Eoghan McGinnity receiving his All Ireland medal from Austin McKenna GAA Handball

An outstanding weekend in the history of Harps Handball culminated in an Ulster title for Seán Callan and an All-ireland Colleges title for Eoghan Mc Ginnity.

Sean’s victory by 15-2, 15- 1, over Tyrone’s Eoin Donaghy brought a third Ulster title to the Harps.

This final was refixed for the Monaghan venue and Seán took full advantage of the fast court. He served very well but his choice of shots was exemplary. He mixed good kill shots with impressive ceiling shots in front of a great crowd of supporters.

Eoghan brought home the All-Ireland Colleges title by winning the semifinal and final on Saturday last in Kingscourt. If anything his semifinal win over Cork’s Cian O’Driscoll was the highlight of a superb performance. His Munster opponent is one of the top ranking players in the country. Eoghan beat him 15-7, 15-9 in an awesome display of serving and retrieval.

He then proceeded to the final against Eimhín Ó Diollúin from Galway. What looked like a tough match in prospect turned into a one-sided affair such was Eoghan’s speed around the court. He won by 15-5, 15-3.

Congratulations to our new champions. Hard luck to Szymon, Tiarnán, Konrad and Justas who found the going very tough.

Sean Callen Ulster U13 Singles Winner receiving his medal from County Handball representative Eugene McGinnity

Monaghan Harps are running a 12-hour Handball Blitz on Saturday,  March 10th.

Cumann na mBunscol

Deravoy N.S. L 

Liathroid Laimhe.

Cumann na mBunscol. On Thursday past the 8th 5 pupils from Deravoy NS played in the Ulster end of Cumann na mBunscol in Belfast, Fiona Flood played in the U13 girls Singles, Megan Mc Clave & Niamh Kelly played in the U13 Girls Doubles and Luke Mc Kenna & Donnacha Mc Cluskey played in the U11 boys Doubles, first up were the boys were they played Donegal & Armagh, they dispatched of both teams but the sterner test was to come in Tyrone, it was a clinker of a game and was nip & tuck throughout, Tyrone won the first 11-10, and in the second game the Deravoy boys were leading 8-3 and were pushing Tyrone all the way but Tyrone battle back to win 11-10 again, all watching the game said the standard was terrific and either team would have been worthy winners, then the boys went on to secure 2nd place in the competition by beating Cavan 11-8, 11-6, then a quick move to a new venue the girls took centre stage, the U13 doubles of Megan Mc Clave & Niamh Kelly played and secured 3rd place over all only to tipped by Donegal for 2nd even though the girls beat Donegal but it was the total of points that determined their final position, then Fiona Flood played in the girls U13 single where she came out on top of the 5 counties being represented to take gold, one by one the all fell for Fiona as she stormed her way to the All Ireland series of the competition in Kingscourt on Saturday the 24th of February, good luck to Fiona and I am sure plenty will travel to support you on the day and very well done to all who took part and very near reached Kingscourt also, a big thank you to Gene Flood & Brian Mc Kenna (O) who traveled to Belfast with the young competitors, because any success for anything must have the backing of parents to succeed, well done to one and all on the day.

Ulster Juvenile Champioships. The girls U13 singles Ulster final between Aoibhinn Mc Cluskey &  Tyrone opposition was due to be played Tuesday past the 13th so a full report next week, good luck Aoibhinn.

Adult Club Singles. The Gola Furniture and Silver Hill competitions have by now got the first rounds completed, so can all players keep all to date so all games are fulfilled to keep the knockout moving, thank you.

Adult Club Doubles.   The club doubles competitions will soon be taking place so any one interested please forward your name to Brendy asap.

Adult County & Ulster. Good luck to Dermot Boyle and John Treanor who take part soon in County and Ulster finals respectively.

Girls Ulster 40×20