McKenna Cup 2024

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Cavan v Monaghan 
Monaghan manager Seamus McEnaney is expected to keep faith with his new faces despite the defeat by Queen's in their opening McKenna Cup game. The Belfast students enjoyed a 0-10 to 0-09 win at Clones last Sunday in the Group C fixture. Monaghan will be using the McKenna competition to find new players. Thomas Freeman is expected to again play some part for Monaghan as his eight-week ban only covers club games.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7173420.stm

[An Laoch]

Boylesports were a huge 7/2 for a UUJ win this morning. Moved to 5/2 after someone's bet hinted that the price was wrong.

[Our Nail Loney]

Anyone know where I can get team lists for the matches today?? BBC arent too helpful

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Tyrone v UUJ Sunday 6th January 2008

FINAL SCORE TYRONE 0-9 UUJ 0-12

Colm McCullagh converts an easy free to give Tyrone a late consolation point, both sides finishing the match with 14 men after Dominic Hands had to be carried off on his debut with all substitutions made. It's Tyrone's first McKenna Cup defeat in nearly five years (Tyrone 0-9 UUJ 0-12)

Jordanstown substitute John Boyle gives the students a four-point lead once again with their  twelfth point of the afternoon (Tyrone 0-8 UUJ 0-12)

Tyrone substitute Aidan McCarron leaves three points between the sides with three minutes left as he slots over a 13 metre free after a foul on Davy Harte (Tyrone 0-8 UUJ 0-11)

With ten minutes left Dominic Hands reduces the deficit to four points with a point from a close-in free kick, his second score of the game (Tyrone 0-7 UUJ 0-11)

Mark Lynch stylishly curls over a left-footed point from the left wing, moments after Colm Cavanagh receives a red card after an off the ball incident involving Colin Holmes, who picks up a yellow card (Tyrone 0-6 UUJ 0-11)

Davy Harte and Colin Holmes combine to set up Gary Reilly for his second point of the day, a well taken score with his left foot (Tyrone 0-6 UUJ 0-10)

Ciaran Donnelly strengthens Jordanstown's position further with a brilliant turn and point from out on the right wing, his fourth point of the match (Tyrone 0-5 UUJ 0-10)

Derry's Mark Lynch promptly restores Jordanstown's half-time lead from a free kick (Tyrone 0-5 UUJ 0-9)

Davy Harte gives Tyrone a good start to the second half with a cool finish from out on the left wing, after a Jordanstown defender almost fisted into his own net (Tyrone 0-5 UUJ 0-8)

Paul Marlow is brought into the Jordanstown team for the second half to join fellow Tyrone men Damian McCaul, Brendan Boggs, Colm Cavanagh, Raymond Mulgrew and Ciaran Donnelly in the UUJ colours

Tyrone make three changes for the second half with P J Quinn, Colin Holmes and Colm McCullagh replacing Fabian O'Neill, Conal Martin and Kevin McNally

The half-time whistle arrives with Jordanstown holding a deserved four-point lead, 0-8 to 0-4, with five of their scores coming from Tyrone men, Ciaran Donnelly, Raymond Mulgrew and Brendan Boggs. Tyrone's four points were registered by Dominic Hands, Gary Reilly, Tommy McGuigan and Kevin McNally.

Carrickmore's Kevin McNally, one of seven Tyrone debutants, opens his Tyrone account with a neat pointed free from out near the right corner (Tyrone 0-4 UUJ 0-8)

Brendan Boggs, one of five Tyrone men in the UUJ line-up, swings over a superb long-range point to increase Jordanstown's lead (Tyrone 0-3 UUJ 0-8)

Raymond Mulgrew puts a great ball inside to allow Andy Moran to stroke over his second point of the game and give UUJ a four-point cushion (Tyrone 0-3 UUJ 0-7)

Mayo man Andy Moran restores Jordanstown's three -point advantage with a close-in point (Tyrone 0-3 UUJ 0-6)

The best point of the day so far comes from the boot of Tommy McGuigan who makes a difficult angle look easy with a sweet strike from the left wing (Tyrone 0-3 UUJ 0-5)

A foul on Mark Lynch enables Ciaran Donnelly to hit his third pointed free inside five minutes (Tyrone 0-2 UUJ 0-5)

Brocagh man Ciaran Donnelly converts another free from the left wing to give Jordanstown a two-point lead over the McKenna Cup holders (Tyrone 0-2 UUJ 0-4)

Another Tyrone man Ciaran Donnelly sends UUJ back into the lead with a pointed free from 30 metres out (Tyrone 0-2 UUJ 0-3)

The first goal chance of the day falls to the Red Hands as Owen Mulligan passes inside for debutant Gary Reilly whose shot rises just too much and goes over the bar for a second Tyrone equaliser (Tyrone 0-2 UUJ 0-2)

Jordanstown regain the lead when Tyrone star Raymond Mulgrew thumps over a superb point from the right wing (Tyrone 0-1 UUJ 0-2)

