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Mark English won the 800m race at the World Indoor Tour event in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday evening. Having navigated his way to a 9th national title last week, the Finn Valley man continued his good form in the Spanish capital running 1:46.58. His time was the second best of his Indoor career, just one

  The Republic of Ireland played out a goalless draw with China in their friendly in Marbella on Wednesday. Deborah-Anne De La Harpe and Aoife Mannion won their first caps from the start, while Marissa Sheva who’s grandparents hail from Donegal and Tyrone made her international debut as a second half substitute for Abbie Larkin.

Finn Valley’s Hannah Murray and Tir Chonaill’s Lucy McGlynn helped Ireland to medal at Tuesday’s DNA Under 20 European Team competition in Spain. Murray won silver in the 4x400m relay while McGlynn secured bronze in the 2x2x2 relay event. Ireland who were under Team Manager Dermot McGranaghan finished 5th in the inaugural running of the

A number of sustainable initiatives will form part of the Bundoran 10 event to be held in the town on the first weekend in March. Participants in the new 5km race on Friday March 3rd will be presented with a wooden eco medal with recycled ribbon. The metal medal for the 10 mile event on

Derry City opened their Premier Division account for 2023 with a 1-1 draw in Dublin against St. Patrick’s Athletic. Jordan McEneff put Derry ahead just past the half hour mark. It looked like the Candystrips were set for the full set of points only for Pat’s to score on the 89th minute through Joe Redmond

Five well known Donegal Lads in the adventure racing world in Ireland, left the Donegal Coast over 10 days ago to take part in the world’s longest running multi-sports event – Coast to Coast New Zealand. Arthur McMahon (Milford), Managing Director Donegal Oil Company and Founder of Donegal Oil Foundation, Boyd Robinson (Letterkenny), Gerard Callaghan

GAA stars from across the province will take to the skies next month for a daring skydive in aid of charity. GAA figures from each of Ulster’s nine counties will be taking on a 15,000 ft leap on Sunday 12th March to raise money for both the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at

ATU Donegal are through to this seasons CUFL College’s Men’s Premier Division Final. The Letterkenny College beat MTU Cork 3-2 on Tuesday to advance to the decider against Carlow. Stephen Black scoreD twice with headers in both halfs while Gabby Aduaka scored the other from the penalty spot. ATU lead 3-0, and despite a spirited

Donegal GAA have voted to continue with uneven age grades for 2023 but that could change. Club delegates made the decision this week following consideration of a report from the GAA National Task Force, which recommends that no player should have to play an Adult and U18 game within 60 hours of each other and

Donegal Academy coaches are stepping down from their roles with Donegal GAA in support of Karl Lacey who recently resigned as the Head of Academy. Leo McLoone and Luke Barrett the U20 and U17 coaches will remain in their positions along with their respective management teams as they are in season. All other academy coaches,

Donegal received a boost on Wednesday night as Oisin Gallen returned to action. The MacCumhaills man came on late in the first halffor DCU in their Sigerson Cup Semi Final against University Limerick and scored five points. UL won the game 3-12 to 0-12 and will play UCC in the final as the Cork side

Finn Harps have revealed details about the club’s new home jersey for the coming season. Sporting the logo for the new club sponsors, SoLo, the jersey is now available to order online. Harps begin their new First Division campaign on Friday week, February 17th at home to Galway United.

Lucy McGlynn of Tir Chonaill and FinnValley’s Hannah Murray have been named on the Ireland team for a new European team competition next month in Spain. The Under 20 DNA event in Madrid is a European Athletics initiative using the new format referred to as Dynamic New Athletics which will see 6 nations compete against

Glen have withdrawn their appeals against the result of last month’s All Ireland Club Football final. In a statement, the Derry club say that they don’t believe the conditions exist for a replay to happen. Earlier today Kilmacud Crokes lodged an appeal with the Central Appeals Committee after the CCCC ordered a replay of the

Karl Lacey has stepped away from his position as Head of Academy with Donegal GAA. The 2012 All Ireland winner and Player of the Year had overseen the academy for the past two years. In a message to his colleague’s in the academy Lacey said: “It is with a heavy heart and deepest regret I

Donegal Manager Paddy Carr has named his squad for their game on Sunday with Tyrone at Healy Park in Omagh. It shows just one change in the starting 15 with Termon’s Jamie Grant who was named to start last week but didn’t play named again at 7. If he lines out, he’ll take the place

Finn Harps FC have announced the signing of midfielder, Katlego Mashigo. The South-Africa international is the latest addition to Dave Rogers’ squad ahead of 2023. Mashigo began his career with St. Kevin’s Boys before moving to Fleetwood Town. He returned to Dublin with Bohemians before spells at Waterford FC, Athlone Town and most recently Portadown

Atlantic Technological University (ATU) has awarded a total of 20 Sports Scholarships at an event on campus on Thursday last. This included seventeen 1st Year New Entrant Sports Scholarships, one ATU Donegal/GPA Postgraduate Scholarship and two International Basketball Scholarships. ATU Donegal Head of Sport Michael Murphy was delighted to award the scholarships today: “Our ATU

Donegal’s Caolan McColgan has been voted GAA.ie Footballer of the Week. The promising Donegal football received 3, 901 votes on the GAA’s Official Instagram page which put him ahead of Meath’s Shane Walsh (3, 027) and Roscommon’s Niall Daly (2, 168) It was a sensational debut for the Naomh Padraig Muff man who struck three

Shane Duffy has made his loan move from Brighton to Fulham permanent on the final day of the Tuesday’s transfer deadline. The Republic of Ireland International joined the London club at the start of the season but with a club allowed just two loan players, Fulham have made Duffy’s deal permanent until the end of

Inishowen sisters Jodie and Kerri Loughrey have joined Sligo Rovers. 16 year old Jodie is an Irish International at both Under 16 and 17 level and was voted the country’s Player of The Year last year while her older sibling Kerri is also an underage international. The Buncrana girls are now preparing for the season

DCU progressed to the semi finals of the GAA’s third level education Sigerson Cup on Tuesday evening. The Dublin College had Termon’s Jamie Grant and St Eunan’s Shane O’Donnell in the their starting side which beat MTU Cork 2012 to 0-9. Glenfin’s Ross Marley also featured a second half substitute. In the other game on

The GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee has ordered a replay of the All-Ireland club football final. It comes following a hearing last night involving representatives from Glen and Kilmacud Crokes. Kilmacud won the original fixture by two points on the weekend before last – but had 16 players on the field when defending the final

Derry City have signed Preston midfielder Adam O’Reilly on a 2-and-a-half year deal. The 21-year old midfielder had an impressive loan spell last season at St. Pat’s. Derry boss Ruaidhri Higgins says, “He gives us a completely different dynamic to what we have, and it was clear from our discussions that he has an unbelievable

The Donegal hurlers are through to the final of the Conor McGurk Cup after Antrim pulled out of this weekend’s semi final. Mickey McCann’s Donegal were due to play the Saffrons in Saturday’s semi final in Banagher but Antrim have made the decision to forfeit the game. It means Donegal will play University Ulster in

Cockhill Celtic will once again be on the road in the FAI Intermediate Cup. The Ulster Senior League champions have been drawn away to Home Farm or Drumconda in the quarter finals of the competition with the winners also on the road in the semi final. Cockhill’s quarter final tie in Dublin will be played