Ulster under 21 club championship

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All matches are scheduled for a throw in time of 2:00pm
Preliminary round:
Sat 23rd January : Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) V Naomh Pádraig, Donagh (Fermanagh)

First Round:
Sun 24th January: Naomh Conaill (Donegal) V Foreglen (Derry)

Sat 30th January: Truagh Gaels (Monaghan) V Omagh St. Endas (Tyrone)

Sun 31st January: Kickhams Creggan (Antrim) V Down Champions

Sat 6th February: Belturbet (Cavan) V Crossmaglen / Naomh Pádraig Donagh

(Semi-finals to be drawn after last first round match)

First Semi Final: Sat 13th February
Second Semi Final: Sat 14th February
Final Sunday 21st February

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All matches are scheduled for a throw in time of 2:00pm
Preliminary round:
Sat 23rd January : Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) V Naomh Pádraig, Donagh (Fermanagh)

First Round:
Sun 24th January: Naomh Conaill (Donegal) V Foreglen (Derry)

Sat 30th January: Truagh Gaels (Monaghan) V Omagh St. Endas (Tyrone)

Sun 31st January: Kickhams Creggan (Antrim) V Down Champions

Sat 6th February: Belturbet (Cavan) V Crossmaglen / Naomh Pádraig Donagh

(Semi-finals to be drawn after last first round match)

First Semi Final: Sat 13th February
Second Semi Final: Sat 14th February
Final Sunday 21st February

Burren should represent Down as they won last years under 20 competition!!!!

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St Pat's were defeated in the semi final of the Fermanagh equivalent last weekend,
Tempo and Belcoo play this weekend in the final.

Because of the weather, the competition ran late.

The best way forward apparently, was to draw one team out of the 4 remaining semi finalists.
It's a pity really as Tempo would have quite a strong team with a few of there players having played for the county
senior team.

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All matches are scheduled for a throw in time of 2:00pm
Preliminary round:
Sat 23rd January : Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) 5-21 Naomh Pádraig, Donagh (Fermanagh) 0-04

First Round:
Sun 24th January: Naomh Conaill (Donegal) 1-08 Foreglen (Derry) 0-10

Sat 30th January: Truagh Gaels (Monaghan) 3-04 Omagh St. Endas (Tyrone) 0-16

Sun 31st January: Kickhams Creggan (Antrim) 1-04 Burren(Down) 3-07

Sat 6th February: Belturbet (Cavan) 0-04 Crossmaglen Rangers 2-16

(Semi-finals to be drawn after last first round match)

First Semi Final: Saturday 13th February

Second Semi Final: Sunday 14th February

Final: Sunday 21st February

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So this is definately taking place it seems. Has come out of nowhere!
On the point of u21s bein a joke, those of you who think armagh is bad, u obviously havnt seen south downs attempt, pathetic! 6 teams max in it! From what I can gather, the last few years in armagh the u21 championship has been quite sucessful!

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Jeez, that's an awful trimming our lads gave to Donagh!!!

All matches are scheduled for a throw in time of 2:00pm
Preliminary round:
Sat 23rd January : Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) 5-21 Naomh Pádraig, Donagh (Fermanagh) 0-04

First Round:
Sun 24th January: Naomh Conaill (Donegal) 1-08 Foreglen (Derry) 0-10

Sat 30th January: Truagh Gaels (Monaghan) V Omagh St. Endas (Tyrone)

Sun 31st January: Kickhams Creggan (Antrim) V Down Champions

Sat 6th February: Belturbet (Cavan) V Crossmaglen Rangers

(Semi-finals to be drawn after last first round match)

First Semi Final: Sat 13th February

Second Semi Final: Sat 14th February

Final: Sunday 21st February

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AJ Gallagher goal sends Naomh Conaill into last four


NAOMH CONAILL 1-08
O'BRIENS, FOREGLEN 0-10


By Chris McNulty


A GOAL five minutes from time by substitute AJ Gallagher was the key score as Naomh Conaill booked their place in the semi finals of the inaugural Ulster U21 Club Championship by eking out a win over Foreglen from Derry in yesterday's quarter-final at Randalstown.

With the Glenties men leading by the narrowest of margins (0-8 to 0-7) as the game entered its final five minutes, Leo McLoone senior's team bagged the killer goal.

Leo McLoone fed captain and Man of the Match Eoin Waide with a clever diagonal ball that opened up the Foreglen defence. Waide, who played for Donegal on Saturday night, would have backed defender Martin Bradley to cut out his delivery, but the ball slipped through his fingers into the path of Gallagher, who drilled home from the edge of the square.

While points from Martin Farrell, Eoghan McFeely and Nigel Bradley brought Foreglen back into the contest, it was too little, too late as Naomh Conaill had done enough to come through a hard-fought encounter.

They have yet to complete their 2009 Donegal U21 Championship, indeed they are only at the quarter-final stage of that competition, but Naomh Conaill, having won the last three Donegal titles, were put up as the county's representatives in the first ever U21 Club Championship, held at the mightily impressive Kickhams Creggan club outside Randalstown.

Though young in years, it was a vastly experienced Naomh Conaill team that lined out yesterday, with a number of members of the club's senior team, which contested the senior county final in October, included.

