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Wins in Masters Cross Country Championships for Jon-Jo Doherty and Helena McCready

It was another busy weekend on the athletics front in Donegal with both the Donegal Masters Cross Country Championships and the Champions Cup taking place. The Masters County Championships mens was won by Jon-Jo Doherty with Finn Valley winning the team event meanwhile the womens event was won by Helena McCready and her team of

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Ruaidhri Higgins reflects on Derry City’s FAI Cup quarter final over Shelbourne

Derry City booked their place in the FAI Cup semi final after they beat Shelbourne 2-0 at the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium on Saturday evening. Goals from Michael Duffy and Danny Mullen was enough to see the Candystripes through to the final four. They will now have to travel to Bohemians for their semi final.

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Declan Ward “absolutely delighted” with Naomh Muire’s Donegal Intermediate Football Championship quarter final win

Naomh Muire, Lower Rosses have a Donegal Intermediate Football Championship semi final to look forward to after they beat Milford on Saturday evening in Falcarragh. Harry Harden scored what proved to be a vital goal for Naomh Muire as they ended up 1-09 to 0-08 winners. After the game, Ryan Ferry got the thoughts of

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Naomh Muire into Donegal Intermediate Football Championship semi final

Naomh Muire, Lower Rosses are into the Donegal Intermediate Football Championship semi final after they beat Milford 1-09 to 0-08 in Falcarragh. Harry Harden with the crucial goal for his side in the first half. Ryan Ferry reports for Highland Radio Sport… Elsewhere in the Intermediate Football Championship, Termon ran out 1-08 to 1-04 winners

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Ruaidhri Higgins looks ahead to”mouth-watering” FAI Cup clash with Shels

Derry City will face Shelbourne in the last 8 of the FAI Cup at the Ryan McBride Brandywell tomorrow evening. The two sides, who are going toe-to-toe at the summit of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division, have yet to be separated in their three league meetings so far this year. Derry City manager Ruaidhri

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Big weekend for Richard Kerr in Bennetts British Superbike Championship

Team IWR Honda will have a new line up in the Bennetts British Superbike Championship for Oulton Park this weekend after mutually parting company with Alex Olsen. The team will continue to feature on the grid in the BSB Pathway class as  Kilmacrennan’s Richard Kerr joins them for the return to the Cheshire circuit. The

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MMA: Moville’s Darragh Kelly looking to extend unbeaten record at Wembley

Darragh Kelly will be looking to extend his unbeaten start to life as a professional MMA fighter as he takes on Dmytrii Hyrtsenko in a lightweight fight at the OVO Wembley Arena on Saturday night. Moville native Kelly is 6-0 in his pro-career after finishing Frenchman Mathias Poiron in the first round of the Bellator

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Donegal Masters manager Francie Martin looks ahead to this weekend’s All Ireland Final

Donegal Masters will play London Masters in the All Ireland Plate Final at Breffni Park in Cavan this Saturday afternoon. Francie Martin’s side will be looking to avenge last year’s semi-final defeat to the same opposition. This year, however, there has been an influx in new players to choose from and, according to Martin, the

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Business Matters, Ep 210: A Syrian beekeeper in Carndonagh, export opportunties and a digital readiness monitor

In this episode of Business Matters, Chris Ashmore will be looking at a report from farming, food and agribusiness specialist professional services firm IFAC  finds that expanding internationally is high on priority list for many Irish agrifood SMEs. He speaks with  David Leydon, Head of Food & Agribusiness with IFAC about its report which is called 

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Donegal SFC Preliminary Quarter-Final line-up confirmed

The line-up for the preliminary quarter-finals of this season’s Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship has been confirmed. It will be: Dungloe v Downings St. Eunan’s v Ardara Four Masters v Killybegs Gweedore v Sean MacCumhaills   Glenswilly, St. Michaels, Naomh Conaill and Kilcar have already booked their spots in the quarter finals.

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Dungloe overcome St. Nauls to book preliminary quarter-final against Downings

Dungloe defeated St. Naul’s 2-14 to 0-6 in Round 4 of the Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship this afternoon. The result means Dungloe finish 5th in the standings and will play Downings in a preliminary quarter final next weekend. With the full time report from Dungloe, here’s Ryan Ferry…

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Four Masters set up prelim quarter final with Killybegs after low-scoring victory over Ardara

Scores were hard to come by as Four Masters defeated Ardara in Round 4 of the Michael Murphy Sports Senior Football Championship at Pearse Memorial Park this afternoon. It finished 6 points to 5 in favour of the Donegal Town side and they will now go on to face Killybegs in a preliminary quarter final

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Barry Curran says “bring on next weekend” as Dungloe beat St. Nauls

  Dungloe will play Downings in a preliminary quarter final of the Michael Murphy Sports Senior Football Championship next weekend after defeating St. Naul’s 2-14 to 0-6 this afternoon. St. Nauls, meanwhile, finished bottom of the overall leaderboard and will play Glenfin in a relegation play-off. After today’s game, Ryan Ferry spoke to Barry Curran

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St. Michael’s manager Cathal Sweeney: “I have to praise the players for the shift they put in”

St. Michaels edged Gweedore 0-6 to 0-5 in a scrappy affair in Round 4 of the Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship this afternoon. It’s now four wins from four for St. Michaels which means they are straight through to the quarter finals in two weeks time. Their manager Cathal Sweeney spoke to Highland’s

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Conor Harvey wins Knockalla Hill Climb event by 0.05 seconds

Conor Harvey won this weekend’s Danny Gormley Memorial Knockalla Hillclimb. The Donegal driver pipped Kevin Gallagher by just 0.05 seconds to claim the win after a back and forth battle between these two in their Darrians this afternoon. Third place was taken by Kilmacrennan’s Ivan Stewart, making it a Donegal 1,2,3. John Baird joined Highland

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Shaun Patton: “It wasn’t the prettiest game of football, but a win is a win”

St. Eunan’s made it three wins from four games as they overcame the challenge of Downings in Round 4 of the Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship this evening. Downings made life difficult for their visitors but ultimately some fine scores from Ciaran Moore and Conor O’Donnell proved to be the key to unlocking

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Kevin Gallagher takes Saturday win at Knockalla Hill Climb – The latest with Johnny Baird

The first day of the Danny Gormley Memorial Knockalla Hillclimb got underway this morning. Kevin Gallagher took the win on the first day of action with a best-time of 43:05. Conor Harvey was second in 43:34 and third was Barry Morris with 43:44. All three of the top competitors on day one were driving Darrians.

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NI soccer: Institute suffer another defeat, but wins for Limavady and Strabane

Institute have continued their poor start to the NIFL Championship season with a 3-1 defeat at home to Ballyclare Comrades at the Ryan McBride Brandywell this afternoon. ‘Stute trailed at the break and went 2-0 down in the second period before Caoimhin Porter pulled one back to make it 2-1. A late goal from Ballyclare

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Coleman has no ill-feelings towards Rice’s international decision

The Republic of Ireland are continuing preparations ahead of tomorrow’s Nations League clash with England. The entirety of the squad trained at the Aviva Stadium this morning, with no fresh injury concerns. Declan Rice will be returning to play in the Aviva Stadium for the first time since playing for the Boys in Green in

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