Month / September 2024

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Prenter leads Moneyglass to victory

LGFA SFC

Moneyglass 2-14 St. Brigid’s 0-9

Orla Prenter hit 1-10 as St. Ergnat’s Moneyglass continued their quest to retain their Northern Property Senior Football Championship title with an 11 point win over a battling St. Brigid’s on Sunday.

Prenter struck with her side’s opening goal with only four minutes gone and another from Maire O’Neill in the 22nd minute saw the Marian Hill side lead 2-5 to 0-5 at the break.

The Musgrave Park side never gave up and played some excellent football at timjes bu t were never able to match the scoring fire of their opponents who would push on to win comfortably in the end.

Orla Prenter kicked all five of St. Ergnat’s first half points with Cliodhna Logan, Aoife Montague 0-2, Emma Ferran and Theresa Mellon the St. Brigid’s scorers.

After the break the home side continued to score at will with Orlaith Prenter in sparkling form and she would add a further 0-5 to her first half total with Cathy Carey, Leah Cassidy and Niamh Neeson weighing in with points.

St. Brigid’s kept battling right to the end and Ellie Murphy, Theresa Mellon, Cliodhna Logan and Emma Ferran all found the target for the Belfast girls but they never looked like overturning their opponents lead.

St. Eggnat’s: 1 Aine Devlin, 2 Danielle Duffin, 3 Niamh McIntosh, 4 Niamh Neeson, 5 Enya Carey, 6 Sarah O’Neill, 7 Rebecca Bradley, 8 Maria O’Neill, 9 Laura McCann, 10 Annie Griffin, 11 Cathy Carey, 12 Aoife Kelly, 13 Orlaith Prenter, 14 Cliona Griffin, 15 Katie McCloskey. 20 Leah Cassidy

Naomh Brid: 1 Erin Boyle, 2 Enya Boyce, 3 Maeve Blaney, 4 Cora Leonard, 5 Caoimhe Hefferon, 6 Rebeca Barker, 7 Prla T McKernan, 8 Theresa Mellon, 9 Emma Ferran, 10 Cliodhna Logan, 11 Aileen McDonnell, 12 Ciara Austin, 13 Ellie Murphy, 14 Aoife Montague, 15 Laura Agnew.

Thomas & Majella Hamill pictured here with their granddaughter Mia one of the Moneyglass underage and senior players. 

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Sun shines on Frankie Wilson tournament

The inaugural Frankie Wilson over 40’s Tournament was a huge success on a glorious warm and sunny day at Hannahstown.  Lámh Dhearg Chairman Brian Smyth welcomed Frankie’s family and friends and thanked the teams for participating and led a complimentary minute’s applause in memory of Frankie. All Ireland Senior Scor winner Meabh McNeill performed beautifully Amhrám na bhFiann.

The teams and stars of yesteryear rolled back the years and produced many exciting and skilful encounters in a very sporting atmosphere in very warm conditions . Congrats to St Paul’s on winning the Frankie Wilson cup and Brackaville on winning the Pearse McCormick Shield. It was also great to see players and family and friends proudly sporting the specially designed commemorative  Frankie retro  Jersey no 11 “sweet left foot”  Saffron old Boys also wore commemorative jerseys with Frankies name on the sleeve and on the back with his number 11

In the packed clubrooms Paul Buchanan compered the presentation and Paul along with Terry McCrudden, Catherine McGourty and Frankie’s brother Greg paid very poignant tributes to Frankie.

Sincere thanks to Lámh Dhearg and Saffron Old Boys for such a well organised tournament and to all the volunteers , participating teams and referees for their participation which made the tournament such a success and a  fitting tribute to the much respected Frankie.

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GAA for All at Kickham’s Creggan

Kickham’s Creggan hosted a very successful GAA forAll on Saturday with a massive crowd taking part at the Staffordstown Road complex. Event organiser, Tony McCollum welcomed participants from all over Ulster as the sun shone down on what was to prove a memorable day.

The Creggan man has been deeply involved in GAA 4-All since its inception a decade ago and has been one of the driving forces behind what has become a major event on the GAA calendar.

Tony enlisted the help of GAA players from Antrim who generously gave their time in making Saturday’s GAA for All a great success with Armagh’s All Ireland winner, Aidan Forker attending the event and bringing ‘Sam Maguire’ along.

Event organiser, Tony McCollum with his own personal fan club and Armagh’s Aidan Forker with ‘Sam Maguire’

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St. Joseph’s back on track with win over Con Magee’s

Northern Property LGFA SFC

St. Joseph’s 2-13 Glenravel 0-5

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St. Joseph’s Glenavy got their Northern Property SFC campaign back on track with a good win over Con Magee’s, Glenravel at St. Paul’s on Sunday to move into second place in the Group.

The Chapel Hill side put Last week’s heavy defeat to Group leaders and reigning champions, St. Ergnat’s Moneyglass behind them with a strong performance against the girls from the 10th Glen to climb into second place.

They certainly didn’t get it all their own way during a competitive opening half where the Con Magee’s gave as good as they got and it still looked all to play for when they turned around with only three points separating the sides.

After the break it was a different story as Glenavy stepped it up a gear to take control and Glenravel would add only one further point as St. Joseph’s took control.

Glenravel offered stubborn resistance with Caitlin McKeown pulling off a couple of excellent saves but she was finally beaten when Aoibheann Monaghan found the net in the 28th minute and the same player added a second in injury time.

