Royal Meath Blog

Thursday, 16 February 2012

SIGERSON CUP QUARTER-FINALS

DCU 1-14 DIT 0-7:
2010 champions DCU are going all out to regain the Sigerson Cup they lost last year, and it’s going to take a seriously good team to stop them.
DCU: M Boyle (Donegal); P McMahon (Dublin, 0-2), K Gavin (Westmeath), E Culligan (Dublin); N Collins (Roscommon), J Cooper (Dublin, 0-1), J McCarthy (Dublin); F O’Curraoin (Galway), C Belgey (Laois, 0-1); P Flynn (Dublin), D Rock (Dublin, 0-5, all frees), D Keenan (Roscommon); J Brady (Cavan, 0-1), E O’Gara (Dublin, 0-2), A McFadden (Donegal, 1-1). Subs: F O’Shea (Cork, 0-1) for E O’Gara (50), C Cafferky (Roscommon) for J Cooper (55), P Dooney (Monaghan) for P Flynn (57), L Bree (Sligo) for K Gavin (57), C Cregg (Roscommon) for D Keenan (60).
DIT: A O’Mara (Dublin); P Cunningham (Wicklow), A McLoughlin (Wicklow), D Nelson (Dublin); E Reilly (Meath), B Menton (Meath), D Hughes (Monaghan); A O’Shea (Mayo), G McKiernan (Cavan, 0-1); P Sharry (Westmeath, 0-1f), T Parsons (Mayo), H Dawson (Dublin, 0-1); B Allen (Offaly), A Freeman (Mayo, 0-4, all frees), J McGrath (Wicklow). Subs: P McGuire (Dublin) for J McGrath (25), M Reilly (Cavan) for P Maguire (44), N Devereaux (Dublin) for D Hughes (58), R Hazley (Dublin) for H Dawson (60).
Referee: B McCormack (Dublin)

UUJ 0-12 NUI Galway 1-6:
UUJ edged this quarter-final with three injury-time points.

UUJ: S McCormack (Kildare); G McCartan (Down), A McClean (Antrim), R Pickering (Tyrone); E Wade (Donegal), L McLoone 0-1 (Donegal), C McGinley (Tyrone); N McAdam (Monaghan), A McArdle 0-1 (Down); P Devlin 0-1, 1f (Down), P Hughes (Tyrone), M Donnelly 0-5, 1 pen (Tyrone); D McNulty 0-3 (Tyrone), K Hughes 0-1 (Monaghan), R McNabb (Tyrone). Subs: C Clarke (Down) for McArdle, (43 mins), C Sheridan (Leitrim) for Devlin (51 mins), S McGuigan (Tyrone) for P Hughes (57 mins).
NUIG: D O’Sullivan (Limerick); L Healy 0-1 (Clare), G Sweeney (Galway), K McDonald (Tipperary); R Rochford (Mayo), J Maloney (Offaly), R Kiely (Tipperary); S Guing (Offaly), S Moran 0-1 (Leitrim); F Deasmhunaigh 0-1 (Cork), S Gilmartin (Sligo), K Conroy (Mayo); N Douglas 0-1, 1f (Mayo), J Doherty 1-1 (Mayo), I Galvin (Kerry). Subs: K Conlon 0-1 (Leitrim) for Conroy (25 mins), G Higgins (Galway) for Galvin (40 mins), D Newcombe (Mayo) for Healy (50 mins).
Referee: Michael Rock (Clare).

UCC 2-7 IT Sligo 0-11:
Holders UCC needed to produce a strong finish to keep their Sigerson Cup campaign alive after a competitive encounter at Edenderry Wed 14 Feb 2012.

UCC: D Farry (Cork); S Enright (Kerry), E O’Mahony (Cork), J O’Sullivan (Cork); P Crowley (Kerry) (0-1), N Daly (Roscommon), B Daly (Cork); K O’Driscoll (Cork), B Moran (Kerry); M Greene (Kerry), M Collins (Cork) (0-2, free), JB Spillane (Kerry); B O’Driscoll (Cork, 0-2), S O’Brien (Kerry, 0-1), P Geaney (Kerry, 2-1). Subs: D Nation (Cork) for Moran (h-t); S Beston (Cork) for Greene (51)
IT SLIGO: A Faherty (Galway); R Donovan (Sligo), K Keane (Galway), J Kelly (Sligo); D Drake (Mayo), D Geraghty (Mayo), G Gaughan (Sligo); D Givney (Cavan, 0-1), E Mullen (Sligo, 0-2); P Garvey (Roscommon) (0-2, free), E Keating (Cavan, 0-2), P Seoige (Galway); D Cummins (Galway, 0-1), K Sweeney (Sligo, 0-3, free), M McHugh (Donegal). Subs: D Maye (Sligo) for Drake (34); M Dunne (Cavan) for Cummins, M Brady (Longford) for Garvey Iboth 58).
Referee: S Carroll (Westmeath).

