Derry City FC have announced the signing of striker, Colm Whelan, on a 2-year contract. The 22-year old has been prolific during his time at UCD- netting 44 times in 66 games for ‘the students’. City boss Ruaidhri Higgins was delighted to get his man this week and said he was really looking forward to […]
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Cockhill Celtic will be on the road in the last 16 of the FAI Intermediate Cup with the Inishowen side facing a one thousand plus kilometre round trip to Carrigaline in Cork. The Ulster Senior League champions have been drawn away 2019 winners Avondale United with the game to be played on the weekend of
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igo rovers Sligo Rovers have issued a number of supporters with barring orders from attending Sligo Rovers fixtures at The Showgrounds following an investigation into recent incidents at our fixture against St. Patrick’s Athletic in October. Trouble broke out at half-time in the fixture between both sets of supporters and following investigations in association with
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Tyrone have received a triple boost with confirmation that their three most experienced players have committed to the season ahead. Peter Harte, Mattie Donnelly and Ronan McNamee have confirmed to managers Feargal Logan and Brian Dooher that they will be available for the 2023 campaign as last year’s All-Ireland champions bid to put a dreadful
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ATU Donegal won the HEC LGFA Division 3 league crown on Monday night beating St Mary’s Belfast 0-9 to 0-8. The Letterkenny ladies had to come from four down at the break to win and it sets the side up nicely for the championship at the turn of the year. ATU Manager Barney Curran was
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Donegal’s four time European medalist Mark English has joined the books of Pace Sports Management which is owed and run by fellow county and Finn Valley man Ricky Simms. English joins a team that is full of big stars with the most famous athlete in the world Usain Bolt also under the management of Simms.
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The Donegal senior ladies will have four home games in their 2023 Lidl Division 1 league campaign. Maxi Curran’s side will start on the 22nd January with an away trip to Galway before hosting reign champions Meath on the last weekend of the month. Donegal face long trips to Kerry and Cork in February but
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On this weeks DL Debate, Brendan Devenney has interviews and analysis of the weekend’s big games including Setanta manager Gary McGettigan and captain Mark Callaghan after their brilliant Ulster title win over Glenarm of Antrim. We also hear from a disappointed but proud Dessie Gallagher as his Dungloe side lost in the Ulster intermediate semi
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The Ulster Athletics Awards take place on Friday evening at the Bayview Hotel in Killybegs. European bronze medalist Mark English will be crowned Ulster Senior Male Athlete of the Year. Tir Conaill duo Lucy McGlynn and Fintan Dewhirst will also receive awards. Dewhirst won silver in the 400m hurdles at the Under-18 European Championships in
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Dungloe’s Ulster campaign continues on Sunday at Celtic Park in Derry when the men from the Rosses take on Tyrone Champions Gallbally Pearses in the Intermediate semi final. Join the Highland team of Oisin Kelly and Martin McHugh for full match commentary from the 4pm start in association with Dungloe GAA’s ‘Live Free in 2023”
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On The Score this week with Oisin Kelly, Setanta are looking to take a first Ulster Hurling title in five years this weekend. We’ll hear from the Donegal Champions camp ahead of their decider with Shane O’Neills of Antrim. Dungloe are looking to make a first ever Ulster football final. We speak with Manager Dessie
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Donegal hurling champions Setanta have their sights set on the Ulster glory as they head to Celtic Park in Derry on Sunday to face Antrim champions Shane O’Neills Glenarm in the provincial junior final. Setanta return to the final for the first time since 2017 and will look to replic that title winning victory. Tune
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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
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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
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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
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Shay Given has been inducted into the FAI Hall of Fame as part of the 32nd FAI International Awards. The Lifford native is one of six centurions for the Republic of Ireland Men’s Senior Team following his 134 appearances, which included a record 60 clean sheets. Given played at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and
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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
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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
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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
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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
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On this weeks DL Debate – The great man retires! Micheal Murphy calls time on a memorable career, Brendan speaks with two of his former team-mates Neil Gallagher and Rory Kavanagh to discuss the greatest player in our history and his impact on Donegal GAA. We have feedback from the Letterkenny Gaels camp as they
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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
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Niamh McLaughlin was named the Ladies Senior Player of Year at the LGFA All Stars on Saturday night in Dublin. The Donegal Captain beat Meath’s Emma Duggan and Kerry’s Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh to the award. The sheer consistency of McLaughlin’s performances around the middle third of the field earned her the nod from her peers,
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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
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Tributes have been paid throughout the day to Donegal’s Captain fantastic Michael Murphy who announced his inter-county retirement on Wednesday evening. For the first time in eleven years, Donegal are on the look out for a new leader after the Glenswilly man made the decision to hang up the boots. With Murphy’s departure there will be
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The Ulster journey for Letterkenny Gaels continues this Sunday with the Donegal Champions playing Stewartstown in the semi final of the Ulster Junior Football Championship. After their previous victory against Derrynoose, The Gaels will be looking to carry that winning form into the tie against the Tyrone champions. Oisin Kelly has been looking ahead to
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the score On The Score this week, there’s more on Michael Murphy’s retirement from the Donegal senior panel. We speak with fellow All Ireland winner Frank McGlynn on Michael stepping away. Athletic Ireland President John Cronin joins us ahead of Cranford’s hosting of the National Cross Country Championships. Brett McGinty tells us he is in
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Cranford AC are hosting the National Senior, Junior and Juvenile even age group Cross Country Championships at the Rosapenna Hotel and Golf Resort this Sunday November 20th. With European qualification up for grabs , the best runners in the country will be in Downings to tackle the course based on the driving range at Rosapenna.
