Malachy O Rourke

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(...)

Mayo 3-15 Monaghan 1-18 It’s not even Easter and already Mayo are rising from the dead. Written off just a few weeks ago on a dismal night against th(...)

Monaghan 0-11 Galway 1-9 A fine result for Galway on a perishing afternoon in Grattan Park Inniskeen. Kevin Walsh’s side arrived as underdogs given a(...)

Roscommon 1-12 Monaghan 0-13 Anthony Cunningham admitted that his side were learning all the time about life in the fast lane as his side caused a hu(...)

For anyone looking for straws in the wind, it’s probably not worth spending too much time on the fact that Dublin lost their opening game of 2019 to M(...)