Tyrone equalise when Shaun O'Neill feeds the ball back to fellow debutant Dominic Hands and the Dungannon man neatly slots the ball between the posts (UUJ 0-1 Tyrone 0-1)

Jordanstown take a 2nd minute lead with an excellent finish from Monaghan midfielder Brendan McKenna (UUJ 0-1 Tyrone 0-0)


Tyrone Team -  J Devine, F O'Neill, C McCarron, M Swift, D Harte, C Gourley, D Carlin, C Martin, T McGuigan, D Hands, O Mulligan, G Reilly, K McNally, S O'Neill, E McGinley
Subs: P J Quinn for F O'Neill, C Holmes for C Martin, C McCullagh for K McNally, M Penrose for E McGinley, Aidan McCarron for O Mulligan

UUJ Team - C Murdock, C Harrison, D McCaul, D Morgan, B Boggs, P McGuigan, D Hughes, C Cavanagh, B McKenna, R Mulgrew, B Gormley, C Donnelly, A Moran, T McCann, M Lynch
Subs: Paul Marlow, John Boyle, James Colgan, Terry O'Flanigan

Sourced Tyronegaa.ie: http://www.tyronegaa.ie/county/football/news/story.jsp?newsid=494

Fast work by the website. Hopefully this will be the thing to come in 2008.

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Results: McKenna Cup 
Sunday 6 January
Group A
ST MARY'S 1-11 1-18 FERMANAGH

ARMAGH 0-6 2-9 DERRY

Group B

UUJ 0-12 0-9 TYRONE

Group C

CAVAN 0-15 1-9 MONAGHAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7173876.stm

[never kickt a ball]

Armagh 0-6 2-9 Derry
Peter McDonnell's first match in charge of Armagh ended in a nine-point defeat by Derry in their opening Gaelic Life McKenna Cup match at Davitt Park. Derry were a goal and two points up early on with Sean Leo McGoldrick tucking away a fourth-minute goal.  Armagh's Stefan Forker missed a penalty but he landed two frees to cut Derry's lead to 1-4 to 0-5 at half-time.  Brian Mallon scored Armagh's only point of the second half with McGoldrick getting another goal for Derry. Oak Leaf forward Enda Lynn won the man of the match award.
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7173922.stm

[wdusln]

not bad from a tyrone point of view. mickey will have been glad to see so many tyrone boys get competitive action. Mulgrew was the difference, referee seemed to be on another planet! thought at one time he was whistling for marks, aussie rules style!

[Orior]

Couldnt see anything to be optimistic about the Armagh performance. Forker scored two points but missed about 4, or 7 if you include the penalty.

[BallyhaiseMan]

Understrength Cavan team beat an understrength Monaghan team 0-15 to 1-09,

Some good scores.

Monaghan threw on some of the big guns, McQuaid,JP Mone,Tommy Freeman and Rory Woods to try and make a game of it 

[Our Nail Loney]

Good to see your young fella Lynn get MOM today, he showed very well

Am I right in thinking there was an article about him in the Gaelic Life a month or so ago touting him as the next big thing or is my mind playing tricks on me?

[never kickt a ball]

UUJ 0-12 0-9 Tyrone
UUJ inflicted Tyrone's first McKenna Cup defeat in five years with this win at Omagh on Sunday. The holders faced a students side which contained six Red Hands senior players and they inflicted much of the damage. Ciaran Donnelly, Raymond Mulgrew and Brendan Boggs scored against their home county as a fitter UUJ led a new-look Tyrone 0-8 to 0-4 at the break. UUJ's Colm Cavanagh, another Tyrone man, was sent off for two yellow cards in a tight second half. Donnelly sent over three points in the opening half in front of 3,885 spectators at Healy Park. Cavanagh was dismissed 18 minutes into the second half but his absence failed to make a difference to the balance of the game. It is a second win in four days for Jordanstown after they defeated Donegal 2-13 to 1-12 on Thursday.
The Red Hands are chasing a fifth straight triumph in the McKenna Cup.
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7174027.stm

[tyroneman]

Strange start to the new year seeing Tyrone outplayed in the Mckenna.

Glad MH used this to blood new players though, about time we saw what is coming up through the ranks.Thought throughout the game Tyrone were very sluggish, students (obviously) much sharper. Few options for Tyrone players on the ball and the amount of good posession wasted through kicks to nowhere was sinfull. Thought Tyrone had too many players staying narrow, through the middle and failed to use the width of the field as much as they could have. Shooting too was very poor - no-one prepared to have a go from outside 25-30.

Positives:
-Snowy O'Neill: showed and fought for everything, was best Tyrone player on show.
-McCarron: looked comfortable enough at FB after a few first half jitters.
-Unfit, minus several players and with no MF in the first half we stayed in the game rightly.
-The Tyrone players on the UUJ side were immense. Mulgrew a class apart and bodes well for the NFL. There were six on the student team at one stage, almost like Tyrone c vs b.