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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
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Michael Murphy and Jim McGuinness lead Donegal to three Ulster titles and the All Ireland in 2012. McGuinness stepped away at the end of 2014 while Murphy announced his retirement from playing on Wednesday evening Glowing tributes have been paid to Michael who made 177 appearances in the Donegal jersey and is seen as one
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Donegal Captain Michael Murphy has announced his retirement from Inter county football. Donegal GAA confirmed Michael’s decision this evening. The Glenswilly man made his senior debut in 2007 for Donegal at the age of 18 and just five years later would lead Donegal to All Ireland glory. He would also captain Donegal to five Ulster
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Donegal’s Brett McGinty will box on home soil for first time in his professional career this Saturday. McGinty will take to the ring at the National Stadium on the Elite Sports Promotion Show, looking to build on his 5-0 pro record in what is his first fight in Ireland since 2019. In the lead up
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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
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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
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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
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Luke Barrett and Leo McLoone have been confirmed as the Donegal minor and u20 managers for next season. Donegal GAA said in a statement both ‘had agreed to accept the roles of Donegal U17 and U20 County team managers’. Milford native Luke is staying with the age group for another year having been at helm
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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
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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
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On this weeks DL Debate, Brendan Devenney looks back at all the weekends GAA action, with Setanta , Dungloe and Naomh Conaill representing Donegal in the Ulster club. Brendan’s guests are former Donegal and Naomh Conaill star John Gildea, Ryan Ferry of the Donegal News and Tyrone and Errigal Ciaran legend Endan Mc Ginley. Listen
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Derry City will look to take the FAI Cup for the first time since 2012 on Sunday when they take on Shelbourne in the decider at the Aviva Stadium. If the Candystrips can over turn Damian Duff’s side, it would be a first trophy at the Brandywell since the League Cup success in 2018 and
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Ronan Boyce is on the verge of a possible cup winners medal with Derry City. The Candystrips face Shelbourne on Sunday in the FAI Cup Final at the Aviva Stadium looking to lift the trophy for the first time in ten years. It’s a huge ocassion for Boyce who just two years ago was playing
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The National Cross Country Championships will be held in Donegal for just the second time on Sunday week. Cranford AC will welcome the best of the Irish cross country runners to the driving range of the Rosapenna Hotel and Golf Resort on Sunday 20th November. Oisin Kelly caught up with one of the men that’s
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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
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Former Donegal Gaelic football boss Jim McGuinness is among the names linked to the Finn Harps managerial role. Harps are on the lookout for a new manager for the first time in nine years following the departure of Ollie Horgan yesterday. McGuinness who guided his home county to the 2012 All-Ireland title has since moved
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Donegal Intermediate Champions Dungloe play in the Ulster Championship for the first time in the clubs history on Saturday. The Rossess men go to Antrim to face Dunloy in the quarter final of the second tier of the provincial competition. Dungloe progressed to ULster by defeating Naomh Columba comprehensively in the county final six weeks
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Naomh Conaill return to the Ulster Senior Club Championship for the first time since 2019 when they play Antrim Champions Cargin in Belfast’s Corrigan Park this Sunday. Oisin Kelly and Martin McHugh will have LIVE Match Commentary from on Highland in association with Highland Motors, Letterkenny. See highlandmotors.ie The Donegal champions will look to knock
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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
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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
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Derry City will look to get their hands on the FAI Senior Cup for the first in ten years this weekend. On Sunday afternoon, Ruaidhri Higgins Candystrips will play Damien Duff’s Shelbourne at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin’s D4 This is Derry’s first time competing in the Cup Final since 2014, on that occasion they
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Finn Harps are on the hunt for a new manager for the first time in nine years. Ollie Horgan departed the role by mutual consent on Wednesday. He guided Harps to promotion twice during his tenure, but Harps lost their SSE Airtricity Premier Division status at the end of the season. Horgan has his name
Ollie Horgan – It was never about me, it was always the club Read More »
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