Success Edogun’s tenth goal of the season and his second from the penalty spot gave Finn Harps another much needed three points in Friday’s 1-0 win over Longford Town at Finn Park. The victory was Harps third in a row and brings them back to within a point of the play off places with five […]
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Finn Harps beat Longford Town 1-0 in Friday’s First Division clash in Ballybofey. The victory was Harps third in a row and brings them back to within a point of the play off places. Diarmaid Doherty reports for Highland Radio Sport from Finn Park:
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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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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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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 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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Dylan Browne McMonagle will ride in the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown this Saturday. The Donegal jockey will team up with trainer Aiden O’Brien and will mount Irish Derby Winner “Los Angeles” in the Group 1 race. Los Angeles has won 3 of his 4 races to date at York, the Curragh and
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Teams in the Donegal Junior League are back up and running and while the league itself has yet to begin there has been no shortage of action in the Voodoo Cup and Brian McCormick Cup. This weekend sees three area finals in the Brian McCormick Cup. Former Gweedore Celtic manager and player Hugh Rua Gallagher,
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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
Tyrone have their man, and Malachy O’Rourke was announced tonight as their new manager as the GAA’s worst kept secret was confirmed. The former Monaghan and Fermanagh boss has agreed a three-year term which will take him up to the end of the 2027 season. A brief statement from Tyrone GAA said: “At this
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Letterkenny’s Mark English was among the Irish athletes in action in Switzerland on Monday evening at the prestigious Gala de Castelli event. The Finn Valley AC man placed an excellent third in the Men’s 800 metres. Fellow Irish Olympian Luke McCann finished just ahead of Mark in second spot, his time of 1.45.33 was just
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The Donegal Golf Youth Finals were in held at Ballybofey and Stranorlar Golf Club over the weekend. In the Donegal Youth Golf Matchplay under -18 Final yesterday Letterkenny Golf Club won the title in a close encounter over Buncrana GC 2-1, while in the Donegal Plate Golf Under -18 Final it was Dunfanaghy GC who
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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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St. Michaels have beaten Gweedore 0-6 to 0-5 in Round 4 of the Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship in Magheragallon this afternoon. Two second half points from Daniel McLaughlin were huge scores in the low-scoring contest. With the full time report from Gweedore, here’s Oisin Kelly and Brendan Kilcoyne…
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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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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
Glenswilly kept up their 100% record with a 2-11 to 0-12 win over Sean MacCumhaills in Round 4 of the Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship this afternoon. Michael Murphy, as he so often is, was the key man for Glenswilly as he scored 6 points and was influential throughout. With the full time
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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. 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
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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Donegal Junior League Results – Sunday September 8th Brian McCormick Cup Bonagee United 1 vs 3 Letterkenny Rovers Castlefin Celtic 3 vs 2 Lagan Harps Cranford FC 6 vs 5 Glenea United Donegal Town 4 vs 0 Cappry Rovers Kildrum Tigers 6 vs 0 Raphoe Town Kilmacrennan Celtic 4 vs 3 Gweedore Celtic
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O’Reilly Sports LGFA Senior Championship Aodh Ruadh Ballyshannon 1-2 – 1-6 Termon St Nauls 1-11 – 2-8 Naomh Conaill Naomh Mhuire LR 1-7 – 3-8 St. Eunans Glenfin 1-14 – 2-9 Moville Intermediate Championship Dungloe 2-10 – 0-7 Killybegs Convoy 2-6 – 7-21 Ardara Buncrana 3-4 – 2-12 Gaoth Dobhair Junior A Championship
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Inishowen Football League Results – Sunday 8th of September Clubman Shirts League Cup Redcastle United 0 Cockhill Celtic 5 Greencastle FC 2 Buncrana Hearts 8 Aileach FC 0 Culdaff FC 7 Charlie O Donnell Cup QPS 6 Gleneely Colts 1 Aileach Res 1 Cockhill Youth 2 Rashenny FC P Carn Youth P Moville Celtic 1
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Jim McGuinness’ Donegal side will not be playing in the McKenna Cup at the start of next year as all have pre-season tournaments have been suspended for 2025 as part of a one-year trial. After the one-year trial, a review will then decide whether or not the removal of pre-season tournaments will be made permanent.
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Finn Harps duo Aaron McLaughlin and Sean Patton, who is on loan from Derry City, both featured for Ireland Men’s Under-19s team in their 3-1 win over Kazakhstan in the Slovenia Nations Cup yesterday. St Patrick Athletic’s Luke Kehir, a late call-up to the Irish squad, gave Tom Mohan’s team the lead after seven minutes
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Intermediate Championship Quarter Finals: Termon v Red Hughs Buncrana v Malin Milford v Naomh Mhuire Lower Rosses Naomh Columba v Bundoran Intermediate Championship Relegation Play-offs: Fanad v Burt Na Rossa v Letterkenny Gaels
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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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St. Eunan’s have beaten Downings 1-10 to 0-07 in Round 4 of the Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship at Pairc na Dunaibh this evening. The big score of the game came in the first half when a high ball into the Downings square wasn’t dealt with and was bundled into the net by
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Dylan Browne-McMonagle is continuing to make waves on the horse-racing scene. The young Letterkenny jockey has had several winners in recent weeks and kept up his great form of late by clinching a 16/1 double at Navan this evening. Firstly, he was on board “Irish Rumour” in the 15:25 race for trainer Miss Jennifer Anne
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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.
