The much-anticipated Donegal International Rally is set to return for another exciting weekend of motorsport action from June 20th to 22nd, 2025. The rally, renowned for its spectacular scenery, challenging stages, and passionate fanbase, will again be proudly sponsored by Wilton Recycling. Continuing a successful partnership helped elevate the event to new heights in recent […]
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On this weeks DL Debate Brendan Devenney talks Ulster Championship football with Ryan Bradley, Peter Canavan and Enda Muldoon.
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The official launch of the Ulster Championship took place in Armagh early this week. Donegal, having completed their league programme last weekend against Mayo, immediately turned their attentions to their championship meeting with Derry on Sunday 6th April in Ballybofey. Shane O’Donnell was among those in attendance at the launch event, the St. Eunan’s man
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The Annual Finn Harps Academy Golf Classic will take place on Sunday 17th August 2025 at the Ballybofey and Stranorlar Golf Club. Speaking at the launch; John Campbell the Academy Chairman stated: I am delighted as Chairman of Finn Harps Academy to be here at the Launch of our Golf Classic with our friends at
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Ardara native Sean McLoughlin was to the fore in organising the first ever GAA match to be played on Antarctica. Sean is an Ocean scientist at the Rothera Research Station and arranged the game as part of their St Patrick’s celebrations on the world’s least populated continent. He is hopeful on getting the game official
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This week on The Score, Anthony Gorman talks all things Finn Harps and Derry City, there’s reaction from the latest series of games in the Ulster U20 Championship, Shane O’Donnell looks ahead to Donegal’s championship opener with Derry and we speak with Ardara native Sean McLoughlin who was central in organising the first ever
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Derry City will travel to play Shamrock Rovers in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division on Friday evening. Both teams have had mixed starts to the season – The Candy Stripes have been beaten three times in their first six outings, while the Dubliners have lost twice in their first five. Having said that, both
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Letterkenny Rugby Club have confirmed their new coaching set up and addition players for next season. A host of City of Derry players and coaches have made the move to the Dave Gallagher Grounds. Ex Derry head coach Richard McCarter and former player Neil Burns are in as the new assistant and player coach to
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Darren Murphy says no deal has been struck with Loughgall about the managers role at the Irish League club. Murphy left Finn Harps on Tuesday evening and says he has been honest with the club about the talks with Loughgall. He is now seen as the firm favourite to take that job which is just
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Finn Harps player Gavin McAteer was part of the The Republic of Ireland Under-17 men’s squad which qualifies for the World Cup for the first time on Tuesday. A 5-0 rout of Iceland in Poland sees Colin O’Brien’s side finish second in their qualifying group, going through the finals later this year. The Milford man
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Kevin McHugh, Eamon Curry and Tommy Canning will take charge of Finn Harps for the coming weeks as the club begins the process once again of appointing a new first team manager. Despite signing a three year deal towards the end of last year, Darren Murphy left the club on Tuesday evening. There has been
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Finn Valley AC will stage a reception to honour European Athletics Indoor Championship 800m bronze medallist Mark English and 4x400m finalist Arlene Crossan. The event takes place this Saturday, March 29, at 2pm at the Finn Valley Centre. English clocked 1:45.46 in the 800m final to take third spot at the Omnisport in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
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Corrigan Park has been confirmed as the venue for Antrim’s Ulster football quarter-final with Armagh on April 12th. The game had been fixed for Pairc Esler in Newry owing to the limited capacity of Corrigan Park, but Antrim insisted the game be played in Belfast. Ulster GAA now say they have received satisfactory assurances from
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On This Weeks DL Debate Brendan is joined by Hurling Boss Mickey McCann,GAA Sports writer Christy O Connor and Former Mayo star John Casey. The DL Debate in association with Sara’s Kitchen at Sister Sara’s Letterkenny:
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This week on The Score, Former Finn Harps Captain Gavin Cullen looks ahead to Finn Harps clash with Bray Wanderers in the SSE Airtricity League, there’s reaction from Donegal’s Under20 Championship win with Manager Gary Boyle and Captain Sean Martin while Ryan Ferry – Sports Editor of the Donegal News previews the games this
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Errigal Ciaran’s Ruairí Canavan has been shortlisted for the AIB Club Player of the Year award. The Tyrone forward is named along with Cuala’s Con O’Callaghan and Micheál Burns of Dr Crokes. Peter Óg McCartan, Joe Oguz, Peter Harte and Darragh Canavan also join Ruairi on the AIB Team of the Year. Errigal lost out
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Leitrim senior football manager Steven Poacher says they expect to fulfil their Allianz National League game against Sligo on Sunday. It comes after they conceded their Division 3 clash against Fermanagh after claiming that they only had 16 players available. Leitrim have already been relegated to the fourth-flight ahead of the final round of matches
