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Patrick McEleney & Brandon Kavanagh on Derry City’s FAI Cup semi final victory

Derry City booked their place in the FAI Cup final after they beat Treaty United 2-1 at the Ryan McBride Brandywell. Goals from Jamie McGonigle and Brandon Kavanagh had Ruaidhri Higgins men 2-0 up before an Enda Curran penalty pulled one back for the visitors. Both sides had chances in the second but neither could […]

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Letterkenny Gaels win first ever adult title as they claim Donegal Junior Football Championship

Letterkenny Gaels won their first ever adult title as a club after they beat Carndonagh 0-12 to 0-10 in O’Donnell Park on Sunday afternoon. Conor McBrearty was the top scorer for Gaels on the afternoon scoring four points but his teammate Ronan Frain who scored three points was named Man of the Match. Diarmaid Doherty

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Adrian Nesbitt and Darragh Murrin star as Naomh Ultan win Donegal Junior B Championship

Naomh Ultan won the Donegal Junior B Football Championship title on Sunday afternoon in O’Donnell Park. They beat Letterkenny Gaels 3-06 to 0-12 with all their scores coming from Adrian Nesbitt and Darragh Murrin. Nesbitt scored 2-1 whilst his forward partner Murrin notched 1-06 in the three point victory. After the game captain Adrian Nesbitt

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Government TD “hopeful” of positive relations with new British Government

A Government TD says he’s hopeful the Irish Government can have a positive relationship with the new British Government. Fine Gael TD Neale Richmond says Britain having a successful economy is in Ireland’s interest as well as the UK’s. New UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has warned of “difficult decisions” to come, as

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Gardaí to conduct “routine” door-to-door enquiries in Creeslough over coming weeks

Gardaí have advised residents in Creeslough that they will be conducting door-to-door enquiries in the area over the coming weeks. In a statement they said they “do not wish to cause any alarm or upset by calling to houses in which residents are unaware of our intention to do so”, and have asked people in

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Creeslough explosion scene to remain cordoned off for another two weeks, report claims

It has been reported that the scene of the Creeslough explosion may remain cordoned off for another two weeks, as investigators continue to look into the tragedy. Today’s Sunday Times reports that Gardaí received a court order on Friday to allow them to keep the scene preserved and off-limits for a further 14 day period.

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Inishowen Football League and FAI Junior Cup Results 16/10/2022

FAI Junior Cup Glengad United 1-0 AET Cockhill Youths Buncrana Hearts 3-0 Moville Celtic Aileach FC 7-0 Glaslough Jackie Crossan Premier Division Illies Celtic 3-3 Culdaff FC Strand Hotel First Division  QPS 1-2 Dunree United Redcastle United 3-2 Buncrana Res Carn FC 6-0 Greencastle Youth Clonmany Res 0-1 Aileach Res Inishowen Engineering Division Two  Cockhill

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Tributes paid to Clannad founding member Noel Duggan after sudden death

Tributes have been paid to Noel Duggan, a founding member of the group Clannad, after his sudden death at age 73. Clannad announced the news on social media, saying that Noel had passed suddenly in Donegal yesterday evening. Noel Duggan was the uncle of fellow founding members Enya, Ciarán Brennan, Moya Brennan and Paul Brennan,

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Martin Regan full of praise for his side following their Donegal SFC final victory

Naomh Conaill got their hands on another Dr Maguire cup after they beat St Eunan’s 1-09 to 2-05 in the Donegal Senior Football Championship final in MacCumhaill Park. Eoin McGeehin’s goal in the first half helped Rory Kavanagh’s men into the lead at the break but they were reduced to 14 men when Shane O’Donnell

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Charles McGuinness & Brendan McDyre happy to take Dr Maguire back to Naomh Conaill

Naomh Conaill are the Donegal Senior Football champions for 2022 after they claimed a one point victory over last years winners St Eunan’s. 1-09 to 2-05 was the full time score in MacCumhaill Park with Charles McGuinness netting for Martin Regan’s men. Brendan McDyre and Ciaran Thompson also contributed to seven points in the game

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Reaction: Naomh Conaill are Donegal Senior Football champions

Naomh Conaill claimed victory in the Donegal Senior Football Championship final on Saturday afternoon in MacCumhaill Park. Martin Regan’s men were  1-09 to 2-05 with their goal coming from Charles McGuinness. The Glenties men had key performances all over the pitch including from Ciaran Thompson who scored four points and Brendan McDyre who got three.

