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The draw for the 2023 Dr McKenna Cup will take place this evening. The competition, which gets underway on Wednesday, January 4th will offer new Donegal manager Paddy Carr his first taste of competitive action. All nine Ulster counties will be involved in the competition – and they will be split into three groups of […]

Keith Cowan’s term at Drogheda United has come to an end. The former Finn Harps captain spent one season with The Drogs after spells in the Irish league with Glentoran and Dungannon Swifts. Cowan helped Drogheda to 8th in the Premier Division. Short, but very sweet, is how i would describe my time @DroghedaUnited. Unfortunately

donegal gaa The GAA have confirmed the league fixtures for next season. The new Donegal management under Paddy Carr will play the first of their three home games against Kerry at the end of January. The other two home games are against Galway and Mayo. Donegal’s fixtures for the 2023 Allianz Football League 29/1 Home

The FAI have been fined 20 thousand euro after the Republic of Ireland women’s team were recorded singing a pro IRA chant in October. UEFA handed down the fine after a video emerged of the squad singing ‘Celtic Symphony’ by the Wolfe Tones following the World Cup playoff win over Scotland. The European football body

Martin McHugh[/capt The Donegal Sports Star Award winners of 1982 are set to be honoured at a 40th anniversary event in the Mount Errigal Hotel on Monday the 9th of January. The evening will also see the launch of the 2022 Donegal Sports Star Awards. There were 22 awards presented at the function in the

Buncrana Hearts have been handed a home draw in the 5th round of the FAI Junior Cup while Castlefin Celtic will be on the road to Limerick. After last weeks win over Malahide, Buncrana’s reward is a home fixture against the winner of the all Dublin battle of Montpelier FC and Valley Park United. Castlefin

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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