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Replying To latefortraining:  "Primary school enrolment figures 2025/2026

Parish of Muckno , Castleblayney, Blackhill and Oram , 3 schools , Castleblayney Convent Infants National School ,
SCOIL MHUIRE BNS and SCOIL NAOMH PADRAIG total male students 348 boys

Scotstown catchment , 3 schools , ST DYMPNAS NS Tedavnet , ST JOSEPHS N S KNOCKATALLON and URBLESHANNY N S total male students 250 boys."
If your going to compare apples to apples there is more than 3 schools in the Muckno parish

farneygael (Monaghan) - Posts: 355 - 20/10/2026 23:29:31    2698069

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Predictions for this weekend:
Drumhowan V Aghabog: shot to nothing for Aghabog, nobody only themselves thought they would be at this stage of the championship. Pressure off now with promotion secured so they will be up for it. How Oisin Gleason does on shutting down going Doherty will be the deciding factor in this game. Drumhowan won't be expecting much of a match, so Aghabog to pip them by 2 points for me

Ballybay v Donaghmoyne: Expecting a close high quality contest, can see a draw and extra time in this one. Battle of the lefties in Davy Garland v Shane McGuinness. Donaghmoyne younger legs to see them over the line in ET

Monaghanmad123 (Monaghan) - Posts: 84 - 21/10/2026 10:53:16    2698086

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Replying To farneygael:  "If your going to compare apples to apples there is more than 3 schools in the Muckno parish"
Annalitten National School , Aughnafarcon National school Not Muckno , these schools are in Donaghmoyne catchment , Central School Castleblayney has no gaa representation as far as i am aware they do not avail of the Monaghan Coaching and development schools programme , but i could be wrong,

latefortraining (Monaghan) - Posts: 144 - 21/10/2026 11:27:05    2698092

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Replying To latefortraining:  "Annalitten National School , Aughnafarcon National school Not Muckno , these schools are in Donaghmoyne catchment , Central School Castleblayney has no gaa representation as far as i am aware they do not avail of the Monaghan Coaching and development schools programme , but i could be wrong,"
Annalitten National School is Muckno parish. You also have the Irish school in Castleblayney.

monman91 (Monaghan) - Posts: 53 - 21/10/2026 12:23:34    2698101

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Replying To monman91:  "Annalitten National School is Muckno parish. You also have the Irish school in Castleblayney."
Annalitten players tend to go to Toome.. likewise the Oram school which was mentioned earlier feeds the Oram team. The GaelScoil has children from all around the catchment area and play for as wide an area as Latton, Ballybay, Drumhowan, Aughnamullen, Donaghmoyne,

Farney (Monaghan) - Posts: 841 - 21/10/2026 17:38:20    2698147

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Replying To 222:  "A few factors scotsown took their eye off the ball and generational players dropped off from the 80s no doubt. Plus you had blayney and then clontibret who like scotsown now had generational players who won numerous championships. Scotsown laid their ground work in the early 2000s with juvenile success, the dam burst in 2013 and they have cleaned up since, they have created a culture to push on covering what's needed to be successful. They have been able to produce better players then the other big clubs over the past 20 years. But the pick does help when you strip it all back."
And it's what they're doing different now, that other clubs are not that I'm keen to know. We've too many large clubs achieving very little and it's going to lead us back to very barren days with the county team.

I read lately that Andy Moran held an open training session with all the coaches and managers of clubs in attendance, and basically pleaded with them to change the way they do things - the lack of joined up thinking was killing them. We definitely need some sort of accountability given the current state of our club scene.

Jjoniel79 (Monaghan) - Posts: 295 - 21/10/2026 19:10:32    2698155

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