Fixtures: Tuesday, July 7: MFL Division One Shield v Scotstown (Home) at 7.30pm
Thursday, July 9: Under-16 FC Division One v Scotstown (Away) at 7.30pm; SHC Q-F v Carrickmacross in Castleblayney at 8pm
Friday, July 10: Under-21 Division One Q-F v Scotstown (Home) at 7.45pm
Saturday, July 11: Under-12 FL Division One v Castleblayney (Home) at 2.30pm; Under-12 FL Division Five v Castleblayney (Home) at 1.15pm; Under-12 FL Division Four v Aghabog (Home) at 12pm
Sunday, July 12: SFL v Castleblayney (Away) at 2pm; RFL Division Three v Aghabog (Home) at 12.30pm
Tuesday, July 14: Under-12 FL Division Four v Aughnamullen (Home) at 7.30pm
Wednesday, July 15: RFL Division Three v Clones (Away) at 8pm
Monaghan Harps Lotto: Numbers 2, 3, 16 and 21. Jackpot of €3,000 not won. Residual prizes: €100 Lucy Kelly c/o Séamus Treanor; €40 Ronan McCaughey c/o Matt McCaughey; €40 Paddy Brennan c/o Liz Brennan; €40 Aidan Donnelly c/o Paddy Donnelly. Jackpot for Sunday, July 12 is €3,100 and Mary McRory, Una Forde and Rose Donnelly are on duty. Lotto draw takes place in the clubhouse every Sunday night. All welcome.
Meetings: The club’s monthly meetings for July take place this Thursday in the clubhouse: juvenile at 7pm, senior at 8pm.
Seniors: Our senior footballers have a star game away to Castleblayney this Sunday at 2pm.
Reserves: We stayed joint-top of the RFL Division 1B with a 1-19 to 0-7 win away to Emyvale last Sunday. We ran up 1-11 in the first half, with our forwards on form, midfielders on top and good support arriving from further back, including Mustafa Gamal, who marked his return from injury by scoring the only goal. The likes of Dessie McGarry kicked some excellent scores to see out a good win, which sets up a big game against Castleblayney on Saturday week.
Team: Paul Smyth; Mustafa Gamal, Robbie Moyna, Ahmed Gamal; Niall Treanor, Mark McCaughey, Tiarnán Bramley; Aodhán Óg McAnespie, Dónal McCarthy; Colm Shalvey, Paul Rushe (Capt.), Conor Forde; Dessie McGarry, Turlough Clerkin, David Carey.
Subs: John Treanor for Carey, Matthew Kavanagh for Shalvey, Jimmy Croarkin for Forde (inj.)
We have two important RFL Division Three games this week: at home to Aghabog on Sunday and away to Clones on Wednesday.
U-21: Our Under-21s had a comfortable win at home to Killeevan in the preliminary round of the Division One knock-out competition last Thursday. Points by Éimhín Morahan and Francis Lynch, either side of a Fearghal McMahon goal, got our lads off to a good start, but Killeevan fought back to draw level, although Fearghal, Éimhín and Kevin Loughran added points for the Harps. It took late goals by Conor Forde and Éimhín to put daylight between the teams at half-time (3-6 to 1-3), but our lads took over after the restart, with Éimhín adding 1-2 to his tally and Fearghal, Francie and Niall Treanor also on target. Late goals by Fearghal and Dylan McKenna made the final score 6-14 to 1-5, but tougher tests await.
Team and scorers: Darragh Hannon; Ahmed Gamal, Paul Smyth, Conor Forde (Capt., 1-0); Marc Brennan, Niall Treanor (0-1), Tiarnán Bramley; Turlough Clerkin, Dónal McCarthy; Francis Lynch (0-3), James McKenna, Thomas Bourke; Kevin Loughran (0-1), Fearghal McMahon (2-4, 0-2f), Éimhín Morahan (2-5, 0-1f).
Subs: David Lowry for Brennan, Dylan McKenna (1-0) for J McKenna (both 40 mins), Ryan Shields for Hannon (45), David Carey for Morahan, John Treanor for Lynch (both 49).
Next up is a quarter-final at home to Scotstown on Friday at 7.45pm.
Minors: After the exam break, our minor footballers host Scotstown in the first game of the Division One league shield this evening (Tuesday). We have been drawn away to Truagh in a championship quarter-final on Tuesday, July 21.
U-16: Our Under-16 footballers fell to a 2-13 to 1-10 defeat against St. Patrick’s in Ballybay last Thursday. The lads have a championship quarter-final away to Scotstown this Thursday. Good luck to all involved.
U-14: The Under-14 FL Division One resumed with a good win away to Scotstown last Saturday. We conceded an early goal, but points by Luke Coyle (three) and Anann Connor brought us back into the game, before Brendan Óg Ó Dufaigh and Anann edged us ahead. Scotstown replied with another goal, but excellent points by Conor Devlin and Lorcan O’Rourke made it level at half-time: 0-8 to 2-2. Our lads made a great start to the second half, with 1-1 by Luke and points from Lorcan, Anann, Conor and Terence McDonald. Further scores by Conor, Dylan Ballantine, Terence and Luke stretched our lead and although Scotstown hit a late goal, another point by Conor rounded off a 1-18 to 3-6 win for the Harps.
Team and scorers: Daragh Croarkin; Andrew Lyden, Liam Conway; Killian Conlon, Lochlainn Power, Tiarnán O’Rourke; Annan Connor (0-3, 2 ‘45s), Conor Devlin (Capt., 0-4); Lorcan O’Rourke (0-2), Dylan Ballantine (0-1), Luke Coyle (1-5, 0-3f); Brendan Óg Ó Dufaigh (0-1), Stephen Ward.
Sub used: Terence McDonald (0-2).
Both U-14 teams are back in action on Saturday week.
U-12: Saturday is a big day for our three Under-12 teams, who all have important games in a triple-header at Gavan Duffy Park. First up is the Division Four game against Aghabog at 12, followed by two games against Castleblayney: Division Five at 1.15 and Division One at 2.30. The Division Four team have another home game next Tuesday evening against Aughnamullen.
Harps Camp: After the success of last year’s Harps Summer Camp, we will host it for a second time from August 17-21. More details will be announced later.
Clubhouse: The Monaghan Harps clubhouse is available to book for functions. Contact Jimmy Croarkin on 087 1249635 or Pádraig Callan on 087 2139188 for more information. Anyone looking to book the clubhouse for meetings, functions, etc. is asked to please give a week’s notice for convenience.
Hurling:
U-12s: Our fixture at home to Clontibret on Monday was postponed. Next up is an away trip to Inniskeen on July 20 at 6.45pm. Training continues on Sundays at 12pm.
U-14s: Our Under-14s lost out to Lisbellaw last Monday despite putting in a great performance in difficult conditions. We are at home to Castleblayney in the final round of the league on July 27 at 7.30pm.
U-16s & Minors: Our U-16 fixture at home to East Cavan Gaels on Monday was postponed. Well done to Dylan McAree, who was selected to take part in an Ulster hurling development camp in Jordanstown, Belfast this week. Next in the U-16 league we are away to Inniskeen on July 20 at 8pm. We are still waiting on minor championship fixture details to be released to the clubs.
Seniors: Our seniors play Carrickmacross in Castleblayney this Thursday in the championship quarter-finals. Throw-in is at 8pm in St. Mary’s Park.
By cshalvey Tue 7th Jul