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End of rally engine failure for Jon Armstrong and Donegal’s Shane Byrne handed 2025 West Cork Rally honours to Keith Cronin and Mike Galvin after a close battle between the two crews over the event’s three days of action. Armstrong and Byrne looked to have claimed a 34.8-second victory before their Ford Fiesta Rally2 ran
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Kilkenny man Cathal O’Reilly won the Elite Mile road race in Letterkenny on St. Patrick’s Day. Kevin McGrath of Bohermeen AC in County Meath was second. The event drew a strong field but nobody managed to dip under the four minutes with McGrath winning in four minutes 14 seconds. Finn Valley AC’s Roisin Flanagan was
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St Pat’s College, Maghera won their sixth All Ireland Senior Football College’s Hogan Cup on St Patrick’s Day after comfortably defeating St Colman’s of Claremorrris by ten points in the final at Croke park. It finished 2-8 to 0-4 in favour of St. Pat’s with both goals coming in the second half. And for St
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This week on The Score, Former Finn Harps player Joe Boyle joins us for our weekly League of Ireland chat as we look ahead to this weekend’s games for Finn Harps and Derry City. Cahair O’Kane of the Irish News runs his eye over the penultimate round of games in the Allianz league for
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For about a decade unlicensed broadcasters disrupted Ireland’s media industry, by flooding the airwaves with local programmes. They forced newspapers in Derry, Donegal and Tyrone to adapt to competition for advertising, became a new platform to air local issues on current affairs and united communities throughout the region as they gained huge audiences. Pirate radio
GAA Ard Chomhairle have voted to ratify some adjustments to the Gaelic football core enhancements recommended by the Football Review Committee. They will be implemented for county games immediately and for club games at the discretion of county boards between now and May 1st. They are as follows: Play on immediately – Kick Out Mark
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On this week’s DL Debate, Brendan Devenney talks GAA with County Senior manager Jim McGuinness, along with former county star John Gildea and St. Eunan’s legend John Harran, We hear from one of the greatest forwards in the game – Monaghan’s Conor McManus, and for a bit of GAA nostalgia, Brendan speaks with Dublin footballing
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It was a memorable and historic day on Sunday for Irish Athletics as Team Ireland won three medals at the European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands. Among them was Donegal’s Mark English, who won bronze after a fantastic run in the Men’s 800M Final. The Finn Valley athlete has now won more championship medals than
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As part of Women in Sport Week, hosted by the Donegal Sports Partnership and in the lead up to International Women’s Day, the Sunrise Dip took place on Friday morning at Rathmullan Pier. Open water swims and dips have become popular in recent years and Oisin Kelly went along for Highland Radio Sport:
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Finn Valley’s Mark English has qualified for the semi-finals of the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. English moved from 4th to 2nd on the home straight as he navigated through some argy-bargy in the field to seal automatic qualification. The time for the double European Indoor medallist was 1:46.42 and he will be
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A big weekend lays ahead for the Donegal U16 League side who will be bidding for All Ireland glory in Limerick. They face Cork in the SFAI Inter-League Final at the University of Limerick on Saturday morning at 11.30am. On route to the decider Donegal have beaten Belfast, Dundalk and Galway, scoring 9 goals, 7
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This week on The Score, Former Finn Harps Captain Declan Boyle joins us to talk League of Ireland Football, We hear from Donegal U16 Manager Darren Toland ahead of their All Ireland Final in Limerick. There’s Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair Manager Padraig McGinley on their third national SFAI title in row, Brid McGinty on the
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Runners taking part in the 2025 Strabane Lifford Half Marathon can look forward to a new, faster route when they take to the start line at the Alley Theatre on Sunday May 18th. The 10th edition of the event was formally launched this week on the steps of the venue by Mayor of Derry City
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The 2025 Leo Molloy Darts Singles Tournament takes place in Kilcar this Saturday March 8th with registrations in Kilcar House from 2:30pm. Leo who did so much for darts not just in the south west but for Donegal and was the manager of the very first Donegal team to win the All Ireland and he
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Finn Valley AC have been named as the Athletics Ireland Cross Country Club of the Year for 2024. This is a seriously momentous day for the club and a testament to the hard work and effort put in by athletes and coaches alike over recent months. Finn Valley AC will be officially presented with the
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Dungloe cueist, Shaun Sharkey, had a great run at last weekend’s Ultimate Pool Pro Event held in Daventry, England. Shaun graduated to the professional ranks just over a year ago, after coming through the extremely competitive Challenger system. With 160 players – many of them fellow professionals – competing for the prestigious British Open title,
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The 2025 Donegal Half Marathon, which will be held in association with Kernan’s, will take place on Sunday, August 24th in Letterkenny. First held in 2014, the race has grown in popularity and attracted almost 600 entries last year. Speaking at the launch of the event, Donegal Half Marathon Chairman, Myles Sweeney, said the ability