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Trillick captain Rory Brennan’s delight after winning Tyrone Div 1 Final

Trillick are the Tyrone 2002 Division One Champions. Photo: Trillick facebook page Extra-time was required before Trillick emerged victorious in the Tyrone Division One Senior League Final at Gardrum Park. They beat Killyclogher by 0-10 to 0-8. In the first half, they trailed by 0-5 to 0-2 but fought back to take the lead. Conal

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Strand Rovers hit copany for six – Donegal Junior League results

Strand Rovers continued their great start to the Glencar Inn Saturday Division One campaign as they chalked up another impressive win, this time hitting Copany Rovers for six. Today’s Donegal Junior League Saturday League results are listed below. Saturday 15th October, 2022 Glencar Inn Division One Arranmore United 0 vs 0 Glencar Celtic Drumoghill 1

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Bonagee United complete Youth treble with victory in John Gorey Curran Cup final

Bonagee United completed a youth treble on Friday evening by winning the John Gorey Curran Cup final over Milford United. 2-0 was how the game finished with Caolan Fox and Josh Maxwell grabbing the goals for Bonagee. The John Gorey Curran Cup adds to the Colin Breslin Youth Cup and Donegal Youth League, to make

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“Beloved” Robert Garwe and Shauna Flanagan-Garwe remembered at funeral service

Tributes have been paid to 5 year old Shauna Flanagan-Garwe and her father, 50 year old Robert Garwe, after their joint funeral today. Their funeral service is the last of the 10 victims of the Creeslough tragedy that happened 8 days ago. Robert was remembered by Fr John Joe Duffy as a loving and dedicated

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More to be done to lower waiting lists – Irish Patients Association

Concern has been raised that there isn’t enough being down to bring down hospital waiting list numbers. The Irish Patients Association says the latest figures show a little bit of an improvement – but not enough. The latest statistics from the National Treatment Purchase Fund show over 625,000 people are waiting for a first hospital

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Almost €1 million raised for Creeslough Community Support Fund

Members of the public can still donate to the Creeslough Community Support Fund as it reaches almost €1 million. The money will be used to assist people who have been bereaved, injured, made homeless or left without an income following the tragic events of last Friday. An Post, Applegreen and The Irish Red Cross are

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Yellow thunderstorm warning issued for Donegal this morning

Met Eireann has issued a status yellow warning for thunderstorms for County Donegal, as well as much of the western and southern coast this morning. The weather service has warned of heavy showers and thunderstorms, coupled with strong and gusty southwesterly winds and possible falls of hail. They also say disruption is expected, including spot

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Fishing industry must be consulted on offshore wind – IFPO

The Irish fishing industry says it has a right to be consulted about offshore wind farms because it affects the livelihoods of everyone. That’s according to Aodh O Donnell, the Killybegs based Chief Executive of the Irish Fish Producers Association, who says says every industry needs to co-operate to reduce fossil fuels but co-operation works

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Mark McSharry could be on his way back to Fianna Fail

Sligo Leitrim and South Donegal TD Marc MacSharry may be on his way back into Fianna Fáil. MacSharry left the Parliamentary Party describing Micheál Martin’s leadership as totalitarian. He was one of the biggest internal critics of Martin but could be voted back into the party at a meeting next Wednesday. Public Expenditure Minister Michael

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No offences detected during Human Trafficking searches in Donegal

It’s emerged that searches took place in Donegal and three other counties last month as part of a Europol operation against human trafficking for labour exploitation in the agricultural sector. No offences were detected in the Irish searches. Between the 14th and 21st of September 2022, the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats coordinated searches

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Searches carried out in Donegal in labour exploitation investigation

Searches have been carried out in Donegal as part of an international operation targeting labour exploitation. Searches were conducted in the counties of Meath, Dublin and Cavan also. The joint operation focused on human trafficking for labour exploitation in the agricultural sector between September 14th and 21st. It involved authorities in 16 countries. Gardaí and

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