Ulster Colleges 2010-2011

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Ladbrokes have priced the MacRory. Fancy prices on the outsiders!!


St Patricks Dungannon  2/1
Omagh CBS    11/4
St Colmans Newry    11/4
St Patricks Maghera    6/1
Abbey CBS Newry    7/1
St Michaels Enniskillen    10/1
St Patricks Armagh    20/1
St Macartans Monaghan 80/1
St Patricks Cavan    100/1
St Marys Magherafelt    100/1
St Michaels Lurgan    200/1

Obviously one group is much stronger than the other.  Are all games being played tomorrow?

St Patricks Dungannon  2/1
Omagh CBS    11/4
St Colmans Newry    11/4
St Patricks Maghera    6/1
Abbey CBS Newry    7/1
St Michaels Enniskillen    10/1
St Patricks Armagh    20/1
St Macartans Monaghan 80/1
St Patricks Cavan    100/1
St Marys Magherafelt    100/1
St Michaels Lurgan    200/1


Section A in blue
Section B in red

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Taken from Ulster Colleges website:



Champions off to good start

BT MacRory Cup : St Colman's Newry 2-8     St Patrick's Armagh 2-6

MacRory and Hogan Cup champions St Colman's Newry got this year's MacRory Cup campaign off to a positive start with a 2-8 to 2-6 victory over St Patrick's Armagh in Pairc Esler yesterday afternoon.

A penalty goal after 20 minutes from Paul McGeown pulled back St Colman's early advantage on the score-board and the teams were level 0-6 to 1-3 at the break.

However two goals midway through the second half, the first from Jerome Johnstone and the second from Keelin Haughey, looked like giving the champions the space to push on for a comfortable victory.

Armagh stood up to the challenge though and McGeown's second goal in the 55th minute narrowed the difference to a single point.

But Jerome Johnstone steadied the ship for St Colman's with a late score.

The next action is on Friday (3pm) in Threemilehouse between St Macartan's and Cavan while Killeshil is the venue on Saturday (11am) for Enniskillen and Abbey CBS.

St Colman's : Jerome Johnstone 1-1, Keelin Haughey 1-0, Ryan Johnstone 0-3, Caolan Mooney 0-2, Conor Gough 0-1.

St Patrick's : Paul McGeown 2-1, Simon McCoy 0-2, Ciaran McKeever 0-1, Conor McNally 0-1, Matthew Jones 0-1.

[FermGael]

I see Dom has had a good recruitment drive over the summer. 
Even got one of our Cavan neighbours to join

[Any craic]

Maghera won the Mageean Cup tonight, St Killians Garron Tower won the Casement Cup, at Casement.

[paco]

Maghera won the Mageean Cup tonight, St Killians Garron Tower won the Casement Cup, at Casement.

Any reports?

[Any craic]

Maghera won the McNamee as well. Here's a wee bit of video - http://vimeo.com/16104907

[Minder]

Maghera winning would be a small upset i suppose as they reckoned it was between Cross and Passion and St Marys who met in the semi.

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Paul Hughes has now won a Macrory and a Mageean as manager of Maghera!

[Carnview]

Paul Hughes has now won a Macrory and a Mageean as manager of Maghera!

When was he a manager/coach of a winning MacRory team?  Yes, he was part of many management teams with McNicholl and McGuckin but he was never outright manager/coach.

Anyhow, well done to St Pats on winning the Mageean and McNamee last evening.

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Taken from Ulster Colleges website:


Macartan's win again in MacRory

BT MacRory Cup : St Macartan's Monaghan   2-15 St Patrick's Cavan           1-9.

St Macartan's Monaghan picked up their second brace of points in the BT MacRory Cup, beating St Patrick's Cavan at Threemilehouse yesterday.

The Sem went 2-3 to 0-3 up inside the opening 10 minutes with goals from Mel Boyce and Christopher McKenna.

However Dara McVitty and Stephen Brady kept St Patrick's in touch and they turned around still those two goals in arrears 2-6 to 1-6.

At the start of the second half Monaghan shot seven wides in succession and were then knocked back by a goal from Andrew Graham.

However they recovered their composure and fired over some fine points in the last quarter to come through 2-15 to 1-9

St Macartan's : Mel Boyce 1-1, Christopher McKenna 1-0, Shane Carey 0-2, Ryan McGuigan 0-2, Liam Hahassey 0-2, Fergal McGeough 0-2, Padraig McKenna 0-2, Sean McKenna 0-1, James McAllister 0-1.

St Patrick's Cavan : Andrew Graham 1-1, Dara McVitty, 0-3, Stephen Brady 0-3, Paul Sweeney 0-1, Shane Kelly 0-1.

[FermGael]

St Michael's beat the abbey well this morning

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Enniskillen in Brilliant Form
Sat 23rd Oct 2010

BT MacRory Cup : St Michael's Enniskillen 3-21 Abbey 1-7

St Michael's Enniskillen laid down a strong marker for this year's BT MacRory Cup with a comprehensive defeat of Abbey CBS in Killeshil.

They dominated the first half with Sean Quigley and Richard Donnelly in top form and had the game in the bag at half time with a lead of 2-11 to 0-1 in response from Rory Keenan.

Quigley and John Joe Strain were the goal-scorers and Dominic Corrigan took the opportunity to blood a few substitutes in the second half.

It made for a more competitive game with Enniskillen's Kane Connor and Abbey's Shea Millar swapping goals.

However with 6 points each from Quigley, Eddie Courtney and Richard Donnelly, Enniskillen look capable of mounting a serious challenge on the recognised top four of Maghera, Dungannon, Omagh and holders St Colman's.

