Mirmachi valley high school new bronswick canada tour itinery to monaghan march 2013. March 13th (Wednesday) 25 players & 4 adults to arrive at Dublin airport 5.00pm – Training session in Monaghan RFC @ 5pm with a match against Monaghan at 6pm. (B teams) 7.30pm – Civic reception at the new Garage theatre. Monaghan Friday […]
Monaghan 2nds 3 Ballymena 5ths 32 Monaghan 2nds headed to Eaton Park in Ballymena for the 2nd round of the Forster cup but found their hosts far too expierenced and wily for them. Ballymena 5ths is made up primarily of players who have retired from playing senior rugby for the club and now choose to […]
This was a game due to played at Rafeenan but a waterlogged pitch meant home advantage was given up and Monaghan ended up travelling to the cauldron of Armagh. Not to be put off by this decision, the Monaghan coaches were quietly confident after holding Armagh to a no score and convincingly putting 29 points […]
A fantastic squad turn out of 28 players saw Monaghan take on a potential banana skin in Omagh at Rafeenan this Saturday with a 1 o clock kick off. This in itself showed great determination and attitude amongst this group of lads to do well and work hard for each other. Monaghan received the ball […]
U11s and U10s U11’s stormed into the New Year with 2 wins against Cavan & Virgina at the weekend. The first game was against Cavan & was an energy sapping game played at pace, which Monaghan won 6-3. The second encounter was a more testing encounter with Virginia imposing themselves on the match midway through […]
MINIS U10s played 2 matches Saturday morning in Virginia. 12/01/13 First game v Cavan. Tight match. Two evenly balanced sides. Intense frontal exchanges from both teams. Game ended scoreless. Second game v Virginia. Monaghan started strongly turning over majority of opponents possession. Ferocious tackling in the middle of the park from all the team allied […]
MINIS U12S in Virginia Saturday 12th January 2013-01-13 Monaghan U12s travelled to Virginia on Saturday last to play two games against the hosts and Cavan RFC. The games were played were played on a rain soaked pitch making conditions difficult for everyone especially the normally free moving Monaghan backs. The first game v Virginia was […]
Sat 12th Jan Reulsts: Leterkenny 16 Monaghan 1’s 16 (league), Coleraine 5 Monaghan 2’s 17 (foster cup) MonaghanRFC U-14/15 33 – 0 VirginiaRFC U-14/15 2013 started off for this group of players last Friday night under the floodlights at Rafeenan in a very useful friendly match against a Virginia side that just failed to get […]
Congratulations to James Mc Mahon Tyholland and Lorcan Mc Gillan now living in Armagh who both featured in a game against the Ireland U20 squad, in Old Belvedere. James started at No 6 while Lorcan came on in the 2nd half at Fullback. Both players performed very well.
Rusty second IX see off 13 man CIYMS The game should have been sewn up after 20minutes with Monaghan in control but careless final touches left MN on the back foot instead, especially in the final 15mins of the first half. The bigger CI backs threw themselves at MN who blinked at the wrong time […]