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Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship Quarter Finals MacCumhaills 0-15 v 0-26 St Michael’s Kilcar 1-10 V 0-16 Gweedore Senior Championship Relegation Play Off Aodh Ruadh BS 1-17 V 2-16 Glenfin *After extra time Donegal Intermediate Football Championship Semi Final Malin 3-15 V N 0-21 Mhuire LR Intermediate Relegation Play Offs Fanad Gaels 2-16 […]

Oisin Orr was back in the winners enclosure on Saturday afternoon in Ayr. The Donegal jockey rode the 15/2 shot Catching The Moon for trainer Richard Fahey. It is Orr’s second win in as many days after he guided Good Heavens to victory for John and Sean Quinn.

Patrick and Stephen O’Brien won the Buschwhacker Rally by one minute 57.6 seconds on Saturtday evening The pair in their Škoda Fabia RS finished ahead of Conor McCourt and Caolan McKenna in a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2. Darragh Cairns and  Mark Preston are in third place a further two minutes and 21.7 seconds behind

Institute and Limavady both suffered defeats in the NIFL Championship on Saturday afternoon. Stute went down 1-0 at home to Newington with Rory Donnelly scoring the games only goal. Meanwhile Limavady were beaten 3-0 at home to H&W Welders. The results mean Stute are now eighth in the league with Limavady in third, six points

  Ulster Championship 2 City of Derry 13 v 29 Carrickfergus Lisburn 38 v 27 Letterkenny Ulster Championship 3 Strabane 69 v 5 Newry  

Glencar Inn Saturday D1 Oldtown Celtic 5 vs 0 Glencar Celtic St Catherines FC Res 3 vs 3 Donegal Town Old Orchard Saturday D2 Arranmore United 2 vs 1 Bonagee United Fanad United 2 vs 4 Keadue Rovers Glenea United Res 2 vs 7 Copany Rovers Gweedore Celtic 6 vs 1 Fintown Harps AFC Ramelton

Donegal’s Sean Doohan and Aleisha Mullis Boyle claimed National under 17 boxing titles at the National Stadium on Friday night. Doohan, who represents Dunfanghy Boxing Club at the 80kg weight beat Martin Collins of Baldoyle Boxing Club 5-0. Meanwhile, Mullis Boyle who fights out of Dungloe Boxing Club was victorious over Grace Bailey of Mayo,

Finn Harps FC have confirmed they will field a senior team in the 2026 Women’s Development League. The Development League will be an even mix of senior clubs entering for the first time and U23 squads from existing Women’s National League clubs. Harps will feature in Group 1 with Drogheda United, Dundalk, Longford Town and

Donegal jockey Oisin Orr had a 25/1 winner on board Good Heavens in a one mile handicap race at Pontefract yesterday for trainers John and Sean Quinn and owner JP McManus. Earlier in the week, he had winners at Beverley and Redcar. He now has 57 winners this year in flat races in Britain.

Mark English’s hopes of making the World 800m Final came to an end this afternoon in Tokyo. The Finn Valley AC man kicked early in his semi final, leading out the pack on the final lap but crossed the line third in 1:45.47. That time at a wet Japan National Stadium wasn’t good enough to

Finn Harps will form part of the new Women’s Development League that will be created ahead of the 2026 League of Ireland season. The new tier will replace the existing Women’s Under-19 League and features ten new senior teams, as well as under-23 sides from existing Women’s Premier Division outfits. The Harps U19 side will

Letterkenny Rugby Football Club has been chosen winners of the Donegal County award in this year’s Texaco Support for Sport initiative. EUR5,000 has been presented to the Club to fund the initiation of a grassroots outreach programme in local primary schools and to purchase gym equipment for youth members. A club deeply rooted in its

Odhran McBrearty kicked for home in the last 200m of a cracking senior boys race at the 2025 secondary schools cross country event at Finn Valley AC on Wednesday. On home turf at Finn Valley AC, McBrearty pressed the button to leave Mouchine Fathoun (St Eunan’s, Letterkenny) and Michael Moore (Loreto, Milford) in his slipstream

  Hundreds of children took part in the 2025 Primary Schools Cross Country Challenge at Finn Valley AC on Tuesday. Schools from across Donegal and Tyrone took part in the event, which has become a popular annual feature on the local athletics calendar for many years now. An exciting U13 boys race won by Jake

There’s just five weeks to go to get schools nominations in for the 2025 Donegal Sports Star Awards. Friday 24th October is the closing date, so the Committee is asking school principals and sports staff to take a look back over the academic year from August 2024 to July 2025 and pick out achievements that

St Eunan’s have confirmed they will not lodge an objection to the substitution incident was took place during their defeat to Termon last weekend in the Donegal Senior Club Championship. It was alleged that Termon had 16 players on the field when they scored their final point which put the Burn Road men two points

Mark English has qualified for the semi finals of the 800m at World Championships in Tokyo. The Finn Valley man progressed with a third place finish in his heat this afternoon, running 1.45.13 to secure automatic qualification. Cian McPhillips also qualified with a stunning run to win his heat in 1:44.91. Both Irish men will

The Hills of Donegal will see its latest professional boxing bonanza in October with some of Ireland’s brightest young stars set to shine. Rumble In The Hills, Rising Stars, promoted by Sheer Sports Management, will take place in the Aura Leisure Complex on October 18. Donegal’s former world middleweight title challenger Jason Quigley is putting

Declan Bonner will manager the Fermanagh senior footballers for 2026. The appointment was confirmed at Monday’s County Board meeting. Bonner take overs from Kieran Donnelly and will be assisted by Paul Brennan. The All-Ireland winner previously managed his native Donegal to two Ulster titles in 2018 and 2019.