Dungannon, clear winners over Cavan in their opening game, are back in action on Monday when they take on St Mary's Magherafelt at MUSA (4pm).

St Michael's : Sean Quigley 1-6, John Joe Strain 1-1, Kane Connor 1-0, Eddie Courtney 0-6, Richard Donnelly 0-6, Aidan Breen 0-1, Nevin O'Donnell 0-1.

Abbey : Shea Millar 1-0, Rory Keenan 0-3, Daragh McAuley 0-2, Gerard McGovern 0-1, James Delahunt 0-1.






By all accounts Dom Corrigan has 'assembled' a very strong side this year and won't be far away at the end of the day.  I believe it was the same old Abbey tactics, annoy the hell out of the man off the ball and hope that this will be enough to win the game.  Enniskillen sound very strong.

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Taken from Ulster Colleges website:

Academy take 2 more MacRory points

BT MacRory Cup : St Patrick's Dungannon      3-14 St Mary's Magherafelt 1-14

St Patrick's Academy made it two wins from two starts yesterday when three second half goals nailed the points against St Mary's Magherafelt in an entertaining fixture in MUSA.

Conor McCann and Nathan Rocks more than held their own in the Magherafelt midfield and that gave their forward line a good supply with Aaron Devlin on 1-5 from play giving the Academy defence plenty of problems.

However there was still enough quality at the other end of the field to do the business for the Tyrone side, especially when Harry og Conlon came in as a sub at the start of the second half.

Scores from Devlin and Conor Kearns had levelled the match after the Academy had led 0-10 to 0-7 at the break.

Harry og then buried two goals in quick succession, before retiring to the bench with what looks like a recurrence of a hamstring problem.

Aaron Devlin reduced the arrears to a goal when he hit the net in the 48th minute, but a long ball from Kiefer Morgan fell loose in the Magherafelt goal area and Aidan McGarrity was on hand to stab it across the line and secure the points for the Academy.

St Mary's are back in action on Thursday, taking on Omagh CBS at Kildress (11am), while St Patrick's Maghera take their bow on Friday with a tie against holders St Colman's Newry at Derrytresk (11am).

St Patrick's Dungannon : Harry og Conlon 2-0, Aidan McGarrity 1-0, Liam Gervin 0-5, 0-2 frees, Ryan Devlin 0-3, Kiefer Morgan 0-2, Stefan lavery 0-2, Matthew Carbery 0-1 free, Dwayne Quinn 0-1.

St Mary's Magherafelt : Aaron Devlin 1-5, Conor Kearns 0-7, 0-6 frees, Niall Higgins 0-1, Antoin McElhome 0-1.


Dungannon putting up some big scores at present but a good showing from Magherafelt to run them close.  All to play for.

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Taken from Ulster Colleges website:

St Michael's Enniskillen 1-8      St Colman's Newry 1-7

St Michael's Enniskillen clinched a quarter-final spot in the BT MacRory Cup on Saturday with this narrow league victory over champions St Colman's Newry in Edendork.

However, the game could easily have finished level, but Caolan Mooney screwed a late free just wide of the mark.

Otherwise Mooney had a fine game as did Conor Gough and the defence, and the Violet Hill boys will still be a big force after Christmas

Dominic Corrigan brought in Tiarnan Daly and Richard Hyde from the subs' bench to start as the midfield pairing and both more than equipped themselves, freeing up Richard Donnelly to play at full-forward in the absence of Sean Quigley who had to play for his club Roslea in the Fermanagh Division 1 semi-final later in the afternoon.

Corrigan was more than pleased with the result achieved.

"We tried Tiarnan and Richard in the second half of the midweek match with Maghera and were confident that they could do well."

"It was a very tight game and we had to dig out a result for ourselves.  St Colman's could easily have won though. But from our point of view, there would have been a lot of pluses even if we had lost by a point or two."

Corrigan pointed to a period close to the break as the key time in the game for St Michael's.

They had been playing with the breeze at their backs but had just gone 1-4 to 0-3 down after Caolan Mooney had grabbed a goal for St Colman's, bringing his personal tally to 1-3 after 20 minutes.

Enniskillen however dug in and Aidan Breen and Richard Donnelly combined to release Mark Blake who rounded his marker and hit the roof of the net from 15 metres.

Points from Ruairi Corrigan and Donnelly saw Enniskillen turn around a point up, 1-5 to 1-4.

St Colman's hit back at the start of the second half with points from Tomas Mulholland and Conor Gough, but Enniskillen responded with two points from Donnelly and another from Mark Blake.

Despite conceding another single to Gough, Enniskillen's defence held firm and breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Mooney late free went, for them, the right side of the upright.

St Colman's have the Newry derby ahead of them next weekend, while Enniskillen's next match (v St Patrick's Armagh) isn't until 20th November.

St Michael's : B McAleer, N Shannon, R Porteus, K Connor, A Breen 0-1, L Leonard, R Brennan, T Daly, R Hyde, S Lynch, R Corrigan 0-1, B McCann, M Blake 1-2, R Donnelly 0-3, 0-2 frees, E Courtney.

Subs : B Owens for B McCann, J Duffy for M Blake.

St Colman's : M McNeill, D Brannigan, N Donnelly, C Doyle, R Mussen, E Magee, K Haughey, C Gough 0-2, P Matthews, T Mulholland 0-1, P Casey, C Mooney 1-3, 0-2 frees, T McGreevy 0-1, J Johnstone, S McArdle.

Subs : P Morgan for S McArdle.

Referee; M McErlean (Derry)

Fine result for St Michael's.  Seem to be motoring well cosidering there were missing 3 of there strongest players

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Ft
Omagh CBS 0-10
Dungannon 2-18

Injury worry as John McCullagh was substituted 20 min into the second half.