Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Acadh Bog, Co. Monaghan
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Aghabog GFC Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Acadh Bog, Co. Monaghan |
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The club was for a long time viewed as the whipping boys of Monaghan football, a fact that owed more to a limited population than any lack of enthusiasm. While the club floundered in junior football, its supporters ensured that the club maintained its energy and Pairc Emmet was opened in its original guise in 1982.
The club’s fortunes were transformed in the early nineties and success in the Dr. Ward Cup (junior league) catapulted the club from the shackles of junior ranks. Success in the Fr. Hackett Cup in 1994 (intermediate league) soon followed and Aghabog took the unprecedented step into senior football. Since then the club has drifted between the top two divisions of Monaghan football, the most recent success being in 2003 with the capture of a long coveted Championship trophy in Intermediate ranks.
The ladies club has been to the fore of football in Co. Monaghan since the game first rose to prominence in the early nineties. The ladies club can proudly boast county and provincial championship honours. The club also had a strong presence on both All Ireland winning Monaghan teams helping to establish Aghabog as a stronghold for ladies football.
The club installed a Prunty playing pitch in 1995 and is constantly developing its facilities. The opening of a new clubhouse in 2000 had a wider impact on the local community, providing the area with its first public house.
Robert Emmet was born in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin in 1778 and educated at Trinity College. His strong nationalist sympathies led him to abandon his education there in 1798. He left Ireland in 1800 and travelled to France where he sought French help in a planned uprising in Ireland. He returned to Ireland in 1802 and was to the fore in the uprising that followed in July 1803. Emmet’s march on Dublin Castle ultimately ended in failure and he fled to the safety of the Wicklow Mountains. He returned not long after to be near his beloved Sarah Curran and was captured by the British. Emmet was tried and sentenced to hanging. His impassioned speech from the scaffold of his execution cemented his place as an Irish national hero:
“My lords, you are impatient for the sacrifice. The blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim; it circulates warm and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purpose, but which you are now bent to destroy for purposes so grievous that they cry to heaven. Be yet patient! I have but a few more words to say. I am going to go to my cold and silent grave. My lamp of life is nearly extinguished. My race is run. The grave opens to receive me and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world. It is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace; and my tomb remain uninscribed and my memory in oblivion until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then let my epitaph be written. I have done."
The junior team are beaten by Sean Mc Dermotts in the championship final at Scotstown in front of 3,000 spectators. Final score Aghabog 1-06 Seans 1-08
Club Wins the reserve league Crawley Cup - first adult trophy in 54 years.Team The reserve team went on to claim the reserve championship, Mc Keown Cup, with a win over Killanny.Team
Declan Smyth named Monaghan Junior Player of the Year.
The junior team beat Carrickmacross to claim the Dr. Ward Cup and the club is promoted to intermediate status.Team
Pairc Emmet is oficially re-opened on 19 May after the installation of a 'Prunty Pitch'. Monaghan play Westmeath at the opening.
Relegated to divison 2 along with Aughnamullen.
Reserves beat Drumhowan to win the division 5 league title and are promoted to division 4.Team
The club reaches the Senior Championship Semi-final losing narrowly to Truagh.
The season ends with relegation to intermediate ranks.
Reserves lose out to Aughnamullen in the Reserve League Division 3 final.
Declan Smyth is named Monaghan's Intermediate Player of the Year.
Club hosts a ceremony to commemorate the St. Brigid's camogie club and James Travers of Calliagh who was a noted promoter of camogie at both club and county level.
Club hosts a reunion event for players from 1955-60.
An Aghabog/Currin amalgamation win the U-16 league and championship double
final Aghabog 0-12 Currin 0-4 Team
final Aghabog 0-9 Killanny 0-6 Team
final Aghabog 4-7 Tyholland 3-6 Team
final Aghabog 0-10 Carrickmacross 0-7 Team
final Aghabog 3-12 Inniskeen 2-12 Team
final Aghabog 0-5 Inniskeen 0-3 Team
final Aghabog Drumhowan Team
final Aghabog 0-10 Tyholland 1-6 Team
final Aghabog 1-12 Doohamlet 1-11 Team
final Aghabog 2-07 Currin 0-09
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