Their boss ‘Banty’ McEnaney has effectively worked off a core of just 20 players so far this League campaign, writes Paul Keane.

A combination of their first three Allianz League performances was what Monaghan manager Seamus McEnaney wanted against Mayo yesterday in Clones. He got that and more.

The Jim Gavin and Malachy O'Rourke eras, both successful seven-season long periods, ran virtually concurrently between 2013 and 2019; Gavin managing Dublin for 2,616 days and O'Rourke Monaghan for 2,476.

The difference between the haves and the have nots has been occupying Seamus McEnaney’s thoughts ahead of the biggest test in the game.

There’s an undeniable feelgood factor about Galway football since Padráic Joyce took charge, but with tougher tasks on the horizon, there were enough holes in this display to ensure their supporters don’t lose the run of themselves.

Tyrone manager Mickey Harte is set to postpone his annual January cull due to an injury crisis ahead of the start of the Allianz League.

McKenna Cup specialists Tyrone lifted their eighth title in nine seasons with an uninspiring win over Monaghan at the Athletic Grounds.

Rory Beggan says Seamus McEnaney is a “positive presence” in the Monaghan dressing-room and is excited about playing under him for the first time.

Refereeing Kilkenny-Tipperary Championship games this decade were like walking on a cliff edge.

A year after stepping away as Mayo selector, Tony McEntee is in the frame for a return to inter-county management with Monaghan.

A charity that brings Christmas to disabled orphans in Belarus estimates it has lost hundreds of euro after one of its collection buckets was stolen over the weekend.

Mickey Harte was last night re-appointed as Tyrone senior football manager for a 16th season, ending speculation that his reign was about to come to an end.

On the face of it, Davy Fitzgerald and Seamus McEnaney couldn’t be more different. Football matters as little to Fitzgerald as hurling would to McEnaney. Wexford managers have been known to verbally spar in the past, but last Tuesday evening this pair took tea in the county’s centre of excellence in Ferns and found they have plenty in common

The GAA’s former referees chief Pat McEnaney insists there is nothing inherently wrong with the black card.

Former Monaghan and Meath manager Seamus McEnaney has called for the introduction of a countdown clock in football when teams are awarded a scorable free.

At the behest of a reader and a Kilkenny friend of ours, we took another look at Barry Kelly’s decision to overturn a Tipperary 65 last Sunday week. 

Dublin held off a stiff challenge from Monaghan to prevail in their TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC quarter-final at St Tiernach’s Park in Clones this afternoon.

Nine years Conor McManus has spent in the Monaghan shirt, on but one occasion was he overlooked.

University of Limerick 3-16 Dublin City University 0-9

Outgoing GAA national referees chairman Pat McEnaney said he learned very little about hurling during his three-year term. 

Speaking to Newstalk last month, resident hurling pundit Daithi Regan made a telling remark about the state of refereeing in hurling.

Why don’t the “powers that be’ in Croke Park leave our great game of hurling alone? They are forever tinkering with the rules.

Kilkenny legend Eddie Keher and referees chief Pat McEnaney have taken issue with the Hurling 2020 committee’s proposal to make a second yellow card an automatic substitution offence — but for different reasons.

Pat McEnaney would like to see the use of two referees in hurling experimented with in the National League.

Pat McEnaney says he feels let down by Cork secretary Frank Murphy’s criticism of inter-county football referees.

Tipperary football chairman Joe Hannigan last night hailed the new Munster senior football championship as "the most equitable option."

Referees chief Pat McEnaney admits inter-county football referees are missing obvious black card offences for deliberate pull-downs.

The late American journalist Heywood Broun once said that sport doesn’t build character - it reveals it.

Ah, August. That time of the year when referees are that bit slower to reach for the whistle and shy away from making the big calls.

Arising from concerns about conversion rates, referees chief Pat McEnaney revealed there will be an analysis of how many goals are scored from penalties and 20-metre frees in the remainder of the hurling championship.

By Peter O'Dwyer

Referees chief Pat McEnaney insists the Championship football panel have mastered the majority of black card decisions.

Chairman of the National Referee Committee Pat McEnaney has admitted that criticism of the application of the controversial black card rule is justified but has insisted that GAA officials are up to the task of implementing the rule effectively.

Some might say it was a curse. Before David Coldrick there was Kevin Walsh.

Pat McEnaney believes a repeat of the refereeing standards seen in last year’s championship will be more than satisfactory this summer.

It hasn’t gone away, you know.

Referees chief Pat McEnaney is pleased with how the black card is operating in Gaelic football but concedes officials have been making some errors in applying the new rules.

Bless us, reader, for we have sinned. Again. On Sunday evening coming home from Salthill, we put in a call to a referees’ assessor.

Munster’s national referees committee representative, Willie Barrett, maintains yellow and red cards must be retained in hurling as they are integral to the understanding of the game.

At the height of the often bitter Galway-Tipperary rivalry in the late 1980s, Nicky English’s free-taking technique was a bone of contention for many in the west.

No alarms and no surprises was the assessment of referees chief Pat McEnaney after the black card made its bow in senior inter-county football last weekend.

1. Páraic Duffy, Director general

GAA referees chief Pat McEnaney admits the black card could see an escalation in the number of players feigning fouls.