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On this week’s DL Debate, Brendan Devenney is joined by Michael Mc Mullen of the Gaelic Life and Tyrone star Enda Mc Ginley The DL Debate in association with Sara’s Kitchen at Sister Sara’s Letterkenny:
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This week on the Score, Former Finn Harps Captain Keith Cowan looks ahead to this weeks games for Finn Harps and Derry City. 2012 All Ireland winner Frank McGlynn previews Donegal’s next assignment in the league against Derry. We speak with rally men Aaron Johnston and Eamonn Kelly about their recent podiums in Sweden and
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The ATU Donegal’s women’s soccer side have qualified for the final of this season’s O’Regan Cup. The Letterkenny college beat Maynooth University on penalties in Wednesday’s semi final at the Port Road campus. Caoimhe Herron scored the games only goal for ATU as the tie ended 1-1 after extra time. Erin McLaughlin, Ellie Long and
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Carndonagh’s Kyle McBride started his charge for the British Rally Junior Championship title by taking victory in the opening round on Sunday. Along with navigator Darragh Mullen in a Rally 4 Peugeot 208, the crew won the East Riding Stages in Yorkshire by over 10 seconds from two other Irish drivers, Craig Rahill and Keelan
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On this week’s DL Debate, Brendan Devenney is joined by former Donegal player Michael Hegarty and Galway All Ireland winner Sean O’Domhnaill. Donegal Hurling Captain Conor Gartland reflects on their historic win over Kerry and Maureen O’Donnell talks Ladies Football. The DL Debate in association with Sara’s Kitchen at Sister Sara’s Letterkenny:
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Finn Valley’s Mark English and Arlene Crossan have both had their selection for the European Indoor Championships confirmed today by Athletics Ireland. National 800m record holder English missed the National Championships at the weekend but the four times European medalist will be taking to the track in Apeldoorn, Netherlands next month. It’s a first
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This week on the Score, Former Finn Harps Manager Anthony Gorman joins us to look ahead to the action for Finn Harps and Derry City. The Donegal League are facing into an Oscar Traynor Cup quarter final against Mayo, we speak with Manager Eamonn Sheridan. Jim McGuinness’s Donegal head to Galway this weekend as the
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The GAA’s Annual Congress is up and running at the Abbey Hotel in Donegal Town today and over four hundred people will attend over the next few days. It’s just the third time that Congress has come to the county and a first since 1988. The official opening is on Friday evening but Thursday is
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Mark English has withdrawn from this weekend’s National Indoor Championships. The Finn Valley man has been in excellent form in recent weeks which included a new national record, shaving almost a second off his old record in New York. English’s withdrawal comes after advice from his physio but he is expected to be fit for
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Donegal Jockey Patrick McGettigan is travelling to Pisa, Italy this week to compete in the Ribot Cup. The 16 year old will be the youngest jockey riding in the event at the racecourse of San Rossore. Patrick was one of several jockey’s selected from all over Europe to race. The Ribot Cup on Sunday will
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The culmination of the 2024 Donegal Commercial Vehicles Club Championship will take place on Saturday night 22nd February with St Eunans GAA clubhouse hosting the evening at 7:30pm. A range of awards will be presented on the night after a fantastic and intense year of Motorsport within the county. The year started in March last
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Paddy McBrearty has been voted GAA.ie Footballer of the Week. The classy Donegal forward received 4,742 votes on the GAA’s Official Instagram page which put him ahead of Cork’s Chris Óg Jones (3,437) and Dublin’s Seán Bugler (2,625). Donegal maintained their unbeaten start to Division One by whipping the All Ireland Champions Armagh in Ballybofey
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On this week’s DL Debate, Brendan Devenney is joined by Armagh’s Aaron Kernan and Niall Loughran of the Irish News to recap the weekends action. Donegal hosts Congress this week, we also hear from Central Council Delegate and chair of the organising committee Sean Dunnion. The DL Debate in association with Sara’s Kitchen at Sister
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Donegal Captain Patrick McBrearty has been named as one of this weeks nominees for GAA.ie Footballer of the Week. Donegal maintained their unbeaten start to Division One by whipping the All Ireland Champions Armagh in Ballybofey with the Kilcar man kicking 0-6, five of which came from play. Dublin’s Seán Bulger and Chris óg Jones
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Fanad United will once again be at home for the quarter final stage of the FAI Junior Cup. The Donegal League side will host nine times winners from Limerick – Fairview Rangers. Fanad reached the last eight with a penalty shoot-out win over Waterford’s Tramore at Traigh-A-Loch on Sunday while Fairview defeated the highly fancied
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After Friday’s 2-0 defeat in Kerry, Finn Harps play their first home game of the season next Friday 21st February against league favourites Dundalk. It’s been a busy period in the lead up to the season with the Harps committee pushing their new membership model and making the stadium in Stranolar the club’s priority. The
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