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Former Irish Rugby player Bernard Jackman is being linked with a position on the Donegal GAA senior backroom team. Highland Radio Sport understands Jackman is set to join up with Manager Paddy Carr and coach Aidan O’Rourke as inter county training officially returns this Friday. Jackman played rugby with Connacht, Leinster and the Sale Sharks […]

Donegal have being drawn against Antrim in the quarter finals of next year’s Ulster U20 Championship. Donegal will go into 2023 with a new management in place lead by 2012 All Ireland winner Leo McLoone. The winner of that tie will take on the winners of the Derry Fermanagh clash in the semi final. Tyrone

Teresa McDaid was honoured at the Athletics Ireland awards on Wednesday. The Letterkenny AC coach was among the European Coaching Award winners. Teresa  has been Senior Irish Team manager at Olympics, World & European Championships on multiple occasions and was also Team lead at the European Cross Country. Mark English’s coach Feidhlim Kelly was also

  Three north west athletes have been included on the Ireland team for next months European Cross Country Championships in Italy. Letterkenny AC’S Ann Marie McGlynn and Finn Valley’s Roisin Flanagan have been named on the senior women’s team and Finn Valley’s Sean McGinley has been included on the U20 men’s for the championships in

A late Tim Callaghan goal saw Letterkenny Rovers deservedly gain a share of the spoils when drawing 2-2 with Derry City Reserves in an entertaining game at the Leckview Astro on Tuesday evening. Rovers started off brightly and bossed the opening fifteen minutes and cane closest through Simon McGlynn but it was the Candystripes who

The North West 10k held their AGM on Thursday evening in the Mount Errigal Hotel with two changes in personnel on the Executive Committee confirmed following the election of officers. Gerard McGinley and Mary Fleming McCrossan have taken up the Treasurer and Minutes Secretary portfolios succeeding Anne Condon and Bernie Brennan who are both remaining

Sligo Rovers have signed defender Danny Lafferty from Derry City. The full-back made 25 appearances in the league for the Candystripes this season, and was part of their FAI Cup-winning squad. The defender has had spells in Scotland, signing for Celtic in 2006, and England where he joined Burnley in 2012, making fourty appearances for

The St Johnston support had the National Stadium rocking on Saturday night as their man Brett McGinty moved to 6-0 in his professional career. The Ricky Hatton trained Donegal middlweight beat Italian Alessandro Ruggiero 59-55 over six rounds in Dublin in what was his fight pro fight in Ireland. McGinty who looked comfortable throughout the

Craig Breen is back with Hyundai after walking away from M-Sport. On Thursday, Breen extracted from his two year deal with the Malcolm Wilson’s team following a run of form which seen him crash in five of the last seven outing’s in the Puma. The Waterford man will share Hyundai’s third car with Dani Sordo

Tyrone star Conor McKenna is set to return to the AFL joining Queensland side the Brisbane Lions for the 23/24 season. It’s understood he spoke to five AFL clubs before deciding on Brisbane as his new home. The Eglish Clubman previously played over 70 times for AFL outfit Essendon before coming home to make his

Donegal Sports Partnership is teaming up with a number of sporting organisations to hold a free sports ability event for children with a disability and their families at ATU Letterkenny’s An Dánlann Sports Centre on Saturday, November 26th. Together with Basketball Ireland, Badminton Ireland, Ulster GAA, and Citadel Gymnastics, Donegal Sports Partnership is staging an

The deadline for nominations for the 2022 Donegal Sports Star Awards is rapidly approaching on Friday 25th November. It’s been the first full year of competitions following Covid and Awards Chairperson Grace Boyle is asking sporting organisations with significant achievements either as teams or individuals to submit nominations in the coming week. “We didn’t seek

Finn Harps will be facing a 820 kilometre round trip to Kerry in next seasons League of Ireland First Division. The FAI has confirmed that Kerry FC will play in the league for the first time and have been awarded a licence. The club will play at Mounthawk Park in Tralee, with the ground undergoing

The Republic of Ireland women’s side signed off on an historic year with a win on Monday evening. Ireland fielded a strong starting eleven for their friendly with Morocco in Marbella with Milford’s Amber Barrett named in attack. The Irish impressed in a 4-0 victory as Louise Quinn marked her 100th appearance with one of

Donegal are set to open their Allianz National Football league campaign against Kerry in Letterkenny in late January. Donegal will have three home games in Division One and four away from home in 2023. The draft fixtures plan with dates for games were sent out to the various county boards two weeks ago with Donegal

Donegal Sports Partnership is set to play an integral part in the Winter Initiative aimed at encouraging and motivating people of all ages and backgrounds to get active over the winter months. Speaking following the recent launch of the national campaign, Donegal Sports Partnership Coordinator, Myles Sweeney, said: “The DSP have quite a number of

The finalists for Motorsport Ireland’s Billy Coleman Young Rally Driver of the Year Award have been announced. Eamonn Kelly (23), has been named alongside Patrick O’Brien (25), from Omagh Co. Tyrone, and Kyle McBride (19), from Clonmany, Co. Donegal. All three drivers are in the running for the prestigious Motorsport Ireland Billy Coleman Young Rally

Republic of Ireland boss Stephen Kenny’s revealed that defender Shane Duffy’s been left out of his 26-man squad for ‘personal reasons’. Duffy has struggled for game time on loan at Fulham and is ommitted as is Derby County’s Jason Knight. 18-year-old Brighton striker Evan Ferguson has been called up for the first time along with

It was another successful night on Wednesday for the ATU Donegal as the Ladies’ team secured the victory in their latest HEC LGFA League Division 3 match. Barney Curran’s side had two points to spare in their 1-7 to 1-5 victory over Dundalk IT at the Donegal GAA Centre in Convoy. Downings Lauren McBride hit

Photo Stephen Doherty The SSE Airtricity Women’s National League will welcome in new teams for the 2023 season. Galway United and Shamrock Rovers have been invited to join the top tier of the women’s game at senior level to bring the total to 11 teams. Galway United will take over the slot vacated by Galway

The ATU Donegal men’s soccer side advanced in the CUFL Cup on Tuesday but they needed penalties to see of TUS Midlands in Athlone. The tie was locked at 2-2 after extra time with Odhran McGuinness and Lee McLaughlin scoring in the game. It was McLaughlin who would strike the winning penalty to send Shane

Jerome Johnston says he won’t be taking charge of Ballybay in their Ulster club football quarter-final against Kilcoo this weekend. Johnston is a native of Kilcoo and has three sons and six nephews on the Down champions’ panel. Ballybay – who won the Monaghan title for the first time in ten years this season –

Connor Coyle will return to the ring next month back in Florida. The Derry fighter will defend his NABA Middleweight title against Anibal Cleto Francisco (10-0 with 9KO’s) at the WBA convention in Orlando on Sunday 11th December. Coyle has a polished 17-0 record with 7 of those wins via knock out while Francisco brings

Supermoto racing returned last weekend, with the David Jeffries and Philip Wylie Memorial Races at Nutts Corner, under the auspices of the Temple MCC. Despite a damp start, the track soon dried up to give us some exciting and spectacular racing, both on solos and quads. Man of the day was Richard Kerr, the Kilmacrenan