Ellen Morgan, Natasha O’Neill and Keela McAllister fired St. Joseph’s into a three point lead by the 6th minute but Glenravel came back strongly with points from Leona Gillan and Niamh McKay to close the gap to the minimum at the end of the opening quarter.

Keela McAllister, Aoibheann Monaghan and Natasha O’Neill moved the Chapel Hill girls four in front by the 22nd minute and Aimee Traynor for Glenravel and Lydia Grant for St. Joseph’s exchanged further points before (12) replied with the final point of the half for the Con Magee’s to leave it 0-7 to 0-4 at the break

HT 0-7 TO 0-4

After the break St. Joseph’s assumed control as they introduced Anna Mulholland and Anna Rice and the impressive Aoibheann Monaghan hit two early points to extend their lead to five before Aimee Traynor replied with a point for the Con Magee’s in the 11th minute.

Mulholland announced her arrival with two well taken points before Monaghan put the game to bed when she finally found a way past the impressive Con Magees netminder Caitlin McKeown with two minutes of normal time remaining.

St. Joseph’s finished strongly and Keela McAllister had her goal bound shot superbly pushed over by McKewon at the expense of a point with Anna Rice adding another before Aoibheann Monaghan put the icing on a fine individual performance with her second goal in the 62nd minute

Glenavy: 16 Orla Mullin, 2 Aideen McCambridge, 3 Meabh Bradley, 4 Geraldine McCann, 5 Bronagh Forester, 6 Cathy Scannell, 7 Aoibhin  Gormley, 8 Natasha O’Neill, 9 Anna McStravick, 10 Lydia Grant, 11 Ellen Morgan, 12 Megan McGarry, 13 Keela McAllister, 14 Aoibheann Monaghan, 15 Mary McStravick.

Subs: Anna Mulholland, Anna Rice

Con Magees, Glenravel

1 – Caitlin McKeown

2 – Anita McKeown

3 – Emer McCann

4 – Clodagh McCann

5 – Sarah Fyfe

6 – Maeve Mulholland

7 – Aisling Donnelly

8 – Caitlin Law

9 – Orlaith Gould

10 – Rosa McCrudden

11 – Leona Gillan

12 – Niamh McKay

13 – Aimee Traynor

14 – Jaime Woulahan

15 – Aisling Mulholland

SUBS

Katie McDonnell

Keira Young

Cliodhna McBride

Eimear Butler

Aoibhinn McKenna

Emily Sharpe

Clodagh McPeake

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Loch Mór Dál gCais power into semi-final

Antrim Junior B Hurling Knock-Out – Preliminary round

Knock-Out preliminary round

Loch Mór Dál gCais 3-26 Loughbeg Harps 0-10

Loch Mór Dál gCais set up a semi-final meeting with St Bridget’s when they scored a big win over Loughbeg Harps in Saturday’s preliminary round at Mallusk.

Played in warm sunshine on an excellent surface Loch Mór Dál gCais started like an express train and had the ball in Loughbeg net twice in the first three minutes, the first from right half forward Darragh Turley and the second from corner forward Feria Carson.

Matthew Jones increased the lead to seven points in the fourth minute before the Moneyglass men opened their account with a point from a long range free by centre forward Conor McElhinney. Declan Phillips and Turley added two more points for the winners but Loughbeg were having a bit more possession and McElhinney sent another long range free between the Loch Mór Dál gCais posts.

Cormac Dwyer then hit his team’s third goal just before the end of the opening quarter and is soon became clear the Loughbeg had a massive task on their hand, though the battled away and well struck from midfielder Calum McStocker was followed by two more from Conor McElhinney frees by the 20th minute. However Loch Mór Dál gCais finished the first half  half strongly with six points on the trot, three from Turley, two from Jones and one from Paul McCrystal to lead by 3-14 to 0-6 at the interval.

Loughbeg Harps made a good start to the second half with points from McStocker and Aidan McErlaine and the second period was certainly more competitive, but Loch Mór Dál gCais had the damage done and they went on to win with a bit to spare and set up that mouth-watering  semi-final meeting with St Brigid’s in two weeks’ time

Loch Mór Dál gCais

Cathan MacEireamhoin, James Magorrian, Bailey Graham, Aarson Monaghan, Rory Bannon, Conor Jones, Jack Conway, Martin Braniff, Ruairi Moran, Darragh Turley, Cormac Dwyer, Matthew Jones, Declan Phillips, Martin Robb, Ferdia Carson.

Loughbeg Harps

  1. David Slevin 2. ⁠Paul Quinn 3. ⁠Diarmuid Scullin 4. ⁠Gary Maybin 5. ⁠Paul O’Hagan 6. ⁠Paul McCrystal 7. ⁠Hugh Mulholland 8. ⁠Calum McStocker 9. ⁠Eunan Smyth 10. ⁠Sean Boyd 11. ⁠Conor Mclhinney 12. ⁠Damien Carrol 13. ⁠Mark Walsh 14. ⁠Conor Harrison 15. ⁠Aidan McErlain 17. Aidrian Hegarty 18. ⁠Frank Berry 19. ⁠David Mcgettigan 20. ⁠Michael Duffin 21. ⁠Rory Taggart 22. ⁠Daniel McKenna

Referee – Eamon Cooke (Naomh Gall)

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