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The death has taken place of Strabane based Kieran Doherty who was a leading figure in the running of the Donegal International Rally down through the years. In a statement, the Donegal Motor Club expressed sympathy to his family and said he had been a vital cog in the running of the rally and had […]

Ulster Shield Cockhill Celtic P-P Strand Rovers Cranford 2-0 Dunree United Drumkeen United 1-2 Convoy Arsenal Illies Celtic P-P Whitestrand United Quigley Point Swifts P-P Arranmore United Raphoe Town 2-4 Carn Youths   Premier Division St Catherine’s 2-2 Bonagee United Kilmacrennan Celtic 2-0 Kildrum Tigers Letterkenny Rovers 5-1 Swilly Rovers Rathmullan Celtic 0-6 Keadue Rovers

Swatragh are Derry Intermediate Hurling Champions as they defeated Kevin Lynch HC by 2-10 to 0-11 in the decider at Owenbeg this afternoon. Earlier in the afternoon, Ballinascreen defeated Lavey on a score-line of 2-16 to 1-17 to claim the Junior title. The Derry Senior Hurling Final was also scheduled to take place today but,

Eamonn Kelly and his co-driver Gordon Noble have won the prestigious Rally San Remo in Italy this afternoon. Rally San Remo is a famous event on the European Historic Rally Championship circuit, with the route dating back to 1928. Donegal driver Kelly finished top of the pile in his BMW ahead of Lubiak Maciej in

There was success for some local boxers at this morning’s Ulster 9 Championships in Cookstown. Raphoe’s Hannah Lee Peoples had a 3-0 win against Amy O’Hare in the Girl 1 43KG Category. Cadan Keenan of Twintowns Boxing Club also got his hand raised – he was a 3-0 winner over his opponent Danil Grigorjev in

Institute have come from behind to beat Ballinamallard 2-1 in the NIFL Championship at the Ryan McBride Brandywell this afternoon. The home side fell behind early when Ballinamallard struck after just 6 minutes to go a goal to the good. It remained that way until Shane Boyle netted ‘Stute’s equaliser on 70 minutes to set

Ulster Shield Letterkenny Rovers 1-0 Dunree United Erne Wanderers vs Glengad* Glencar Celtic 2-0 Moville Celtic Gweedore Celtic 3-0 Milford United Lagan Harps 5-7 Gweedore United *Game did not take place   Sat Division One Donegal Town 3-1 Keadue Rovers Drumbar 0-2 Oldtown Celtic Kildrum Tigers 3-2 St Catherine’s Reserves   Sat Division Two Dunlewey

Derry City have beaten Dundalk 2-0 in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division at Oriel Park this evening. Colm Whelan opened the scoring for the Candy Stripes on 16 minutes and the away side took the 1-0 lead into the break. That is how it remained until Will Patching dispatched a penalty with 13 minutes

The ATU Donegal Women’s Soccer team recorded a fine victory on Thursday over the Royal College of Surgeons in their Women’s Soccer Colleges Association of Ireland Division One match as they ran out 5-1 winners. Aoife Gallanagh bagged a great hat-trick while Keri Loughrey scored twice. Elsewhere this week the men’s soccer side picked up

Two Donegal players, Ciaran Thompson and Daire O’Baoill have been named in the Ulster team for this weekend’s Inter-provincials at Croke Park. There are seven Tyrone players in the 30 man panel – Niall Morgan, Mark Bradley, Aidan Clarke, Conn Kilpatrick, Darren McCurry, Eoin McElhom and Kieran McGreary. Derry have three included – Diarmuid Baker,

Kilmacrennan’s Rhys Irwin (above right) has finished seventh overall following the final round of races at the British Superbikes Championships. After a slip off in race one, he started race two in 18th position on the grid but in lashing rain put on the display of the weekend as he moved up to finish fourth

  At the Donegal Open Boxing Championships in Carndonagh, there were wins in the finals for Isabella Iwanek of Convoy, Joe Doherty of Carndonagh, Cathair Keenan of Twin Towns, Gary McNamara of Raphoe and Sean Kelly of Dunfanaghy. The tournament proved to be a big success with a big entry list. The championships were open

One of Tyrone’s most famous clubs has been relegated after a 40-year unbroken run as a senior force. Coalisland Fianna lost a relegation play-off to neighbours Clonoe yesterday evening and will play their football in Division Two next season. The O’Rahilly’s came out on top by 2-9 to 0-8 to keep alive their hopes of

Glencar Inn Saturday Division 1 Arranmore United 1-3 Donegal Town Oldtown Celtic 1-1 Kildrum Tigers Ramelton Mariners 2-2 Strand Rovers St Catherines FC Reserves 2-2 Glencar Celtic Swilly Rovers 1-6 Drumbar FC   Old Orchard Saturday Division 2 Castlefin Celtic 2-3 Glenea United Reserves Drumoghill Res 0-1 Kilmacrennan Celtic Erne Wanderers FC vs Cappry Rovers

Donegal’s Liam McKinney has been named the 2024 Nickey Rackard Player of the Year. The Burt club-man was a live-wire in the Donegal attack this year and throughout their Nickey Rackard campaign. Meanwhile, three Donegal players were named in a selection of the top hurlers who starred in this year’s Christy Ring, Nickey Rackard and

Yesterday was a fantastic day if you had backed the Donegal jockeys in action. At Kempton, Brandon Orr started off the local win-streak as he was on-board Marco Botti’s Amroon in the 4:03 race there – he went off at 7/2. Then, at 25 past 5 in Dundalk, Dylan Browne McMonagle rode “Meg’s A Star”