The word all last week was that Tyrone might have been happier playing this one in Clones.

Ex-Dublin senior football performance coach Fergus Connolly reckons the Super 8 All-Ireland SFC quarter-final stages will be a detriment to Irish society.

Five races in this season’s F4 British Championship powered by Ford EcoBoost have whetted Lucca Allen’s appetite to make it to the top table of motor racing: Formula 1.

An elderly man is in a critical condition in hospital after a traffic collision in Co. Monaghan last night.

Gardaí targeting dissident republicans have uncovered a major cache of guns and bomb-making equipment in a search near the border.

Gardaí have recovered assault rifles and mortars in an investigation into dissident republicans.

Jamie Clarke will take his time before deciding whether to commit to Armagh next season.

A Monaghan dad of three is on a mission to travel Ireland and discover the real life stories behind modern Irish poverty.

A businessman who received a lucrative 25-year contract to house Ireland’s ill-fated e-voting machines from a close relative in charge of deciding who won the tender has been given a €50,000 pay-off to cancel the deal.

FROM bog snorkelling to rally driving, Monaghan is much more exciting than Patrick Kavanagh would have us believe.

The Cork footballers don’t draw a crowd even when they’re at home. Who are the supporters, then, who follow them even to Donegal and Derry? Michael Moynihan met one of the diehards

Heaven. He’s in heaven.

WE’RE at the Subiaco Oval in Perth. It’s the first Test. Sitting in the press box, I can see that Páraic Duffy has stationed himself at the edge of the tunnel where the players will come onto the pitch.

The search for one of the IRA’s so-called Disappeared victims has resumed in a vast bog near the Irish border.

The annual awards usually throw up a few surprises but there was an air of predictability at yesterday’s Dunlop Ireland Champions of Motorsport Awards ceremony at the Hilton Dublin Airport Hotel.

Connacht signed off with a best place finish in this season’s RaboDirect Pro12 League but Eric Elwood won’t be happy with this performance.

A BODY exhumed from a cemetery in Monaghan in the long-running search for a suspected teenage IRA victim who vanished in 1975 is not one of the so-called Disappeared.

A body exhumed from a cemetery in the long-running search for a teenage IRA victim murdered without trace in 1975 is not one of the so-called 'Disappeared'.

NICHOLAS MURPHY could be brought into the Cork attack when they take on Mayo this weekend.

A body exhumed from a churchyard cemetery where it was secretly buried is suspected to be a teenage IRA victim murdered 35 years ago.

FIVE years ago, Jack O’Connor’s Kerry escaped from Monaghan with a hard-earned one-point win and the Kingdom manager later pinpointed the experience as a crucial staging post on the county’s path towards another All-Ireland title.

NEMO Rangers defender Derek Kavanagh has called on GAA chiefs to review their system of selecting venues for major club games.

AMIDST the blizzard of colour and incessant din in last month’s All-Ireland semi-final, Paul Kerrigan kept calm.

A 25-year-old Monaghan man charged with possessing explosives has been released on bail after his father lodged €20,000 in an independent surety.

CORK football selector Terry O’Neill has defended their selection policy in this season’s All-Ireland championship and cites the strength of Cork’spersonnel reserves as a crucial factor in carrying them to Sunday’s All-Ireland decider.

All-Ireland SFC Quarter-Final

AS modes of recovery go, theirs was plucked straight from leftfield.

NFL DIVISION 1:

CORK forward Paul Kerrigan insists that the Rebels will be treating next weekend’s league meeting with Kerry the same as any other game.

MONAGHAN midfielder Dick Clerkin’s availability for Sunday’s NFL opener against Cork in Scotstown remains uncertain as he fights to overturn a one-month ban picked up in the Dr McKenna Cup.

THE FORENSICS team always warn to step back from the gory detail and survey the peripheral evidence.

SUNDAY brings a Munster Old Firm battle with a twist for Graham Canty. The Bantry man has become well-versed on Cork-Kerry football clashes in recent years, with his mission statement at full-back being to tame the man mountain that is Kieran Donaghy.

IT’S been a strong theme of Conor Counihan’s time in charge of Cork to dampen expectations and that habit was never going to broken yesterday.

IT’S not the trophy they crave, but yesterday’s NFL Division Two final success in Croke Park still gives the Cork footballers a nice fillip as they crank up their championship preparations.

THE marquee show tomorrow afternoon in Croke Park may be the Division One decider, but in terms of portents for the summer the Division Two final can be equally instructive.

SEAMUS McENANEY laughs when the theory is put to him that his Monaghan team might be playing ‘too well’ at this early stage of the year.

THREE years ago Cork journeyed to Castleblayney with fears of relegation on their minds.

WHEN Cork clipped Monaghan’s wings in the first ever competitive meeting between the sides on Leeside this time last year, we saw for perhaps the first time in Seamus McEnaney’s tenure as Monaghan manager, the frailties in his team that were to emerge a few times since.

Monaghan 1-12 Meath 0-10, Scotstown

Monaghan's Vincent Corey has dismissed comments that he is the next Kieran Donaghy after the DCU Sigerson Cup winner was moved to full-forward from full-back during the Farney county's championship matches against Tyrone and Donegal.