Donegal will face Cavan and Tyrone will take on Derry in the semi finals of the Ulster U20 Championship. Cavan and Tyrone both progressed to the last four on Wednesday evening and with Donegal already having played Tyrone, it meant the Breffni County will be their opposition next Wednesday evening the 23rd in Ballybofey. Cian […]
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The Donegal hurlers make the trip to Owenbeg on Saturday to take on Derry in their opening Christy Ring Cup fixture. Donegal stepped up a championship level for 2025 having won the Nicky Rackard Cup last June. Derry were comfortable winners in their recent league meeting, but Donegal manager Mickey McCann knows that if they
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This week on The Score, Oisin Kelly is joined by Declan Boyle to look ahead to this week’s fixtures for Finn Harps and Derry City. Donegal Hurling Manager Mickey McCann previews their Christy Ring Cup championship opener away to Derry and Alec McDonald takes a look at the closing stages of the local rugby
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The North West 10k Committee has unveiled the new t-shirt for the charity run and walk which takes place on Monday, 5th of May in Letterkenny. The launch of the orange coloured t-shirt took place in the Mount Errigal Hotel. Multiple Sclerosis Donegal Branch and Donegal Horizons CLG will be the beneficiaries from an event
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Galway United forward Emma Doherty has been named the SSE Airtricity Women’s Premier Division Player of the Month for March 2025. The Donegal native scored three goals in as many games following a double against DLR Waves and the winning strike at home to Shamrock Rovers. Doherty previously won this award in June/July 2022 after
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Four players from Donegal have been named on the Danske Bank Ulster Schools All Stars. Abbey Vocational School who reached the MacRory Cup Final, have captain Turlough Carr and forward Conor McCahill named along with Pobailscoil Ghaoth Dobhair’s Pádraig Mac Giolla Bhríde and Cathal Ó Gallóchóir. Surprisingly, MacRory Cup winners, St Pat’s, Maghera have just
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Daire Ó Baoill has been voted GAA.ie Footballer of the Week. The Donegal star received 3,694 votes on the GAA’s Official Instagram page which put him ahead of Cork’s Brian O’Driscoll and Tipperary’s Steven O’Brien. Daire Ó Baoill was outstanding in Donegal’s impressive Ulster SFC win over Derry at Páirc Seán MacCumhaill ON Sunday .
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The Republic of Ireland recorded a second successive win over Greece in the Nations League on Tuesday night and the Donegal players were heavily involved. Tyler Toland started once again in midfield while Anna Patten’s goal added to a first-half penalty from Amber Barrett gave the the Girls in Green a 2-1 win at the
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Fanad United will be in Dublin for their first round tie of the FAI Senior Cup. The Donegal Junior League side have been drawn away to Dublin outfit Leicester Celtic who play their home games in Rathfarnham. It’s Fanad’s first appearance in the cup since 2011 and is a first ever appearance at senior level
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On this weeks DL Debate Brendan Devenney reflects on Donegal’s win over Derry with Chrissie McKeague and Kevin Cassidy. After Donegal’s blistering start to their under-20 campaign with four wins from four, Brendan also spoke with boss Gary Boyle. The DL Debate in association with Sara’s Kitchen at Sister Sara’s Letterkenny:
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Daire O’Baoill has been nominated for the GAA’s Footballer of the Week. The Gaoth Dobhair man was outstanding in Donegal’s impressive Ulster SFC win over Derry at Páirc Seán MacCumhaill. He drilled over a couple of brilliant two pointers and also added a vital goal towards the end of the first half. Tipperary’s Steven O’Brien
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This week on The Score, There’s Kevin McHugh’s appointment as Finn Harps Manager and League of Ireland football chat with Keith Cowan. We get the thoughts of 2012 All Ireland winner Eamon McGee ahead of the Ulster Championship meeting of Donegal and Derry and there’ll be a recap on the U20 action from involving
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The Ulster championship starts on Sunday for Donegal who host neighbours Derry in the first round in Ballybofey. The game starts at 2pm and it will be live on Highland with Oisin Kelly and Brendan Devenney in association with Highland Motors, Letterkenny. Donegal are heavily tipped to progress to a semi final meeting with Monaghan
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All Ireland and Ulster Champions Tyrone suffered a first defeat of the championship on Wednesday evening in Ballybofey. Donegal took the win 3-16 to 0-17 and booked a semi final place as group winners while Tyrone who still have one game to play will continue the defence of their titles through the quarter final route.
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Derry remained on course for a semi final spot in the Ulster U20 Championship by beating Monaghan 3-21 to 1-10 in Owenbeg on Wednesday evening.. Johnny McGuckian Finn McEldowney and Jude Bryson got the goals. Derry Captain is Ruairi Forbes indicated to Michael McMullan of Gaelic Life that the strong panel has them in a
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Donegal are the first team through to the Ulster under-20 football semi-finals. They beat Tyrone by 3-16 to 17 points in Group A on Wednesday evening in Ballybofey. Mark McDevitt, Conor McCahill and Dylan Mulholland scored the Donegal goals, McCahill finished the night with 1-4 while Seanan Carr and Shane Callaghan hit 0-4 apiece. Speaking
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Finn Harps have confirmed Kevin McHugh as the clubs new first team manager. The club have moved quickly to replace Darren Murphy who left last week to take charge at Loughgall in the Irish League. McHugh had been part of the first team coaching staff since September 2023. The Killea man first arrived at Finn
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The Republic of Ireland senior women’s squad are preparing for Friday’s Nations League clash with Greece. The Girls in Green are away for the first game in this international window and will have the same opposition next Tuesday in Dublin. Donegal’s Amber Barrett is part of the squad for the double header. The Milford
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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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