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Derry City have moved to the top of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division courtesy of a 1-0 win at Waterford on Friday night. The games only goal was scored by Ben Doherty on the hour mark at the RSC Grounds. Derry lead Shelbourne on goal difference after Damien Duff’s side drew 1-1 in the Dublin

Dylan Browne McMonagle continued his superb form of late with another winner at Leopardstown yesterday evening. The Letterkenny jockey rode the Joseph Patrick O’Brien trained “Evening Blossom” to victory as the 11/4 favourite in the 7:55PM race. It’s the sixth win in the space of seven days for Browne-McMonagle, who is having a fantastic month

Convoy’s Luke Witherow was in the Ireland team that claimed a record win in international hockey yesterday evening, as they defeated Malta 25-0. Ireland, ranked nine in the world, cruised to victory over a Malta team ranked 72, in the fourth quarter-final of the European B qualifiers. The game, which was played at Sports Campus

Six Donegal footballers and one hurler have been nominated for the 2024 Irish News All-Star awards. The football nominees are Buncrana’s Caolan McGonagle, Michael Langan of St Michael’s, Niall O’Donnell of St Eunan’s, Oisin Gallen of Sean MacCumhaills and the St Naul’s pairing of Peadar Mogan and Brendan McCole. Setanta’s Steven McBride is the sole

Letterkenny AC athletes Caitriona Jennings & Ciaran McGonagle will represent Ireland at the 2024 IAU 100Km World Championships which take place in Bangalore, India on December 7th. Caitriona finished 3rd in the last 100KM World Championships back in 2022 and claimed Gold in the Masters Race while setting a new Irish National Record and age

It’s a big weekend of local cricket action as the North-West season enters the final couple of weeks with plenty of honours up for grabs. Friday sees the start of this year’s Sam Jeffrey Shield final with Donegal club St Johnston taking on newly crowned Section 2 champions Strabane at Ardmore. These two sides have

Finn Harps have confirmed Inishowen player Stephen Doherty has left the club. In a social media post this morning, Harps said: “The club can confirm the departure of Stephen Doherty from Finn Park due to work and travel commitments. Everyone at Finn Harps wishes to thank Stephen for his efforts and commitment during his time

Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship Round 3 Draw: St.Nauls v Killybegs Four Masters v Glenswilly Cloughaneely v Downings Glenfin v Kilcar St.Eunan’s v Gweedore St.Michaels v Dungloe Aodh Ruadh Ballyshannon v Ardara Sean MacCumhaills v Naomh Conaill

O’Reilly Sports LGFA Senior Championship 2 CLG Naomh Náille 1-9 – 4-10 CLG An Tearmainn Naomh Muire, Íochtar Na Rosann 2-1 – 2-7 Moville   O’Reilly Sports LGFA Intermediate Championship 1 Ardara 0-7 – 5-10 An Clochán Liath   O’Reilly Sports LGFA Junior A Championship Group A 2 Naomh Pádraig Uisce Chaoin 3-16 – 2-4

Oisin Orr has won the 3:45 and 4:45 races at Pontefract today. The Donegal jockey was on board the highly-fancied Richard Fahey trained “Powerful Glory” in the Cure Leukaemia EBF “Newcomers” Maiden Stakes. And that was enough for him to win the Sunday Series Best Jockey award, worth £10,000, for a third time. He went

Keith Cronin and Mikie Galvin secured victory in the Ulster Rally this weekend. The pair, driving their Ford Fiesta, finished 15.4 seconds quicker than Donegal International Rally winners Callum Devine and Noel 0’Sullivan in their Skoda Fabia. The Citreon C3 of Josh Moffett and Andy Hayes made up the rest of the top 3, finishing

Raphoe’s 63.5 kilo fighter Jack Mc Elroy had a convincing points win over Armagh’s Jake Daly at the quarter final stages of the National U18 Boxing Championships on Friday night. McElroy will now share the canvas with Portlaoise hot-shot Louis Griffin in the semi-final next Friday evening. The winner will be back in action again

Donegal GAA – Saturday 17th August Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship Killybegs 1-10 – 1-12 Sean Mac Cumhaill Kilcar 1-16 – 0-09 St Naul’s Gaoth Dobhair 1-14 – 0-05 Glenfin Downings 0-06 – 3-08 Four Masters Dungloe 1-12 – 1-08 Aodh Ruadh BS Donegal Intermediate Football Championship Naomh Muire LR 2-16 – 1-13

