An Inishowen Cllr is calling for a review of figures submitted to the Council for repair costs following August’s floods. While current costings stand in excess of 15 million euro, there are now fears that the bill could rise even more, owing to more instances of damage being discovered. Local Cllr Albert Doherty says […]
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Strabane based food manufacturer, Dragon Brand Foods is investing over half a million in jobs, innovation and a new factory with the support of Invest Northern Ireland. The company is due to begin construction on its new factory at Strabane Business Park as part of its plans to grow its business. Invest NI has
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Former Ireland captain Sean Cavanagh has been ruled out of next month’s International Rules series in Australia by club commitments. Cavanagh’s club Moy won the Tyrone IFC title on Sunday and Cavanagh and his brother Colm, who is also in Irish manager Joe Kernan’s plans, will be involved in the Ulster Club Championship. Cavanagh has
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Milford had a 5 point win over St. Naul’s in the Intermediate Football Championship Final in O’Donnell Park earlier today. It was a tight game that was level with 4 minutes to go, but Milford scored a crucial goal with 2 minutes remaining. Danny O’Donnell was with Tom Comack following his side’s win…
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Milford claimed their second ever Intermediate Championship with a 2-11 v 0-12 win over St. Naul’s. Paddy Peoples captained the side and he spoke to Oisin Kelly following their victory… Gary Merritt was man of the match for Milford, and he gave Oisin Kelly his thoughts…
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There were 2 games up for decision in the Ulster Senior League today. Reigning champions Cockhill Celtic kept their fantastic start to the season going today with a 6-0 win over Bonagee United. Laurence Toland was on the scoresheet again today following his hat-trick last week. James Bradley was the high-man with 2 goals, and
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Glenfin Ladies lost out to St. Macartan’s of Tyrone in the Ulster Club Ladies Quarter-Final with a scoreline of 2-13 v 4-05. Anna Marie McGlyn spoke with Diarmaid Doherty following the game… Diarmaid Doherty also spoke to the winning manager, Ryan McMenamin…
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Moy have won the Tyrone IFC by a single point over Derrylaughan, 2-05 v 1-07. They claim their first title in 35 years, with their last Tyrone IFC win coming in 1982. Francis Mooney has the full-time report for Highland Radio…
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The Donegal Uneven Ages and Novice Cross Country took place today at Finn Valley. The Men’s Novice’s was won by David McMenamin of Inishowen AC, and Jessica Roberts of Finn Valley won the Women’s. Milford won the men’s team event, and Finn Valley won the ladies’ team event. Patsy McGonagle was on Sunday Sport to
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Michael Murphy Sports and Leisure Intermediate Football Championship Final: Milford 2-11 v 0-12 St. Naul’s Michael Murphy Sports and Leisure Intermediate B Football Championship Final: Glenfin 0-12 v 0-08 Milford AllSportStore.com Division 2: Naomh Columba 3-10 v 2-08 Sean Mac Cumhaill Buncrana 1-09 v 0-07 Termon Killybegs 2-10 v 3-15 Aodh Ruadh, Ballyshannon
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Donegal County Council are advising that temporary road works are getting underway in Fahan village. Work begins tomorrow until Tuesday, while traffic lights will be also be in place. The Council are also advising motorists to allow extra time for their journeys if travelling in and around the village.
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Fianna Fáil’s Brexit spokesperson says the Oireachtas has been ‘stonewalled’ over critical information affecting the island of Ireland. Stephen Donnelly says a leaked Revenue report on the challenges of an open border post Brexit, shows there are elements in Government more interested in ‘playing party politics’ than working to protect the country’s economy. Deputy
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Jackie Crossan Premier Division Greencastle FC 1 V 0 Carn FC Buncrana Hearts 3 V 1 Glengad United Clonmany Shamrocks 3 V 1 Culdaff FC QPS 1 V 4 Aileach FC Strand Hotel Division One Moville Celtic 5 V 1 Dunree United Redcaste United 7 V 1 Gleneely Colts Buncrana Res 4 V 3 Rasheney
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Brian Mc Cormick Sports Premier Division Castlefin Celtic 15 v 1 Lagan Harps Kilmacrennan Celtic 0 v 3 Glenea United Donegal Town 0 v 1 Kildrum Tigers Rathmullan Celtic 1 v 2 Drumoghill F.C. Temple Domestic Appliances Division One Bonagee United 1 v 2 Ballybofey United Keadue Rovers 5 v 2 Erne Wanderers Lifford Celtic
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City of Derry and Omagh both lost out in the All-Ireland League this weekend, with Omagh taking their first loss of the campaign to Sligo, and City of Derry losing out to Sundays Well. City of Derry lost out 36-19 in Cork, with Omagh losing out down in Sligo 52-15. Letterkenny and Donegal Town faced
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Milford have defeated St. Naul’s by 5 points in the final of the Intermediate Football Championship with a scoreline of 2-11 v 0-12. Milford led for most of the game, with one of the major points coming 13 minutes into the first half with a Dara Black goal. That goal was the difference between the
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Glenfin lost to St. Macartan’s of Tyrone today in the Ulster Club Ladies Quarter-Final. Diarmaid Doherty had the full time report for Highland Radio…
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Tattyreagh have won the Tyrone Junior Football Championship with a 7 point win over Clogher. Francis Mooney reports for Highland Radio…
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A woman in her twenties has died in a collision in County Fermanagh. The one vehicle crash happened on the Newbridge Road in Derrylin shortly before midnight last night. Another woman and a man, both also believed to be in their twenties, were taken to hospital with injuries that are believed to be serious.
