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The Donegal Sports Star Committee has confirmed the two deadline dates for the 2024 Awards. The first deadline is for the schools nominations and is Friday 25th of October. All other nominations must be submitted to the Committee by Friday 29th of November. Schools are first because it is only successes in the academic year […]

Donegal Half Marathon Committee Chairman, Myles Sweeney, says he’s overwhelmed at the level of interest in this year’s event which takes place on Sunday, August 25th in Letterkenny. “We’ve been attracting between 400 and 500 in recent years, but this year it looks like the final entry could be close to 600 which is fantastic,”

The draw for the 2024 Sports Direct Men’s FAI Cup Quarter-Finals has been confirmed with a repeat of the 2022 Final on the cards as Derry City host Shelbourne. On that day, Derry took the cup with a 4-0 win at the Aviva Stadium while you have to go back to the 99/00 season when

Donegal Jockey Brandon Wilkie was back in the winners enclosure on Monday at Yarmouth. Wilkie won onboard the 17/2 shot Sugarloaf Lenny with trainer William Knight. It was Wilkie’s 4th win in the past ten days and his 26th this season in the UK. He also won recently at Doncaster, Kempton Park and Thirsk.

Mickey Harte is to return to inter county senior football management, one month on from leaving Derry. Tyrone’s former All Ireland winning boss is to become the joint manager of Offaly. He will take a three year term with the Faithful County alongside Declan Kelly. He has been endorsed by the Offaly management committee with

The Donegal CCC have confirmed the fixture details for Round 3 of the Michael Murphy Sports & Leisure Donegal Senior  FootballChampionship. Saturday 24th August Four Masters v Glenswilly 4pm St Eunans v Gaoth Dobhair 4pm Glenfin v Kilcar 6pm MacCumhaills v Naomh Conaill 8pm Sunday 25th August St Nauls v Killybegs 2pm Cloughanelly v Downings

Finn Valley’s Sinead McConnell has picked up a second medal at the World Masters Championships in Gothenburg. She took silver in this mornings 5k walk in a season best time of 27:04.39. The medal follows the silver she won over the weekend in the 10k race walk. Michelle Rohl from the United States who won

Michael Murphy Sports Donegal Senior Football Championship Glenswilly                              0-14 – 2-06               Cloughaneely Ardara                                      1-11 – 4-11   

Sean Hurson will referee next week’s All Ireland Football final clash of Armagh and Galway. The County Tyrone official was the man in the middle two-years ago when Galway were beaten by Kerry in the final. Hurson also refereed this year’s All Ireland group phase clash of Armagh and Galway, which ended in a draw.

The Republic of Ireland’s hopes of making the semi-finals at the Women’s Under-19 European Championships suffered a blow this afternoon. Despite taking the lead through Lia O’Leary, Ireland fell to a 2-1 defeat to Germany. Inishowen’s Jodie Loughrey played the full game for the Irish while her sister Kerrie was an unused subsititue. The Girls

Aodh Ruadh have installed Maurice McLaughlin as their manager for the reminder of the season replacing Conor Cunningham. The Ballyshannon club was rocked on Monday by the shock resignation of the Kilcar native, who had only been in the job since March. With a league relegation play off against Termon this weekend and the championship

Richard Kerr will make his Bennetts British Superbike Championship debut this weekend. The Donegal rider who won the National Superstock Championship last year will deputise for Rory Skinner who continues his recovery from injury. Kerr will line up at Brands Hatch aboard the TAS Racing prepared BWM M 1000 RR Superbike and further rounds will

Tuesday is day two of the July Festival at Killarney, where a seven-race card gets underway at 5.10pm. Dylan Browne McMonagle will be looking to continue his good form in Kerry this evening. On day one yesterday, the Donegal Jockey had two wins and two second placed finishes in his four rides with trainer Joseph

The Republic of Ireland earned a hard-fought point in their opening game of the Women’s Under-19 European Championships on Monday. Dave Connell’s side held defending champions Spain to a scoreless draw in Lithuania. It took a mammoth defensive effort to seal a point against a classy Spanish side. Inishowen’s Jodie Loughrey played her part as

Donegal’s Michael Langan has been named among the nominations for the GAA.ie Footballer of the Week. The St Michael’s man kicked four sweet points from play against Galway on Sunday in their defeat at the All Ireland semi final stage. Galway’s Dylan McHugh and Armagh’s Rian O’Neill are the other two nominees. Langan has also

The Olympic Federation of Ireland has officially selected the athletics team who are set to compete at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. Tir Chonaill’s Kelly McGrory is going to a first games having been selected to as part of the mixed 4x400m and women 4x400m squads. Kelly has been to major tournaments with

CLG Chill Chartha are celebrating our centenary this year and as part of the activities we are holding our Centenary Celebrations day on Saturday 3rd August. First up starting at 11:30am we will have children’s, men’s and ladies fun GAA matches with players with family connections from all over the world getting involved in the

Derry GAA will begin the process to replace Mickey Harte this evening. Harte and assistant Gavin Devlin stepped down on Monday after just a single season in charge. During his tenure, Mickey guided the team to win both the Bank of Ireland Dr. McKenna Cup and Allianz National Football League, delivering a first national title

Peader Mogan has added the June’s PwC GAA/GPA Football Player of the Month award to the one he won in May. The Donegal man continued his fine form with another man of the match performance at Croke Park, scoring five points in the quarter final win over Louth, helping Donegal to a first All Ireland

Donegal’s Amber Barrett and Tyler Toland have been named in the Ireland squad for the upcoming European Championship qualifiers with England and France. Ireland face England at Carrow Road in Norwich on Friday week before the French visit Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork the following Tuesday. Eileen Gleeson will be without captain Katie McCabe for

Peader Mogan has once again been nominated for the GAA/GPA Player of the Month. The June nomination comes just a week after the Donegal star won the May award, which followed Ryan McHugh’s player award in April. The St Naul’s man continued his fine form with another man of the match performance last Sunday at

The fixture details for next month’s FAI Cup second round ties have been confirmed. The standout meeting of Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers will be played at Dalymount Park on Friday, the 19th. Cork City’s tie with Finn Harps is one of three fixtures to be played the following day. And among six ties down for

The GAA has confirmed the fixture details for the quarter finals of the All Ireland Football Championship. Donegal and Derry will both in action on Sunday the 30th June. Donegal’s clash with Louth will start at 1.15pm at Croke Park. It will be the first ever championship meeting of the two sides. The second game

The Donegal International is regarded by most competitors and followers as ‘The Big One’, not only in terms of competitive distance, but also in relation to difficulty, and prestige. For a long time, the only three-day event in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship calendar, and because of its traditional mid-summer date the event usually attracts

Finn Harps have confirm that Chris Lotefa’s loan has ended and he has returned to his parent club Bohemian FC. Finn Harps Manager Darren Murphy said; “I would like to thank Chris for his dedication and commitment to the club over the last few months and wish him well in the rest of his career

Ryan McHugh has been voted GAA.ie Footballer of the Week for a second time this year. The Donegal star received 3,632 votes on the GAA’s Official Instagram page which put him ahead of Armagh’s Conor Turbitt (2,608) and Dublin’s Cormac Costello (2,400). He starred in Donegal’s emphatic All-Ireland SFC win over Clare. The classy Kilcar

Irish sides have found out who will be their opponents in the opening rounds of European competition this summer. Shamrock Rovers will play Icelandic league winners Víkingur ((pr: vee-king-goor)) in the Champions League. Meanwhile in the UEFA Europa Conference League, both Shelbourne and Derry City will be making trips to Gibraltar. Shels have been drawn