Negatives:
-Fabian: not county class. Roasted all half and rightly taken off at HT.
-MF in first half, non existant.
-Tommy McGuigan: time and time again gave away posession under no pressure whatsoever. Expected much much more.

On the whole if we get 3-4 players who will compete for 1st 15 spots from the McKenna then happy days.

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St Mary's 1-11 1-18 Fermanagh
Fermanagh eased to a seven-point victory over the students in their McKenna Cup opener at Lisnaskea.
John Cunningham's fifth minute goal helped St Mary's into an early lead but the Ernemen hit back and Shaun Doherty netted on 18 minutes. Both sides had periods of dominance in the first half but Fermanagh held a commanding 1-11 to 1-5 half-time lead. St Mary's scored three points without reply after the break but Fermanagh stayed in command to claim the points.
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7174024.stm

Looks like St Mary's might be the weaker of the University sides. Either that or Fermanagh are flying - time will tell.

[orangeman]

I think MH is using the Mc Kenna cup to give a lot of players a run - a lot of people were saying - why doesn't he try this one and that one - today he did and found out a lot - and I'd say he'll use the rest of the Mc Kenna cup to do the same thing.

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Dr McKenna Cup round-up
Sunday, 6 January 2008 19:59
Tyrone's grip on the Gaelic Life Dr McKenna Cup was loosened somewhat at Omagh this afternoon as a hungry UUJ side handed the Red Hands their first defeat in the competition in five years. The Jordanstown students, who defeated Donegal in snowy conditions on Thursday, lined out with six Tyrone players and were full value for their 0-12 to 0-9 win. Red Hand squad members Ciaran Donnelly, Raymond Mulgrew and Brendan Boggs all scored against their home county as UUJ took a 0-8 to 0-4 lead into the second half. UUJ had Colm Cavanagh, another one of their Tyrone contingent, sent off for two yellow cards during the second period. Just as he did against Donegal, Donnelly caught the eye by notching three fine points in the first half. In front of a 3,885-strong Healy Park crowd, three successive frees from Brocagh man Donnelly nudged UUJ into a 0-5 to 0-2 lead. Tommy McGuigan replied for Tyrone with a excellent point from a tight angle on the left but Mayo's Andy Moran landed two points in reply, the second set up by the impressive Mulgrew. Boggs then got his name on the scoresheet to move UUJ 0-8 to 0-3 ahead before Carrickmore's Kevin McNally, one of seven Tyrone debutants on show, pointed a free from the right to narrow the gap for the champions to four points. Tyrone boss Mickey Harte brought PJ Quinn, Colin Holmes and Colm McCullagh into the fray for the second half and a point from Davy Harte got the Red Hands off to a good start. But two points from Derryman Mark Lynch, UUJ's captain, helped them move 0-11 to 0-6 clear, just moments after Cavanagh received his marching orders for an off-the-ball clash with Holmes. Dominic Hands, who scored with a close range free, and substitute Aidan McCarron, who pointed a free after a foul on Davy Harte, reduced the arrears for Tyrone to 0-11 to 0-8 with three minutes remaining. Debutant Hands had to be carried off near the finish as his injury came after Tyrone had emptied their bench, meaning the sides saw out the game with 14 players each. Substitute John Boyle registered UUJ's final point before Tyrone's McCullagh got a late consolation score from a placed ball.

Meanwhile, an under-strength Armagh outfit lost 2-9 to 0-6 to Derry in their new manager Peter McDonnell's first game in charge. Derry took charge of this Davitt Park encounter early on with Sean Leo McGoldrick finding the net in the fourth-minute, but two points from Stefan Forker, who also missed a penalty, got Armagh back in touch by half-time. The Orchard county trailed by 1-4 to 0-5 at the break but could only add a single point during a forgettable second half - Brian Mallon being the scorer. Helped by a man-of-the-match performance from Enda Lynn, Derry kept the pressure on and were rewarded with a second goal for McGoldrick. At Lisnakea, St Mary's lose their grip on an early lead as they went down to Fermanagh on a 1-18 to 1-11 scoreline. The sides swapped goals - John Cunningham's netted for the students in the fifth-minute and Shaun Doherty raised a green flag for Fermanagh in the 18th-minute - before the Ernesiders pulled 1-11 to 1-5 clear by the break. Cavan won this afternoon's McKenna Cup derby match at Kingspan Breffni Park - they beat their neighbours Monaghan by 0-15 to 1-9. A 30th-minute goal from Eoin Duffy kept Monaghan in the hunt as Cavan took a 0-9 to 1-2 lead into the interval. Jason O'Reilly kept the men in blue ticking and he top-scored with four points. 2007 All-Star Thomas Freeman was sprung from the bench, midway through the second half, for the Farney men and he bagged three points.
Story from RTÉ Sport:
http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2008/0106/mckenna.html