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Scoil Mhuire Buncrana have won the FAI Schools Senior Girls National Cup. In today’s final played at Gortakeegan in Monaghan, the Inishowen side beat St Attracta’s Community School from Tubbercurry on penalties to take the title. The game ended scoreless after extra time with Bunrana winning the tie 4-2 on penalties. The Loughrey sisters Kerri […]

“The Player Pathway” is the theme of the Donegal GAA coaching conference taking place on Saturday, March 11th, at the Donegal GAA Centre in Convoy. This will be the first time a conference of this kind will be held in the county. Looking ahead to Saturday, Donegal GAA Coaching Officer, Michael McGeehin, said the event

Two-time European Indoors medallist, Mark English, has been forced to withdraw from this year’s event in Istanbul. The Donegal man pulled out due to illness leaving 13 Irish athletes to compete at the championships which start today. English, who was due to compete in the heats of the 800m, is disappointed not to be taking

Atlantic Technological University (ATU) will host the first ever University Fitness Games on Saturday 25 March at the universities Letterkenny campus. Third level students enrolled in universities from all over the island of Ireland will compete to see who is the fittest student in Ireland. This is the first event of its kind in terms

Alan Reynolds took charge of training at Derry City this week with Ruaidhri Higgins currently attending to family matters in Sweden. It is thought that ‘the gaffer’ plans to be in the dugout at Tallaght on Friday night but in Ruaidhri’s temporary absence, his assistant said that the players and staff were really looking forward

This years Donegal International Rally is going ahead as planned on the third weekend in June. The Donegal Motor Club has confirmed the event will run this year after comments on social media were suggesting the rally may not take place. In a short statement, the club said: “In the interest of clarity and to

The 2023 Donegal Half Marathon will take place in Letterkenny on Sunday, August 27th. This year will see the tenth staging of this year’s event and the Kernan Retail Group will be the main sponsor for a fifth successive year. Speaking at the launch of the event at The Bistro at Letterkenny Retail Park, Donegal

All roads lead to Finn Park this Friday night as Finn Harps play host to Bray Wanderers. Kick-off at Finn Park is 8pm and Diarmaid Doherty will have LIVE updates on Highland in association with B&S Credit Union Ballybfoey. Harps will be looking to get their first points of 2023 on the board after suffering

St Columba’s College Stranaolar won the FAI Schools Dr Tony O’Neill Ulster Cup (Under 19, Large Schools) on Tuesday afternoon beating Carndonagh Community School 2-1 in the final. Mark Mbuli and Sean McMenamin scored for St Columba’s who will be back on the pitch on Thursday in the All Ireland semi final. CBS Wexford will

The Donegal GAA Academy will be moving forward without Karl Lacey with the County Board informing the clubs they have reluctantly accepted his resignation. Karl resigned as Head of Academy several weeks ago and in a statement this afternoon, the board say they exhausted all avenues of mediation in the hope of Lacey returning to

Finn Harps are on the road this Friday night as Dave Rogers’ side travel to Athlone Town. Kick-off at Athlone Town Stadium is 7.45pm and Darren Kelly will have LIVE updates on Highland in association with B&S Credit Union, Ballybofey. Harps will be looking to get their first points of 2023 on the board after

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,