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The sanding and seeding of the new playing pitch at MacCumhaill Park were completed this week. The resurfacing of Donegal’s premier GAA ground is part of a €500,000 overall redevelopment which began in April. The project also includes improvements to floodlighting, drainage, and accessibility. Donegal Minister of State, Charlie McConalogue, visited MacCumhaill Park on Friday […]

A bumper crowd is expected this evening as the first round heats of the biggest greyhound racing competition to be staged in more than 15 years at Lifford Greyhound Stadium gets underway. The BoyleSports Lifford Oaks features a prize pool in excess of €20,000. The big news from a local point of view is that

Derry City have beaten Waterford 2-1 in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division at the RSC this evening. The Candy Stripes were a goal down on 21 minutes thanks to a Tom Lonergan strike for the home side. Derry regrouped and were 2-1 at half-time through goals from Gavin Whyte and Player Of The Year

Oisin Orr produced three brilliant rides to claim three back-to-back winners in Newcastle this evening. Firstly, in the 7pm handicap, Orr rode “Mr Mistoffelees” to victory for Sam England at 7/2. Then, in the 7:30pm outing, the Donegal man was on board 7/1 shot “Corramento” for David Thompson. Finally, to round off a fantastic hour

The deadline is fast approaching to get schools nominations in for the 2025 Donegal Sports Star Awards. The closing date for nominations is just one week away, on Friday, 24th October, and the Donegal Sports Star Awards Committee are asking principals and sports staff of their respective schools to take a look back over the

In the Central European Rally, Donegal’s Eamonn Kelly and co-driver Conor Mohan went off on the final bend of stage one in and rolled their Ford Fiesta Rally 3 in spectacular fashion, but they hope to be back in action over today’s six asphalt stages. In a social media post, Kelly said: “Gutted is the

Finn Valley’ AC’s Kay Byrne finished seventh in the Women’s over 60s 10k event at the European Masters Championships in Madeira. In the team event she was also entered into the Women’s over 40s event and helped them to win a team silver medal. Earlier in the week she got a team silver medal in

After finishing their UEFA Nations League group campaign level on points with Slovenia in League B – missing out on promotion on goal difference – Ireland now go into this two-legged Play-Off facing Belgium, who are seven places ahead of them in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings. Donegal natives Amber Barrett and Tyler Toland have

Letterkenny Athletic Club members taking part in this year’s Dublin Marathon are raising funds for the Donegal Hospice. The event, which takes place on Sunday, October 26th, will see 19 Letterkenny AC members participating. Over the years, Letterkenny AC has used the Dublin Marathon to help raise funds and increase awareness of local charities and

Sunday’s Derry Senior Football Championship Final between Magherafelt and reigning champions Newbridge will go ahead as planned. Slaughtneil’s appeal against the result of their semi-final defeat to Newbridge has been rejected by Derry County Board. The three-time Ulster champions claimed a late score from forward Shane McGuigan should have been a two-pointer rather than a

Newbridge have knocked Slaughtneil out of the Tyrone SFC at the Semi-Final stage at Owenbeg this afternoon. Defending Champions Newbridge led 0-14 to 0-08 at half-time but Slaughtneil surged back in the second half and, after a back-and-forth closing period, Newbridge ran out 0-21 to 0-16 winners. Gary Hetherington, the Newbridge Assistant Manager, spoke to

Loughmacrory and Carrickmore played out a thrilling 0-19 to 1-16 draw in the Tyrone SFC Semi-Final in Pomeroy this afternoon. A replay will now be scheduled. After the game, Loughmacrory boss Marty Boyle was taking as many positives from the result as possible…   The other semi-final will take place between Errigal Ciaran and Trillick

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