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Ulster Junior Cup Milford United 2-4 Bonagee United (Friday) Glaslough 2-4 Glenea United   Saturday Division 1 Glencar Celtic 4-3 Ramelton Mariners

Institute have defeated Newington 1-0 to maintain their good form in the NIFL Championship. It’s now three wins out of the last three games for ‘Stute. A stunning Mikhail Kennedy free-kick  on 12 minutes was enough to give the visitors the points. In other games, Ballyclare won 3-1 at home to Newry and Ards had

A second-half try from Ultan McGuinness handed Letterkenny a vital away win against Cavan in the Ulster Championship 2 this afternoon. The Donegal side were a point behind at half time after first half tries from Chris McCann and Jordan Mealiff. McGuinness went over in the second period to make it 17-16 and gave Letterkenny

Downings have progressed to the semi-final of the Ladies Ulster Junior Football Championship with a 5-04 to 2-10 win over Butlersbridge. The Cavan side started brightly but first half goals from Denise Doherty and Amy McLaughlin kept Downings in touch. At half time, the sides were level at 1-05 to 2-02. Two goals from Shannon

Finn Harps have announced that Tony McNamee, Max Hutchinson and David Cawley have all agreed new deals committing them to the club. Captain McNamee, has signed a new two-year contract to remain at Finn Park through 2026. Harps’ boss Darren Murphy told finnharps.ie; “Tony has been brilliant since he has come back, he’s the Club

Donegal’s Tyler Toland helped the Republic of Ireland women’s team to a superb 6-0 win away to Georgia in Tbilisi in their Euro Qualification first leg clash. Toland, who plays for Blackburn Rovers, played for 75 minutes before being replaced by Jessie Stapleton. Milford’s Amber Barrett and Anna Patten, whose grandfather hails from Falcarragh, were

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