Institute have started the new NIFL Championship season with two consecutive draws after Dundela left it late to snatch a point at the Ryan McBride Brandywell this afternoon. Michael Harris had ‘stute 1-0 to the good at the interval and it stayed that way until beyond the 70th minute when this match really kicked into

It’s been a good afternoon so far for Donegal jockeys. Dylan Browne McMonagle is continuing his good form of late – he is in action at Deauville in France. Browne McMonagle has had 2 winners so far today as he was on board the JP O’Brian trained “Apples and Bananas” in the 12:58 race. He

The Donegal GAA U16 football team won the Buncrana Shield today, beating Dublin 2-12 to 0-5. The county’s U15 team were also victorious today – they defeated Down on a score-line of 3-10 to 1-10 in the Brian McLarnon Shield Final.  

Finn Valley AC’s Sinead McConnell took a superb silver medal at the World Masters Championships in Gothenburg this morning. Sinead clocked 56:16 in the 10k race walk for W55 silver. She was beaten to gold by Michelle Rohl, a three-time Olympic race walker with the United States in 1992, 1996 and 2000 and a multiple

Derry City have progressed to the quarter finals of the FAI Cup. On Friday evening the Candystrips beat Cork City at Turners Cross 1-0. The games only goal was scored by Sam Todd in the 72nd minute. Elsewhere, Premier Division leaders Shelbourne knocked out Galway United 5-3 on penalties, the game finished 1-1 after extra-time.

Dylan Browne-McMonagle was in the winner’s circle at Dundalk yesterday as he was on board the Paul W Flynn trained “Mrs. Willpower”. The Donegal jockey went off as a 12/1 shot in that race – he also came close to upsetting the odds in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at 3:25. He finished 2nd

Former Derry City manager and League Of Ireland legend Jim McLaughlin has passed away. Jim won a record eight League of Ireland titles as Manager with Derry City, Dundalk, Shamrock Rovers, and Shelbourne as well as six FAI Cups. He steered Derry City to their famous domestic treble in 1989. As a player, Jim also

Team Ireland returned from the Olympics to a rapturous reception in Dublin on Monday afternoon and the Donegal contingent were among the Irish party that included athletes and support staff. Seven medals were won in Paris, four of those medals were gold and there were also three bronze – representing the most successful Olympics for

Donegal based navigator Niall Burns is set to compete on the World Rally Championship stage. The Sligo native who lives in Kilmacrennan will take on September’s Acropolis Rally Greece alongside Oman’s Hamed Al Wahaibi. The crew will compete in a Skoda Fabia RS in the WRC2 category. Rally Greece takes place from September 4th to

Donegal’s Dylan Browne McMonagle secured a major win in Germany yesterday as he rode the 3/5 favourite Al Riffa to victory in the Westminster 134th Grosser Preis von Berlin for trainer JP O’Brien at Hoppegarten. This group 1 race is a major race on the German calendar and is worth £86,956.52 to the winner. Al

As preparations continue for the 2024 Donegal Half Marathon, race director, Brendan McDaid, has revealed that over 400 have entered the event. This year’s Donegal Half Marathon, which will be held in association with the Kernan Retail Group, takes place on Sunday, August 25th in Letterkenny. “The Donegal Half Marathon is celebrating 10 years this year

  Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship Glenfin 1-07 – 1-11 Dungloe Four Masters 3-09 – 1-07 Gaoth Dobhair Aodh Ruadh Ballyshannon 1-13 – 0-14 Downings Sean Mac Cumhaill 3-15 – 0-13 Ardara Donegal Intermediate Football Championship Bundoran 1-07 – 0-07 Burt Termon 4-14 – 0-16 Naomh Columba Na Rossa 2-10 – 1-11 Naomh

O’Reilly Sports LGFA Senior Championship 1 St Eunan’s 4-8 – 2-8 Aodh Ruadh Ballyshannon Moville 5-12 – 2-10 CLG Naomh Náille CLG An Tearmainn 3-15 – 0-10 Gleann Fhinne Naomh Conaill 8-11 – 1-11 Naomh Muire, Íochtar Na Rosann   O’Reilly Sports LGFA Intermediate Championship 1 Gaoth Dobhair 2-11 – 1-8 Naomh Mhuire Conmhaigh  

Cockhill Celtic won the FAI Tom Hand Trophy with a dramatic penalty shootout victory over FAI Intermediate Cup winners Glebe North yesterday afternoon. Gavin Cullen’s men found themselves 1-0 down inside just 5 minutes and looked to be heading for defeat when Glebe made it 2-0 with around 20 minutes of normal time remaining. A