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Daryl Gurney won the World Grand Prix in the Citywest in Dublin last night, beating Simon Whitlock with a scoreline of 5 sets to 4. The Derry man is the first Irish player to win a major PDC title. Gurney spoke to Sky Sports after his win…
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Dundalk were 2-0 winners over Finn Harps in Ballybofey last night in a game that was well contested by both sides. Finn Harps played a great first half, but Dundalk were able to take the win through second half goals from Brian Gartland and Jamie McGrath. Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny spoke to Diarmaid Doherty following
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Glenfin have beaten Milford 0-12 v 0-08 to claim the Michael Murphy Sports and Leisure Intermediate B Football Championship Crown in O’Donnell Park in Letterkenny. It was a very tight affair in the first half, with neither team able to establish any dominance on the scoreboard. The teams traded scores for the entire half,
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Tyrone’s Kris Meeke has added winning the WRC Rally Catalunya in Spain to his list of accomplishments. Meeke and his navigator Paul Nagle won the rally with 28 seconds to spare over Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia. Earlier this year, the Tyrone man won the Rally Guanajuato, Mexico, and he was also victorious in the
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Peader Hurson and Damian Connolly won the 2017 Donegal Harvest Rally on Saturday. The crew drove their Ford Fiesta WRC to a first ever win in Donegal, taking the victory by just over a minute. Donegal’s Joe McGonigle and Ciaran Geaney were second in the Skoda while the top two wheel drive car was Ryan
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Donagh Kelly has swapped the Focus WRC for a classic Opel Ascona which he is running as a 00 in today’s Donegal Harvest Stages Rally under the car livery of James Cullen back in 1988. The car has been getting a lot of attention at the service area just out Falcarragh. Oisin Kelly spoke with
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Finn Harps Manager Ollie Horgan was disappointed after the 2-0 lost to Dundalk in Ballybofey on Saturday night. Harps stay in the bottom two with three games to go and need points from their next game against Derry City. They’ll go to Maginn Park without Ethan Boyle and Paddy McCourt who’s season’s maybe be over
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Finn Harps lost 2-0 to Dundalk at Finn Park on Saturday evening. The Ballybofey side remain second bottom in the standings with two games to go. Diarmaid Doherty reports for Highland Radio Sport…
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Peader Hurson and Damien Connolly have won the Donegal Harvest Rally in their Ford Fiesta WRC, coming in at a final time of 1:03:10.2. In second place, and just over a minute behind the leaders was Donegal man Joe McGonigle in their Skoda Fabia R5. And in third place, Ryan Loughran and Brendan McElinney in
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Full time: Four Masters CLG 4.08 Ardara GAA 2.09 Ardara enter the relegation playoff against Naomh Muire after a disappointing loss to Four Masters today. The Donegal town side were in control for a large part of the game, but an Ardara goal with just four minutes to go made it a one point game
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Glencar Inn Saturday Division One: Glenea United 2 V 1 Milford United Reserves Keadue Rovers FC 2 V 1 Orchard FC Arranmore United 1 V 4 Donegal Town FC Old Orchard Saturday Division 2: Drumbar FC 3 V 1 Kildrum Tigers Fintown Harps AFC 0 V 4 St. Catherine’s FC
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Letterkenny RFC had a strong win over Donegal Town today, beating the visiting side 45-10 and securing a bonus point. The game started off tight with Donegal Town taking an early lead, before Peter Scott pulled the match back in Letterkenny’s favour, with two penalty kicks. A Michael Boyle try then pushed the home side
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Donegal senior ladies champions Glenfin march on to the first round of the Ulster Championship tomorrow as they face Tyrone champions St McCartan’s. Glenfin, who have two All-Star nominees in Yvonne McMonagle and Karen Guthrie, go into the game full of confidence after their win over Moville in the Donegal championship final. Ahead of the
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The Intermediate B Final will take place tomorrow with Glenfin facing Milford in the early game in O’Donnell Park. Milford, who also have a team in the Intermediate A final, will be aiming to bring both trophies back to Moyle Park. Ahead of the game, Tom Comack spoke to Milford captain Enda McHugh and Glenfin
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St Naul’s manager John McNulty said that he doesn’t mind going into the Intermediate championship final as underdogs. McNulty’s men take on division one side Milford, in O’Donnell Park, tomorrow. Milford gained promotion to the top division last year and will take part in the championship final for the second year in a row, making
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Peader Hurson leads the Donegal Harvest Rally still after four stages. Heavy rain has made driving conditions for the driving extremely difficult, with several drivers being forced to retire from the race. Oisin Kelly has been speaking to Peader Hurson, Ryan Loughran, and Joe McGonigle…
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After a securing promotion to division one, Milford looked to crown their strong 2016 year with an Intermediate Championship title; but, it was not to be as Burt came away with the trophy. Milford have not let last year’s disappointment hold them back, with Danny O’Donnell’s men booking their place in the final once more.
