Malachy O Rourke

December football in Ulster. Low skies and foot-stamping in the stands. Soft ground and mucky balls. And on the sideline, under thick wool hats and be(...)

Glen (Derry) 1-18 Scotstown (Monaghan) 0-12 It was one of those days where everything you could hope for from a Glen perspective went well, with eve(...)

Sometime after half-past-three last Sunday afternoon, Mickey Harte sat staring out from a bleak, darkening stand on to an empty torn up football field(...)

For Clontibret, tonight can be something or it can be nothing. The Monaghan champions play Naomh Conaill of Donegal in Omagh, with the winners through(...)

There are just five vacancies left in the list of county football managers for the coming year. Galway, London, Laois, Wicklow and Tipperary have yet(...)

Expect a surprise Think of 2009, and Tadhg Kennelly smashing into an unsuspecting Nicholas Murphy; think of 1978, and Mikey Sheehy with that mischiev(...)

The GAA shares with the rap communities of America a genius for gifting the world with original words and phrases which then pass into the everyday. (...)

‘It’s the hope that kills you,” is a phrase that will probably have been uttered by fans of all Gaelic football-playing counties except one by the end(...)

Fermanagh 1-6 Monaghan 1-10 Monaghan survived a scrappy Round One qualifier against neighbours Fermanagh in Clones, who finished with just 12 men. M(...)

Cavan 1-13 Monaghan 0-12 Want to know how close this derby usually is? Only once in the past 30 years has there been five points in it – and that was(...)