Maynooth: 2-08 UCD: 1-08
Maynooth got the better of favourites UCD by 2-8 to 1-8 Thurs 16 Feb 2012
Colm Murphy foe UCD sent off in second half by Longford referee Derek Fahy.
Maynooth had an outstanding front line of Mickey Newman,Paul Cahilane and David Quinn who upset a full back line led by Dublins Rory O Carroll.

NUIM : S Connolly (Kildare); K O’Brien (Kildare), K Lynch (Meath), D Dalton (Meath); T Moolick 1-1 (Kildare), J McDermott (Dublin), S Denvir 0-1 (Galway); C Berrigan (Meath), C Brophy (Kildare); J Califf 0-2 (one free) (Louth), S Hurley (Kildare), C Mullins 0-1 (Dublin); M Newman 1-1 (Meath), P Cahillane 0-1 (Laois), D Quinn 0-1 (Dublin). Subs : S Fahey (Kildare) for Hurley inj (13); G McIntyre (Dublin) for Berrigan (40); A Walsh (Kerry) for Mullins (44); S O’Hanlon (Louth) for Quinn (53).
UCD : M McGinley (Donegal); M Furlong (Wexford), J Hayes (Cavan), C Forde (Galway); C Barrett (Mayo), Rory O’Carroll (Dublin), S Redmond (Carlow); M Coughlan (Dublin), C Murphy (Dublin); C Dias (Dublin), L Smith (Westmeath), C Carthy (Wexford); N Kilroy 0-2(1f) (Roscommon), D Kingston 0-1 (Laois), A Giles 0-1 (Westmeath). Subs : M O’Regan 0-1 (Wexford) for Smith (19); N Murray 0-3(1 45) for Carthy (37); M O’Hanlon (Wexford) for Kingston (44); M Duffy (Monaghan) for Barrett; D Larkin 1-0 (Meath) for Kilroy (51).
Referee: D Fahy (Longford)

Cork and Armagh suspensions after mass brawl

Cork and Armagh suspensions after mass brawl
Cork and Armagh have had suspensions and both county boards fined €5,000 following the mass brawl at the the Athletic Grounds a fortnight ago.
Cork's Michael Shields faces a two-match ban and Pearse O'Neill has been banned for one match.
Armagh duo Malachy Mackin and Ciaran McKeever have both been handed one-match bans.

Cork selector Ger O'Sullivan has expressed surprise at the CCCC's decision. He told the Irish Examiner: "Okay, maybe they want to stamp out this pushing and shoving but I have seen it on DVD and I would be very surprised if anything came of it.

Armagh fought back to earn a draw against 14-man Cork in the Allianz Football League Division 1 clash at the Morgan Athletic Grounds on Sun 5 feb 2012

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2012/0216/cork_armagh.html

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Cavan county board raises doubts about Johnston’s residency

Cavan county board raises doubts about Johnston’s residency
SEANIE JOHNSTON’S PROPOSED inter-county transfer to Kildare failed again when the Cavan county board raised doubts about the forward’s eligibility for a move.
Cavan said that they are “unable to assist” with Johnston’s switch to Kildare as “they believe there is a doubt about compliance” with the GAA’s residency criteria for such transfers.
http://thescore.thejournal.ie/cavan-county-board-raises-doubts-about-johnstons-residency-342019-Jan2012/

Dublin Mayo Match to be replayed on March 31st

The GAA’s Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) to defer until Saturday, March 31st, the abandoned Allianz Football League game between Mayo and Dublin.

The game was called off at half-time last Sat 11 Feb 2012 due to heavy fog, will take place back at McHale Park in Castlebar.

It was also confirmed that Dublin defender James McCarthy, who was shown a straight red card after 23 minutes of last Saturday’s game, would still be facing the new one-match ban, despite the fact the game itself wasn’t concluded.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0214/1224311747415.html

Sunday, 12 February 2012

National Football League Div 2 Monaghan 0-17 Kildare 0-12 Sun 12 Feb 2012

National Football League Monaghan 0-17 Kildare 0-12 Sun 12 Feb 2012

More ugly scenes with a mass brawl and scuffle just before half time.

Players and team officials got involved with pushing and shoving and punches thrown, with the row continuing into the tunnel.
Suprisingly only 3 yellow cards and one red issued for the brawl.
Referee Joe McQuillan consulted with his umpires before brandishing a red card to Kildare defender Brian Flanagan ahead of the start of the second half, while his team-mate Padraig O'Neill and Monaghan duo Dick Clerkin and Dessie Mone both received yellows.
The melee which ensued broke up initially but continued after the half-time whistle in the tunnel.
It was of a serious nature and something which has become far too commonplace in GAA circles.
Some TOUGH opposition for Meath in the Natioanl League.