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Derryman Shane Duffy played an important part in the Republic of Ireland’s win at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Friday night. The clean sheet in the two-nil will be as satisfying to him as the two goals scored by man of the match, Daryl Murphy. Murphy settled Irish nerves with a goal in
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Peader Hurson and Damian Connolly in their Fiesta WRC have increased their lead after four stages of the Donegal Harvest Rally. Oisin Kelly Reports….
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Derry’s Daryl Gurney is through to the World Grand Prix final in the Citywest in Dublin following his semi-final win over John Henderson last night. Gurney is continuing his fantastic year, and reached his first major televised final after losing out in the semi-finals of both the World Matchplay and the UK Open earlier this
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Peader Hurson leads the 2017 Donegal Harvest Stages Rally by over half a minute from Joe McGonigle with three stages completed. Oisin Kelly has the top ten details from the service park… Click below to hear the thoughts of Peader Hurson, Joe McGonigle, Kevin Eves and Damien Tourish…
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The Carndonagh to Drumfires/ Buncrana road is now reopen, almost seven weeks after it was badly damaged in August’s floods. The Council are continuing their recovering operation in Inishowen with the “Mountain Rd” also open to traffic with single lane crossing and traffic lighting assistance. Local Cllr Albert Doherty has been praising the ongoing efforts
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Defending champions Declan and Brian Boyle are out of this years Donegal Harvest stages rally. The 2017 event is being hosted today in the Falcarragh, Dunfanaghy, Creeslough and Gortahork areas. With the big news from the opening stage Oisin Kelly reports:
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Tuesday will see the first budget under the stewardship of Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach. Negotiations are continuing over the weekend between Paschal Donohue and his colleagues with the fiscal space estimated at 350 million euro. This morning minister Finian McGrath outlined what his priorities are:
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Hospital consultants are calling for significant investment to tackle waiting lists. The annual conference of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association is taking place in Limerick today. It comes the day after new figures showed nearly 678 thousand people are now on hospital waiting lists. Among the speakers is Health Minister Simon Harris. President of
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A man has appeared before Derry Magistrate’s Court charged in connection with a break in at Christ Church, Derry last month. The man was identified by his mother after Police issued images of two males they wished to speak to in connection with the incident. The total damage caused is estimated to be in
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The senior Garda officer in Donegal has told the Charleton tribunal she wanted Gardai to be seen to be acting in a “clear and transparent” manner in investigating allegations made against whistleblower Garda Keith Harrison. Chief Superintendent Terry McGinn has told the tribunal that following the Morris tribunal, there was a lack of confidence
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Finn Harps fight to stay in the Premier Division continues this evening at Finn Park with Dundalk the visitors. Lodged in the relegation zone with four games to go, Harps are targeting three results in the run in to avoid the drop. A favourable outcome tonight over last years champions would be a huge boost.
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Police in Omagh are appealing for information after a gang of males carried out an assault in the town in the early hours of Sunday morning last. It is believed that a man is his 20s was set upon by the group of males at the junction of High Street and Bridge Street at around
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Four Irish Red Cross volunteers are to be recognised for their successful intervention at the scene of a sudden cardiac arrest at the National Rowing Championships in Ballyshannon. The Donegal Area of the Irish Red Cross were on duty during the competition on August 19th when a competitor in the Veteran Men’s Heat had gone
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Gardai in Falcarragh are advising motorists of traffic arrangements ahead of tomorrow’s Harvest Stages Rally. The rally will take place on the Creeslough to Gortahork road between the hours 9am and 5pm. Gardai are advising that the volume of traffic may be heavy particularly around the Service area located at Cassidy’s Quarry between Dunfanaghy and
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