Too little, too late as Farney go down

ULTIMATELY they went down anyway — but not without a fight.

Unfortunately for Monaghan, soon after the final whistle sounded on their first win for nine weeks, they learnt their fate had been decided far from Inniskeen.

Results elsewhere had condemned Eamonn McEneaney’s squad to relegation to Division 2 and a string of narrow defeats against Armagh, Dublin and Cork took their toll.