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Nine Swilly Seals ASC swimmers recently travelled to the University of Limerick Sports Campus to compete in the final Swim Ireland competition of the 2022-2023 season for the nation’s age-group swimmers. The competition format was amended this year to provide two long course (50m) competitions for swimmers by age category; the Irish National Age-Group Championships

Martin Harley continued on his winning ways in Australia this week. On Thursday he won on Twyford at Ipswich and yesterday he rode The Big Goodbye to victory at Grafton. The Trentagh native has rode six winners so far this month Down Under. The Big Goodbye overhauls a very brave Ranges in the 2023 Ramornie!

Letterkenny man Killian Gribben will be back on court this evening as Ireland play their fourth game at the FIBA U20 Men’s European Championship. The Irish will take on hosts North Macedonia in their final group game looking for a second win in the competition. They took their first victory on Tuesday beating Slovakia 78-68

Last weekend saw Donegal Motor Club member Denis Ferry combine both his addictions of Rallying & Landrovers when he made the trip over to Wales to the World Famous Nicky Grist Stages rally organised by the Quinton Motor Club which uses a majority of stages from the old Rally GB WRC Stages. Denis flew across

Donegal GAA have ratified an Interim Implementation Team following the review by Croke Park. Dr Billy Bennett who is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Registrar at ATU has been appointed Head of Operations. Coach Education Manager with Ulster GAA Roger Keenan has been appointed Coaching Support while Tyrone native and retired Vice-Principal of

Snetterton in Norfolk was the venue for round five of the Pirelli National Superstock championship and with a strong fourth place, Richard Kerr and the Dumfries-based AMD Motorsport team were able to consolidate their second place overall in the championship standings. Picking up from where he left off in previous rounds, the 23-year old was

Rory Kavanagh will not be going for the Donegal Senior Managers job. Ryan Ferry reports in Monday’s Donegal News that the St Eunan’s man has ruled himself out of the running. Speaking after the drawn league game with Naomh Conaill at the O’Donnell Park in Letterkenny, Kavanagh said “No, it won’t be” when asked would

Ireland’s Rachael Darragh has lost her final group game in the Women’s Singles at the European Games. The Donegal woman produced a strong performance but narrowly came out on the losing side against France’s Xuefei Qi 2-0. Darragh played well in the opening set but ultimately lost it 21-18. The 25-year-old put in a valiant

Finn Harps have announced Aaron McLaughlin has signed a new three and a half year deal with the club McLaughlin, who joined the Finn Harps Academy from Mulroy Academy at age 12, made his senior debut earlier this season against Treaty United. The youngster marked the occasion with a superb solo goal to round off

Raphoe Badminton player Joshua Magee had two wins on Monday at the European Games in Poland. Team Ireland made the perfect start to the day with Magee and Moya Ryan in the mixed doubles. They enjoyed a 21-14 21-13 win over their Italian opponents and will be back out on Tuesday for another group match

Rory Gaffney’s first-half strike was enough to send Shamrock Rovers seven-points clear at the top of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division last night. Stephen Bradley’s side were 1-nil winners at home to second-placed Derry City. And despite spending most of the second half with ten men, Dundalk salvaged a 1-1 draw with St. Pat’s at

It’s been another good day for Ireland at the European Team Championships in Poland. After the third and final day of action, Ireland finished top of the Division Three standings and in doing so also secured promotion to Division Two for the games in Madrid IN 2025. Finn Valley’s Sommer Lecky played her part in

It’s been a good day for Ireland at the European Games in Poland. Donegal’s Kelly McGrory has played her part as Ireland move to the top of the Division 3 standings. The Tir Conaill hurdler finished second in the 400m hurdles, running 58.08 seconds. Tom Barr won his heat in the men’s 400-metre hurdles, while

The Donegal Sports Star Committee will shortly commence plans for the 48th Awards function. It comes after the Annual General Meeting took place on Monday evening in the Mount Errigal Hotel. There were no changes at the top table with all the main officers being returned unopposed. Grace Boyle is remaining on as Chairperson for

Derry City will start their European journey with a trip to the Faroe Islands. The Candystrips have been drawn away to Torshavn in the first qualifying round of the Europa Conference League with the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium to host the second leg. In the same competition, Dundalk will be at home to Bruno’s Magpies

There was delight for three charities on Monday night when the North West 10k cheque presentations were made in the Mount Errigal. An overall figure of €27,171 was raised and was shared equally between St. Bernadette’s Special School Letterkenny, Multiple Sclerosis Donegal Branch and the Letterkenny Community Development Project. It was the 26th staging of

Galway Senior Footballer Shane Walsh is taking a hugely exciting project called UPSKILL to Donegal this Summer. The All-Star Award winner is inviting teenagers between the ages of 13 -16 years of age to sign up for the camp at St Eunan’s GAA club in Letterkenny which starts on the July 10th. “UPSKILL camps will