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Castleblayney Faughs GFC
Castleblayney Faughs are a Gaelic football club based in the town of Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland. They are the most successful club in the Monaghan Senior Football Championship, having won the competition 37 times, and have also won the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship twice. It is a separate club from Castleblayney Hurling Club, the town's hurling club. History The current Castleblayney Faughs club was founded in November 1905. Within two years the Faughs won the Monaghan Senior Football Championship for the first time. After winning their second title in 1916, Castleblayney went on to beat Derry Sarsfields in the final of the National Aid tournament in 1917, a precursor to the Ulster Club Championship. They moved to their current grounds at St Mary's Park in 1953. Castleblayney reached the final of the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship in 1975, losing to St Joseph's. Blayney won the Ulster championship in 1986 beating All-Ireland champions Burre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castleblayney
Castleblayney (; ) is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town had a population of 3,926 as of the 2022 census. Castleblayney is near the border with County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and lies on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny. Geography The town lies above the western shore of Lough Muckno, the largest lake in County Monaghan. The River Fane flows eastwards from the lake to the Irish Sea at Dundalk in County Louth. As the Irish name of the lake ('the place where pigs swim') suggests, the area is associated with the Black Pig's Dyke, also known locally in parts of Counties Cavan and Monaghan as the Worm Ditch, an ancient Iron Age boundary of Ulster. A few miles to the north-east is the highest elevation in County Monaghan, 'Mullyash', at altitude 317 m (1,034 ft). History The area was originally known as ''Baile na Lorgan'' ("town of the long low ridge"), anglicised as 'Ballynalurgan'.Patrick McKay, ''A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burren GAA
Burren GAA, also known as St Mary's Burren GAA (), is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Burren, County Down, Northern Ireland. Notable players * Kevin McKernan * Daniel McCartan * Paddy O'Rourke - Down All Ireland Winning Captain 1991 * Brendan McKernan - Down All Ireland winner 1991 and 1994 * James McCartan Jnr - Won 2 All - Ireland senior medals with Down in 1991 and 1994, as well as 2 All star awards * Declan Rooney, played in the 2010 All-Ireland SFC Final * Stefan White * John "Shorty" Treanor Football titles All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament which began in season 1970–71. It is the top-tier competition for the senior football clubs of Ireland and London. The current champions are Cuala of D ...: 2 *1985–86, 1988–89 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship: 5 *1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 Down Senior Club Football Championship : 14 *1966, 1981, 1983, 1984, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan White
Stefan White (born 1967) is a retired Gaelic footballer who played in the full-forward line at inter-county level for his native Louth and Monaghan during the 1980s and 1990s. Playing career Growing up in Castlebellingham, County Louth as the son of legendary Louth star Stephen White, Stefan played his underage and early adult football with local side O'Connell's. He was part of the O'Connell's Louth Junior Championship winning team of 1983 at the age of 16. He also was selected for the Louth junior county side and in 1985, he won a Leinster Colleges title with his school Dundalk CBS. In 1986, White moved to Castleblayney in County Monaghan for work purposes and joined the local club Castleblaney Faughs. That same year, Louth manager Mickey Whelan gave him his Championship debut for Louth against Carlow. White accepted an invitation to declare for Monaghan ahead of the 1987 season and played in that year's Ulster Senior Football Championship. In the Ulster Final of 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamonn McEneaney
Eamon McEneaney is an Irish former Gaelic football manager and player for the Castleblayney Faughs club and at senior level for the Monaghan county team. McEneaney won the National Football League in 1985 while playing for Monaghan. He captained his club to two Ulster Senior Club Football Championship titles in 1986 and 1991. In retirement, McEneaney managed the Louth county team between 2006 and 2009, winning the 2009 O'Byrne Cup. He then managed the senior Monaghan county team from 2010 until 2012. Playing career As a player with Monaghan, McEneaney won three Ulster Senior Football Championship titles: in 1979, 1985 and 1988. He also won an U-21 title as a player in 1981 and as manager of Monaghan U-21's in 1999. He captained his club Castleblayney Faughs to two Ulster Senior Club Football Championship titles in 1986 and 1991. Coaching career McEneaney managed Monaghan in a joint capacity with former GAA president Seán McCague in 1997 and then on his own in 1998 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dermot Malone
Dermot Malone is a former Irish Gaelic footballer, formerly for Monaghan county football team and Castleblayney Faughs. He is now a sales executive. Career Malone is from Blackhill. He played for the Monaghan Under U14s and U21s, and debuted in the senior Monaghan team in 2010. Malone played in the Monaghan Ulster Senior final wins in both 2013 and 2015. He was the man of the match when Monaghan defeated Galway at the end of the Super 8s in 2018, taking the team to the All Ireland Semi Final against Tyrone. He put in his last appearance for Monaghan in the 2022 Ulster Senior final loss to Tyrone at Croke Park. He retired from inter-county Inter-county, is Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) List of Gaelic games terminology, terminology which refers to competitions or matches between County (Gaelic games), counties, as used in Gaelic games (differently from legal counties). The term c ... football due to injury in January 2022. In September 2022, he was selected as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Hughes (Gaelic Footballer)
