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Finn Harps have announced Daniel Cunningham and Conor McGranaghan have signed senior deals for the 2025 season! Cunningham, a strong centre half, is the current captain of the Harps MU20s side. The 18-year-old has represented the club at every age group from MU13 to MU20 and was also capped by the Ireland Schoolboys side earlier […]

Donegal’s Shane O’Donnell and Tyrone’s Kieran McGeary are two of four nominee’s for this week’s GAA.ie Footballer of the Week. Meath’s Jordan Morris and Kerry’s Seán O’Shea are also in the running. St Eunan’s clubman O’Donnell starred for Donegal against Monaghan on Saturday, contributing three points from play for Jim McGuinness’ outfit in a Man

Mayo are searching for a new football manager after the County Board brought an end to Kevin McStay’s three years in charge. The decision to relieve the management team of their duties was made at a meeting in Castlebar last night. A health issue had forced McStay to take a step back ahead of Mayo’s

Errigal Ciaran will begin the defence of their Tyrone SFC title in a tough first round clash with Ardboe The draw for the 2025 series, held on Wednesday evening at the premises of competition sponsors Connollys of Moy, paired last year’s beaten finalists Trillick with 2020 champions Dungannon for the third year in a row.

The fixtures for the Donegal Boys Youth Golf Matchplay Championship has thrown up some very interesting matches. 2024 winners – Letterkenny G.C, will play last years Plate winners Dunfanaghy G.C. The re-emergence of Strabane G.C. has them pitted against Ballybofey and Stranorlar G.C. Buncrana GC. will play Portsalon and in the big Inishowen derby –

Derry City have taken back to back wins in Dublin in recent days. Tiernan Lynch’s side followed up Friday’s win over champions Shelbourne with a 1-0 victory at Richmond Park over Stephen Kenny’s St Patrick’s Athletic. Liam Boyce scored the goal on 29 minutes to give Derry another set of full points and they move

  Three full days, 20 epic stages, and 274 kilometres of competitive action. The Donegal International Rally is here, and 11 hopeful Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy members are set to give it their best. Fresh from their European Rally Championship podium on Rally Poland, Jon Armstrong and Shane Byrne will debut M-Sport’s 160th Ford Fiesta

The Donegal Sports Star Awards committee held its 50th Annual General Meeting in the Mount Errigal Hotel on Tuesday evening. It was an opportunity to reflect back on a hugely successful function last January which was attended by over 600 guests and to continue planning for the 20250 awards which will be the big 50th

Derry manager Paddy Tally has named his squad for Saturday’s All-Ireland clash with Dublin in Newry, making one change to the starting line up from the draw with Galway. Odhran Lynch returns from a quad injury to take his place in goals, taking the spot of Ben McKinless. Conor McCluskey is also back in the

Donegal Manger Jim McGuinness has made three changes to his side for Sunday’s crucial final group game in the All Ireland series. Shaun Patton, Daire O’Baoill and Oisin Gallen come in to the first fifteen for Gavin Mulreaney, Caolan McColgan and Patrick McBrearty. Mulreaney who played the games against Cavan and Tyrone is not in

Everton have offered Seamus Coleman a new contract. The Ireland and Toffees made just seven appearances last season because of injury. As a result, the 36-year-old missed out on Ireland’s friendlies this month. Everton boss David Moyes had made it clear he was keen for Coleman to remain in the playing squad. The Killybegs native

Donegal’s Michael Murphy has been named among the nominees for the PwC GAA / Gaelic Players Association Football Player of the Month for May. The Glenswilly man was pivotal in Donegal retaining the Ulster title as they edge Armagh once again to the Anglo Celt Cup. Derry’s Conor Glass who put in a huge shift

The official launch of the Wilton Recycling Donegal International Rally Launch will take place this Friday evening in Letterkenny and the much anticipated entry list will also be released. The event will take place in the Letterkenny Public Services Centre, Neil T Blaney Road (F92 TNY3). Light refreshments served at 7pm and launch commences at

The nominees for the 35th Football Association of Ireland (FAI) International Awards have been confirmed ahead of an event on Friday, June 6th. Three Donegal players, Tyler Toland, Anna Patten and Luke O’Donnell have been included. St Johnston native Toland is nominated in the Young Women’s International Player of the Year category along with Abbie

Tyrone have made three changes to their stating line up from the Ulster semi final defeat for Saturday’s All Ireland group game away to Donegal. Mattie Donnelly is back in the first 15 and is named in the half forward line in place of Joe Oguz. Peter Harte comes into the full forward line ahead

Donegal Minister of State, Charlie McConalogue, dropped the flag to officially start the 70th edition of An Rás Tailteann in Drogheda on Wednesday. Speaking just before the riders stated out on the first day of the five-day event, the Minister for Sport and Postal Policy commented: “As Sports Minister, I want to see participation levels

Participants in the 2025 Donegal Half Marathon, which is being held in association with Kernan’s, will be presented with a medal containing an image of Errigal Mountain. In previous years, the medal centrepiece had images of Fanad Lighthouse, Sliabh Liag, New Mills Corn and Flax Mill and Malin Head. “After Covid, the Donegal Half Marathon

Donegal’s Republic of Ireland International Tyler Toland could be on the lookout for a new club. Blackburn Rovers have withdrawn from the second tier of English women’s club football. They finished second-from-bottom in the Women’s Championship, which will be rebranded as the Women’s Super League 2 from next season onwards. The club owners decided against

Republic of Ireland boss Carla Ward hopes her new recruit can fill the gap left by the injured Leanne Kiernan. The Liverpool attacker will miss the upcoming Nations League matches against Turkey and Slovenia with a quad injury. US-born Erin Healy – with a Monaghan grandparent – has received her first call-up. Louise Quinn has

Finn Harps have confirmed the departure of David Cawley from the club. The Mayo man who joined from Sligo Rovers ahead of last season is leaving due to family commitments. Given his quality and experience, over 400 senior appearances in the League of Ireland, his departure will be seen as a blow to Harps. Harps