FonaCAB/St. Paul’s Ulster Minor Club tournament
Sunday 8th December 2024
Quarter Final 3 – 1pm Shaws Road
Four Masters (Donegal) v Scotstown (Monaghan)
Four Masters are set to defend their Ulster minor crown this Sunday when they take on Scotstown of Monaghan in the third quarter-final of the fonan/CAB Ulster Minor Football Championship.
The three-in-a-row Donegal minor champions Four Masters won the Jimmy McConville Cup on New Year’s Day and they are back, hoping to be the first team to go back-to-back in defending the provincial championship since Glen did it over a decade ago.
“Any team you get up here you’re expecting a tough game but I suppose we’ll have a bit of a target on our backs because we won it last year, but we’ve been used to that in Donegal and we’ll be expecting the same up here but it’s good to be back and we’ll be giving it a good go,” Four Masters captain Callum McCrea said.
The competition returned to the U-18 this year in line with the GAA reverting the minor grade back to its traditional form and this in essence will mean that holders, Four Masters canfield the same team as last year.
Four Masters’ prominence in Donegal underage Gaelic Football continues apace after the Donegal Town club won their third Division 1 championship title in a row with a 2-10 to 1-11 victory over Naomh Conaill.
Standing in their way will be Scotstown of Monaghan who defeated Monaghan Harps in their county final and the Monaghan side will not be travelling to Belfast to make up the numbers and could ask some questions of the Donegal champions.
Daniel McGinty, Callum McCrea, Thomas Carr, Padraig McGonagle, Tiarnan McBride and Oisin Doherty will spearhead the Four Masters challenge on the Shaw’s Road while Darragh McMeel, Mark McCaffery, Max Maguire, Tommy Mallen and Sean Og McElwain will lead the Scotstown challenge.