Eugene "Nudie" Hughes (born 1957/8) is a former Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Monaghan county team.Hogan Stand Magazine Part of Monaghan sporting folklore Playing career Nudie helped Monaghan to victory in the 1985 Final defeating Armagh and he collected three medals in 1979, defeating Donegal, in 1985, beating Derry and again in 1988, defeating Tyrone in Clones. N ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hogan Stand
Hoganstand.com is a news website and the online face of the monthly Gaelic games magazine ''Hogan Stand'', which is distributed throughout Ireland. The magazine is named after the main stand in Croke Park Croke Park (, ) is a Gaelic games stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Named after Archbishop Thomas Croke, it is referred to as Croker by GAA fans and locals. It serves as both the principal national stadium of Ireland and headquarters of the Gaelic At ..., where the trophies are presented to the winning captains. The magazine was founded in 1991. The website also has a fan chat forum. References External links * 1991 establishments in Ireland Gaelic games magazines Magazines established in 1991 Magazines published in Ireland Monthly magazines published in Ireland {{sport-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CLG Na Cealla Beaga
CLG na Cealla Beaga is a Gaelic Athletic Association, GAA club based in Killybegs, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. They have won the Donegal Senior Football Championship on six occasions, most recently in 1996. They have an intense rivalry with CLG Chill Chartha, Cill Chartha. History Founded in 1924, the club have had teams break up several times in their history. They play Gaelic football, football only, though — in the past — played hurling too. From 1967, the team played at the coastal venue Fintra Park, subsequently renamed McDevitt Park; that year Donegal county football team, Donegal and Mayo county football team, Mayo played a game to mark its opening. They contested the Donegal SFC decider seven times between 1988 and 1996, winning five of them. The first of the five was the defeat of local rivals CLG Chill Chartha, Cill Chartha in the 1988 decider. It ended a 36-year wait for the Donegal SFC and was only the second time the club had won the competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Joseph's GFC (Donegal)
St Joseph's Gaelic Football Club was a Gaelic football club in County Donegal, Ireland. History The club was formed in 1963 from the merger of Aodh Ruadh, based in Ballyshannon, and Réalt na Mara, based in Bundoran. Brian McEniff explained in 2013 that St Joseph's was formed when the clubs in the two towns "were doing rather poorly. In spite of the great rivalry, they came together. The bonding factor was the De La Salle College in the upper part of our parish... All of the boys — except myself, I went to a boarding school in Monaghan — were from De La Salle. It was a natural transition". St Joseph's won an unofficial Ulster Senior Club Football Championship against St John's in Irvinestown in 1966, reached the first official final in 1968 and won the official tournament in 1975; they remained the only Donegal club to do so until 2018 when Gaoth Dobhair won Ulster. The clubs separated in 1977. Notable players * Alan Kane — 1972 and 1974 Ulster SFC winning player * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or palming the ball into the other team's Goal (sport), goal (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goal and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar, signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. Two points are awarded if the ball is kicked over the crossbar from a 40 metre range marked by a D-shaped arc, signalled by the umpire raising an orange flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurling
Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much glossary of Gaelic games terms, terminology. The same game played by women is called camogie ('), which shares a common Gaelic root. The objective of the game is for players to use an Fraxinus excelsior, ash wood stick called a hurl or Hurley (stick), hurley (in Irish a ', pronounced or in English) to hit a small ball called a ' (pronounced in English) between the opponent's goalposts either over the crossbar for one point or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a gaelic football and Hurling positions#Goalkeeper, goalkeeper for three points. The ' can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air or struck on the ground with the hurley. It can be kicked, or slapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castleblayney Hurling Club
Castleblayney Hurling Club is a hurling club based in the town of Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland. They are the most successful hurling club in Monaghan, having won the senior championship 34 times. It is a separate club from Castleblayney Faughs, the town's Gaelic football club. History The club was founded in 1906, and won their first senior championship in 1943, beating Carrickmacross in the final. They have gone on to dominate the competition, their most recent success coming in 2022. Castleblayney reached the final of the Ulster Junior Club Hurling Championship for the first time in 2005. Castleblayney won the championship with a 2–15 to 1–8 win over Strabane. In 2011, Blayney reached the final of the Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship, where they were well beaten by Middletown. They would reach the junior final again in 2014, and won the title for a second time with a comfortable win over Na Magha. The club played in their third Ulster Junior fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