Dara Gallagher and Eoin Waide came through Donegal's McKenna Cup match with St Mary's the previous evening and were included from the off.

With less than two minutes played, Naomh Conaill penetrated the Foreglen defence when Gallagher's ingenuity put midfielder Leo McLoone in the clear, but his attempt at goal was parried to safety by Joseph Ashford.

Dermot Molloy raised the game's first white flag on ten minutes when he got on the end of a McLoone pass to fire over. Gallagher doubled that advantage on the quarter-hour mark when he delivered a fine point off his left foot having collected a sublime cross-field ball by Molloy.

It took Foreglen 24 minutes to score their first point of the game, registered from a free by Nigel Bradley after Eoin Waide was penalised for a foul on Eunan McFeely.

That would be the County Derry team's only point of the opening half.

Meantime, Dermot Molloy took receipt of another McLoone pass to hit his second of the day and in stoppage time at the end of the half he knocked over his third - from a free, after a late hit on Dara Gallagher by Oisin Duffy.

Naomh Conaill hit six wides in the first 30 minutes and in the opening minutes of the second-half the sizeable following who made their way from Glenties must have been worried that their missed chances could return to haunt them.

Inside the first seven minutes after the re-start Nigel Bradley converted a pair of frees to move Foreglen to within a point, but Molloy responded with a free. Eoghan McFeely kept Foreglen within touching distance, as he popped over a majestic point from 45 metres, while a free by Martin Farrell came just a minute after Dara Gallagher pointed at the other end.

Naomh Conaill were finding the gears again, with Eoin Waide and Leo McLoone pulling the strings. Skipper Waide was fed by Dermot Molloy, whose power saw him regain possession, and the wing-back split the sticks from 30 metres.

Molloy defied the laws of trigonometry when he perfected his angles from the tightest of positions out the left, after a surging run from inside his own half by McLoone opened up the chance.

But Foreglen weren't going down without a stern fight and points by McFeely and Bradley pulled them from the brink again, only for them to be rocked by the concession of AJ Gallagher's goal on 55 minutes.

Despite Foreglen applying a good deal of pressure late on, Naomh Conaill held on.

For the winners, Cathal Ellis, Stephen Molloy, Dermot Molloy, Leo McLoone and Eoin Waide were on song, with the latter being named the Man of the Match.

Naomh Conaill: Stephen McGrath; Martin Gallagher, Ciaran Boyle, Stephen Molloy; Jamie McHugh, Cathal Ellis, Eoin Waide (0-1); Callan Waide, Leo McLoone; Dermot Molloy (0-5, 2f), Seamus Corcoran, Dara Gallagher (0-2, 1f); Christopher Molloy, Joe Kennedy, Brian Quinn. SUBS: Jamie Molloy for C.Waide (36 mins); AJ Gallagher (1-0) for McHugh (41 mins); David Gallagher for C.Molloy (57 mins); John Molloy for Kennedy (60 mins).

Foreglen: Joseph Ashford; Ruairi Duffy, Shane Duffy, Kevin O'Neill; Paul Kealey, Oisin Duffy, Darren O'Kane; Ciaran McFeely, Mark McCormick; Cathal O'Hara, Nigel Bradley (0-5, 3f), Martin Farrell (0-2, 2f); Eoghan McFeely (0-3), Sean Campbell, Eunan McFeely. SUB: Martin Bradley for Kealey (half-time);

Referee: Owen Quinn (Antrim).

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All matches are scheduled for a throw in time of 2:00pm
Preliminary round:
Sat 23rd January : Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) V Naomh Pádraig, Donagh (Fermanagh)

First Round:
Sun 24th January: Naomh Conaill (Donegal) V Foreglen (Derry)

Sat 30th January: Truagh Gaels (Monaghan) V Omagh St. Endas (Tyrone)

Sun 31st January: Kickhams Creggan (Antrim) V Down Champions

Sat 6th February: Belturbet (Cavan) V Crossmaglen / Naomh Pádraig Donagh

(Semi-finals to be drawn after last first round match)

First Semi Final: Sat 13th February
Second Semi Final: Sat 14th February
Final Sunday 21st February

So the semi finals will clash with the MacRory cup quarter finals!!!!!

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Club News
St Pats U21's met an impressive Crossmaglen team on Saturday and suffered a huge defeat. The best of Fermanagh probably wouldn't have beat the odds on favourites, the lads can learn from this and maybe if the Fermanagh competition is run better, then teams within the county can compete with the likes of Crossmaglen.

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First Round:
Sun 24th January: Naomh Conaill (Donegal) 1-08 Foreglen (Derry) 0-10

Sat 30th January: Truagh Gaels (Monaghan) V Omagh St. Endas (Tyrone)

Sun 31st January: Kickhams Creggan (Antrim) V Burren(Down) 

Sat 6th February: Belturbet (Cavan) V Crossmaglen Rangers


Truagh Gaels 1-02 Omagh St Endas 0-10 HT

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Truagh Gaels 3-04 Omagh St Endas 0-16

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Creggan 0-00 Burren 1-01

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Creggan 0-00 Burren 3-01

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Creggan 0-01 Burren 3-01

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Creggan 0-02 Burren 3-01