual prizes: €100 Ryan Murphy c/o Dermot Coyle; €40 Ruairí Forde c/o Una Forde; €40 Noreen O’Mahony c/o Ladies Club; €40 Dianius Viaciulis c/o Ladies Club. Jackpot for Sunday, June 11 is €2,000 and Mary and Fergus Coyle are on duty. Lotto draw takes place in our clubhouse every Sunday night. All welcome. Thanks to everyone for their support for our Lotto, which plays a critical role in our club’s funding. We ask all club members to continue to promote our Lotto as much as possible.

 

Seniors: We host Truagh in the County Monaghan Credit Unions Senior Football League this Saturday at 7pm.

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

 

Reserves: A busy weekend of Platinum Tanks Reserve Football League action started when we hosted Scotstown in Division 1A last Friday. We faced a narrow deficit for long spells of this game, despite Conor Forde finding the net midway through the second half. We were still within striking distance late on, but Scotstown hit the last couple of scores to run out 2-12 to 1-9 winners.

Team: Dessie McGarry; Thomas Croarkin, Mustafa Gamal, Niall Treanor; Dylan McKenna, Niall Greenan, Conor Duffy; Peter Coyle, Aodhán Óg McAnespie (Capt.); Conor Forde, Shane McMahon, Evan Doherty; Colm Shalvey, Ben Kearns-Flynn, Paddy Connolly.

Sub: Brendan McQuaid for Connolly.

We then played at home to Éire Óg in Division 2B on Sunday. A Thomas Croarkin goal had us within a point at half-time and when Thomas found the net again after the restart, we held a narrow lead, only for Éire Óg to take charge with a run of unanswered points. We battled back, but ended up falling short on a scoreline of 2-6 to 1-13.

Team: Dylan McAree; Conor Flynn, Conor Callan, Kyle O’Leary; Jamie Shields, Ciarán Garvey, Conor Forde (Capt.), Dylan McKenna, Adam Cullen; Conor Duffy, Thomas Croarkin, Ben Kearns-Flynn; Reece Treanor, Dillon Duffy, Colm Shalvey.

Sub: Ruairí Forde for Cullen.

We are away to Clontibret in Division 1A next Wednesday at 8pm.

 

U-14: A busy week saw us travel to Carrick for a league double-header last Tuesday, before contesting a Féile practice tournament in Cloghan on Saturday. We were unable to build on a bright start to the Division One league game in Carrick last week, when the home team grew stronger as the game went on to end up on top.

 

Team and scorers: Oisín Reilly; Ryan McSkeane, James Curley; Gary Devlin, Liam Conway (Capt.), Kevin Moran (0-1f); Nathan Lavery (1-1, 0-1f), Tiarnán O’Rourke (0-2); Jake McConnon, Shay Cooney (0-1), Jake Power (0-2f); Luke McManus (0-2), Karol Parszywka.

Subs used: Shea Swift, Mark McManus, Jordan Crampton.

We were well in touch for much of the Division Five game until Carrick pulled away in the closing stages.

Team and scorers: Oisín Reilly; Jordan Crampton, Gary Devlin (1-0); Shea Swift (0-1), Gregory O’Connell; Jake McConnon, Ryan McSkeane; Michael McMorrow, Dáire Sheridan (Capt.); Adam McBride (0-3, 1f), Luke McManus (2-2).

Sub used: Eoin McCleary.

Saturday’s tournament saw us play a good contest with Emyvale, before running out winners against Inniskeen and Killanny.

Our panel was: Karol Parszywka, Michael McMorrow, James Curley (0-2), Jordan Crampton, Kevin Moran (3-1), Mark McManus, Shea Swift, Tiarnán O’Rourke (0-4), Liam Conway (1-0), Jake McConnon (1-0), Shay Cooney (2-4), Dáire Sheridan (1-0), Luke McManus (3-2), Jamie Coyle (1-4), Gregory O’Connell.

U-12s: Both of our Under-12 teams are away to Carrickmacross this Saturday: Division One at 12 noon, Division Five at 1.15.

 

Féile: We will be hosting boys’ and girls’ U-14 teams for the John West Féile Peil na nÓg 2017 on the weekend of June 23-25. Meath boys’ champions Naomh Colmcille and Calry/St. Joseph’s girls from Sligo will be our guests. We have a meeting for all host families in the clubhouse this Friday at 8.15pm.

 

County: Good luck to Neil McAdam and the Monaghan senior footballers in their Ulster championship quarter-final in Cavan this Sunday.

 

Good luck: To all our young players and members who started the Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams this week.

 

Membership: Registration fees of €20 for 2017 are now overdue and must be paid to club registrar Kevin Treanor or in the clubhouse as soon as possible.

 

Abbey Fanning Tournament: This year’s Abbey Fanning Ladies Sevens Tournament will take place this Saturday, June 10. Good luck to all involved.

 

Dates to remember: We will be participating and hosting at Féile Peil na nÓg 2017 (June 23-25), a week after our juvenile street collection (June 16-17). We will once again host a Kellogg’s Monaghan GAA Cúl Camp from July 10-14. Registration is open online now. Our own Harps Summer Camp will take place in August (14-18). Keep an eye on club notes for more details on these events.

 

Get well soon: We wish a speedy recovery to talented Harps U-10 player Finn Brennan after his recent injury.

 

Coaching: Keep an eye out for details about an upcoming Child Protection course.

 

Pitch bookings: All pitch bookings for 2017 for training or matches must be made via 086 1957155. Training slots have been allocated and any changes must be notified in advance. All co-operation from team mentors in maintaining the pitches is appreciated.

 

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 notes:

Senior: We will open the senior championship with a home fixture against Castleblayney on Thursday, June 29 at 8pm.

 

Ladies Notes:

Dates to Remember: This year’s Abbey Fanning Blitz will take place on Saturday, June 10.

 

Training: Training continues Thursdays for U-12s and U-14s from 6-7pm and Mondays and Thursdays for U-16s, minors and seniors; 6.50-8pm. Old and new faces welcome.