Letterkenny’s first home game of the Ulster Championship 2 season was one to remember as they narrowly lost out 45-41 to CIYMS this afternoon. Letterkenny led by a single point at half time as Ben Scott went over twice, and Daf Green and Jordan Mealiff also touched down for tries. Further tries in the second
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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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Voodoo Cup Results – Saturday 7th September Letterkenny Rovers 0 – 2 Oldtown Celtic Ramelton Mariners 0 – 2 Fanad United Erne Wanderers 6 – 0 Drumbar Copany Rovers 3 – 0 Fintown Harps Dunlewey Celtic 0 – 2 Gweedore Celtic Strand Rovers 2 – 0 Cranford Castlefin Celtic 0 – 6 Kildrum Tigers Bonagee
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Finn Harps had a good away win in Athlone last night thanks to a brace each from Patrick “Dixie” Ferry and Success Edogun. Two first half goals from Ferry had Darren Murphy’s side 2-0 up at the interval and two second half goals from Edogun sealed the three points. 4-1 was the final score. Murphy
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Finn Harps have beaten Athlone Town 4-1 in the SSE Airtricity League First Division at the Athlone Town Stadium this evening. Following on from his goal last week against Cobh, it was Patrick “Dixie” Ferry who had Harps in front after just 3 minutes. Ferry then added his second of the game on the half-hour
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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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Donegal jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle was on board a well-backed winner at Down Royal on Friday evening. He won the Grant Thornton Nursery Handicap over seven furlongs on board 3-1 shot The Marty Party for trainer Joseph Patrick O’Brien with just half a length to spare in an exciting finish ahead of Midnight Stagger. Browne-McMonagle
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Katie-George Dunlevy has won a third medal of the Paris Paralympics. Along with pilot Linda Kelly, they held a narrow lead ahead of Great Britain’s Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl until the final lap, missing out on gold by just three seconds. Afterwards, Dunlevy, who father John is from Mountcharles, reflected on the tough battle
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Sean MacCumhaill’s lifted the Donegal Minor Hurling Championship title as they overcame Setanta by 1-10 to 0-9 at a sun-kissed Donegal GAA Centre of Excellence in Convoy on Thursday evening. The Twin Towns side led by 1-7 to 0-5 at the interval of a well-contested game, with Dylan Patton getting what turned out to be
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Two Finn Harps players were part of the Republic of Ireland side that kicked-off its Slovenia Cup campaign with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of a heavily talent-laden French side. Sean Patton, who is on loan with Harps from Derry City and who has attracted the attention of Porstmouth, started the game while Aaron
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Malachy O’Rourke appears to have a clear path to the Tyrone football manager’s job. Currently in charge of reigning All-Ireland Club Champions Glen, O’Rourke has been nominated for the Red Hand role by his home club Errigal Ciaran. The next county board meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday, when it’s expected O’Rourke’s appointment will be
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The Diocese of Raphoe has this afternoon, acknowledged the publication of the scoping inquiry into reported historical sexual abuse at schools run by religious orders. The inquiry, which involved over 2,400 allegations against 884 alleged abusers at more than 300 schools, named St. Louis Girls Convent National School in Bundoran and De La Salle Secondary
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One school bus provider has threatened to pull their service on a route in West Donegal due to overgrown hedges. Damage was caused to a bus during a school run this morning as a result of overgrown vegetation. Safety concerns have repeatedly been raised particularly in rural parts of the county, due to hedges impeding
In this week’s edition of Business Matters, Chris Ashmore begins by speaking with Louise Patton of the Ballybofey and Stranorlar Business Chamber about its inaugural awards night, and also the chamber itself and the role it can play in promoting a positive message about the Twin Towns. He also finds out about how Business in
In today’s Sammy Jeffrey Shield Final, Strabane defeated St Johnston in a dominant performance. St Johnston batted first and posted 126 runs in their innings, but Strabane chased down the target comfortably, reaching 128 for the loss of just one wicket. It was a commanding win for Strabane, who also recently claimed the NW Section
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Brian McCormick Cup Results Milford United 0 – 1 Rathmullan Celtic Cappry Rovers 2 – 0 Drumkeen United Swilly Rovers 6 – 0 Whitestrand United Fanad United 0 – 1 Bonagee United Ballybofey United 1 – 2 St. Catherine’s Curragh Athletic 0 – 3 Letterbarrow Celtic Lifford Celtic 0 – 6 Castlefin Celtic Gweedore United
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Josh Moffett won this weekend’s Galway Stages Rally in his Citroen C3 Rally 2. Moffett, along with co-driver Keith Moriarty, finished just 11.2 seconds faster than Sam Moffett and James O’Reilly in their Hyundai. Donegal driver Declan Boyle had a good rally – he finished 6th overall in his new Skoda Rally 2. Kevin Gallagher
Clubman Shirts League Cup Carn FC 2 Redcastle United 0 Buncrana Hearts 2 Clonmany Shamrock 2 Illies Celtic 1 Aileach FC 2 Charlie O Donnell Cup Aileach Res 1 QPS 2 Cockhill Youths 5 Gleneely Colts 0 Glengad United 5 Rashenny FC 4 Dunree United 3 Moville Celtic 3 Inishowen Engineering Division Two Rashenny RES
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The winners podium at the 41st Waterside Half Marathon was red and white this morning as the City of Derry Spartans duo of Kyle Doherty and Judith Storm led home a bumper field at Ebrington Square. It is the second successive year the local club has claimed the men’s and women’s titles at the event as
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