Fixtures: Thursday, April 4: U-15 FL Division Four v Latton (Home) at 6.30pm

Saturday, April 6: U-11 Spring League v Scotstown (Home) at 12pm

Sunday, April 7: IFL v Tyholland (Away) at 3pm

Tuesday, April 9: U-17 FL Division One v Emyvale (Home) at 6.45pm

 

Monaghan Harps Lotto: Numbers 12, 14, 15 and 25. Jackpot of €1,100 not won. Residual prizes: €100 Ronan Lynch c/o Paddy Donnelly; €40 Clare Farrell c/o Marie Farrell; €40 Paula McGinn c/o Ann Treanor; €40 James & Kiera Morgan c/o Barry Sullivan. Jackpot for Sunday, April 7 is €1,200 and Monica and Paudge Connolly 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 has now played a critical role in our club’s funding for almost 25 years: we plan to celebrate that milestone on April 28. We ask all club members to continue to promote our Lotto as much as possible.

 

Seniors: We started the Monaghan Electrical Intermediate Football League with a 2-12 to 1-7 win at home to Corduff last Saturday. After an evenly-matched start, a Harps team featuring three debutants pushed into a narrow half-time lead at 0-7 to 0-4. Neil McAdam, Aodhán Óg McAnespie, Dylan McKenna and Liam Hahessy accounted for our scores. Neil added a brace of goals in the third quarter and with Michael Galligan and Dean Fanning adding their names to the scoresheet, we ran out winners to claim the five points on offer.

Team and scorers: Darragh Hannon; John Mulligan, Kevin Loughran, Conor Duffy; Oisín Fagan, Conor Galligan, Brendan Óg Ó Dufaigh; Aodhán Óg McAnespie (Capt., 0-1), Dylan McKenna (0-1); James McKenna, Lochlainn Power, Dean Fanning (0-1); Liam Hahessy (0-2), Neil McAdam (2-5, 0-2f), Michael Galligan (0-2, 1f).

Subs: Gary White for Hahessy (inj., 44 mins), Garbhan McKenna for Power (55), Niall McManus for Fanning (58), Thomas Croarkin for Fagan (59), Nathan O’Donoghue for J McKenna (60).

We make the short trip to Tyholland for round two of the IFL this Sunday, with throw-in at 3pm. Please support!

 

Coaching: Our recent coaching programme in local primary schools concluded with a fun day at Gavan Duffy Park last Friday. Thanks to Coaching Officers Martin Sheridan and Mel McMorrow and the coaches involved for making this a big success. Next on the agenda is the return of our Saturday-morning coaching for our youngest players from this weekend (April 6). The club is very fortunate to have a pool of hardworking and dedicated individuals who look after and coach these ‘early learners’. Our Saturday-morning activities are fun-filled and enjoyed by the children and are an equally rewarding and enjoyable experience to those who help make it happen, so we encourage anyone with an interest to get involved.

 

Minors: The new U-19 Football League started last Sunday with a home game against Truagh. A slow start saw Truagh build up a big lead and although our U-19s (minus a few key players) improved as the game went on, they fell short on a scoreline of 5-11 to 3-10.

Panel: Daragh Croarkin, Cathal Nally, Killian McAdam, James McKenny, Joshua Clerkin, Killian Conlon, Stephen Ward, Lorcan O’Rourke, Conor Devlin, Seán Conway, Conor McCrystal, Eoghan McGinnity, Mujtaba Gamal, Dean Doherty, Tiarnan O’Rourke, Liam Conway.

The U-17 Football League is just under a week away, with our rescheduled first game set for next Tuesday, April 9 at home to Emyvale at 6.45pm. All support welcome.

 

U-15: The U-15 Football Leagues start this evening (Thursday) with a Division Four game at home to Latton at 6.30pm. The Division One league is due to get underway next Thursday, April 11. Good luck to all involved.

 

U-13: Well done to our U-13s, who continued their good start by winning both games of last Saturday’s Division One/Division Five double-header at home to Castleblayney. Our Division One side ran out winners by 5-15 to 2-17 in a high-scoring encounter, while our Division Five lads finished the right side of a 1-13 to 2-3 scoreline.

 

U-11: Our U-11s continue the Spring League at home to Scotstown this Saturday at 12 noon.

 

Registration: Registration fees for 2019 are now due to be paid to club registrar Kevin Treanor or in the clubhouse. Please note that all juvenile and adult players must be paid-up members. Fees are as follows: U-11s €20; juveniles/seniors €30; family membership €60.

 

Dates to remember: The 25^th anniversary party for the club’s Lotto is planned for April 28. Our Saturday-morning coaching for juveniles is due to kick off in early April. Darkness into Light will take place for a sixth time in Monaghan on May 11, 2019.

 

County: Well done to Daragh, Tiarnan, Liam, Nathan and the Monaghan minor and U-16 teams on good wins against Down last Saturday. Good luck to all involved in Antrim this Saturday.

 

Clubhouse: The Monaghan Harps clubhouse is available to book for functions. Please contact Paudge Connolly on 085 8589135 or Rose Donnelly on 086 0825782 for more information. Anyone looking to book the clubhouse for meetings, functions, etc. is asked to please give a week’s notice for convenience.

 

Pitches: Training schedules for all teams are currently being finalised. Coaches are asked to please ensure that gates and dressing rooms are locked and all equipment, bottles etc. is removed from the pitch after training sessions.

 

Ladies: Best of luck to the entire Coláiste Oiriall team in this Friday’s All Ireland final, especially all the players from Monaghan Harps Ladies GFC. Managing the team to their success so far is our senior player Niamh Maguire. Best of luck to all involved.

 

Scholarships: Coiste Cultúir & Gaeilge Coiste Chontae Mhuineacháin is offering scholarships for young people to attend Cúrsaí Gaeltachta during the summer of 2019. All members of Monaghan Harps are eligible to apply. Application forms are available from the resources section of www.monaghangaa.ie. All applications to be forwarded to Oifigeach Cultúrtha, Cláirsigh Mhuineacháin, 9 Old Park Court, Muineachán by April 8, 2019. A scholarship is also available this year for a family to attend a Gaeltacht course for a week. Expressions of interest to Oifigeach Cultúrtha as well.

 

Muineachán le Gaeilge: Tá ranganna Gaeilge eagraithe ag Muineachán le Gaeilge in ár gclubtheach gach Mháirt @ 7pm. More details of these Irish conversational classes can be seen on the Muineachán le Gaeilge social-media pages. Scaip an scéal le bhur dtoil!

 

O’Neills: A range of Harps gear can now be bought online from O’Neills website. See the club’s social-media pages for the link.

 

Notes: Anyone who has news for inclusion in the club notes can send an email to pro.monaghanharps.monaghan@gaa.ie by Tuesday morning.