Monaghan flexed their muscles to power past Cavan 2-22 to 0-20 at Kingspan Breffni Park in their Allianz Football League Division 2 clash.

So with Monaghan on my mind, I started rereading from a collection, A Poet’s Country, featuring selected prose from Patrick Kavanagh, the poet who made famous the stony grey soil of that country.

Thirty years ago tomorrow - the first Sunday in April 1985 - Monaghan enjoyed an achievement that had eluded them in the previous 101-year history of the GAA.

A GAA pitch in Monaghan is not the only place in Ireland susceptible for sinkholes, as a new map clearly shows.

Clinching evidence of this is that F Julia’s husband – “Major Bolton”, a former High Sheriff of Monaghan – had lands not only in Donaghmoyne, but also on the aforementioned plains of ...

CONROY Gold shares jumped by almost 10pc after the company revealed it has discovered more gold at its Clontibret mine in Co Monaghan.