GAA expert Kieran Cunningham believes Donegal may not have lost against Dublin if it was not for captain Michael Murphy’s sending off. He said Donegal gave a good account of themselves up until Michael was given a second yellow card and pointed out that Donegal were only one point behind the Dubs at that time. […]
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National Football League, Division 2 result: Derry 2-12 v 2-12 Meath The scores flowed at the start of the game in Owenbeg, with Derry leading 0-06 to 1-02 after 15 minutes. That’s how it remained until the 24th minute when Meath’s Michael Newman hit a free. His score, which squared the match at 0-06 versus
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Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has claimed that his players should have won a very tough game against Armagh on Saturday. He praised both teams for their efforts amid horrible weather conditions in Omagh as Tyrone and Armagh fought out a draw. It ended Tyrone 0-13 versus Armagh 1-10 at Healy Park. Mickey said it would
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Inishowen Football League results – Sunday, March 27, 2016 Premier Division Buncrana 4 v 3 Moville Greencastle 0 v 0 Aileach QPS 0 v 1 Clonmany Fr O’Gara Cup quarter-finals Rasheney 0 v 1 Carn Dunree 4 v 2 Gleneely Clt Clonmany Res 2 v 3 Sea Rovers (AET) Reserve Premier Division Cockhill Clt 2
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Donegal Junior League results – Sunday, March 27, 2016 Brian Mc Cormick Sports Premier Division Gweedore Celtic 3 v 3 Cappry Rovers Milford United 2 v 0 Castlefin Celtic St. Catherines 1 v 3 Glenea United (played Friday) Drumoghill FC OFF Kildrum Tigers Kilmacrennan Celtic 2 v 2 Rathmullan Celtic Temple Domestic Appliances Division
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Donegal News League Cup Senior semi-final results – Sunday, March 27, 2016 Bonagee Utd 1 v 3 Letterkenny Rovers Derry City Res v Cockhill Celtic *Derry City Res did not present; game awarded to Cockhill Celtic. Final to be played May 15. Ulster Junior Cup semi-final results
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Right2Water Donegal has warned of a growing anger among the public in relation to the delay in forming a Government. There have been numerous reports that the deadlock between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil over water charges may push the country towards a second election. However, Right2Water Donegal Spokesperson Charlie McDyer claims Fianna Fail
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We begin a busy day of sport with reaction from last night’s National Football League Division One match at Croke Park between Dublin and Donegal. Manager Rory Gallagher and captain Michael Murphy, who got two yellow cards, spoke to us directly after the disappointing loss. We also hear from Tyrone manager Mickey Harte after Tryone
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Tyrone 0-13 Armagh 1-10 Runaway leaders Tyrone were halted as they had to settle for a draw against a battling, relegation threatened Armagh team under the Healy Park floodlights in Omagh. Three points each from Ronan O’Neill and Connor McAliskey paved the way for Mickey Harte’s side to a 0-08 to 0-06 advantage at the break, with Stefan Campbell
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Finn Harps beat Longford Town 1-0 in this entertaining Premier Division game at Finn Park. Longford had the better of the early exchanges with Philip Gannon shooting just over the target while Richard Brush was forced to make a decent save to deny Josh O’Hanlon. Harps’ best chances before the break fell to David Scully and
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High-flying Dublin made it six wins in a row in this season’s Allianz National Football League Division One as they beat Donegal 1-10 to 0-7 in this Easter Saturday clash at Croke Park. Donegal did well in the first half but the Dubs were much the better late on. At the break Dublin led Donegal
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A 9oth minute goal from Rory Patterson earned Derry City maximum points as they beat Wexford Youths 2-1 at Ferrycarraig Park. After a scoreless first half, Conor McCormack put the Candystripes ahead on 69 minutes. But last season’s First Division champions drew level through their highly rated striker Danny Furlong on 83 minutes. The home
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Donegal travel to Dublin for this evening’s Division One match against All-Ireland champions Dublin in Croke Park in the National Football League. Donegal manager Rory Gallagher looks ahead to tonight’s clash with Tom Comack..
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Finn Harps manager Ollie Horgan believes tonight’s game at Longford Town means there is no let-up for his players. Harps began their campaign with tough matches against Derry City, Dundalk, Shamrock Rovers, and Sligo Rovers. Ollie said on Saturday Sport that the Longford game is just as tricky, especially as Longford have won the last
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Donegal boxer Jason Quigley revealed on Highland Radio that there is a very high possibility that he could fight on the undercard of one of the world’s biggest fights. Jason was speaking on Saturday Sport after beating Mexican fighter Freddy Lopez in California on Friday and confidently predicted that 2016 is going to be a
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Four players from the North West finished Ireland’s win over Switzerland on Friday night and it was Donegal’s Seamus Coleman who captained the side to victory. The Boys In Green beat the Swiss in Dublin thanks to a very early headed goal from defender Ciaran Clarke, whose late grandmother was from Milford and he still
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Glenswilly goalkeeper Philip O’Donnell has been honoured as the only Donegal club footballer to be named on the Sigersons Cup XV. Former Donegal champion Philip, who won the Donegal SFC with Gelnswilly in 2011 and 2013, togged out for DCU in this year’s Sigerson Cup. O’Donnell had a stellar campaign between the posts and kept
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Donegal Junior Football League Results Saturday 26th March 2016 Glencar Inn Saturday Reserve Division Keadue Rovers Reserves 3 v 0 Cappry Rovers St Catherines Reserves
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The Donegal Boxing Board has praised the 10th straight victory of Jason Quigley and said the local fighter is inspiring the county. Jason, from Ballybofey, won another knockout on Friday by beating Mexican Freddy Lopez in a stunning first round knockout. Donegal Boxing Board president Peter O’Donnell, from Raphoe AMC, told Saturday Sport that there
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There was a great turnout for Saturday’s Ballyliffen Coastal Challenge with over 1,000 people completing the course. Johnny Curran from Finn Valley AC won the men’s section, followed by runners Martin Mooney and Noel Diver. The ladies’ section was won by Karen Dolan from Enniskillen. Some 1,100 runners and walkers started at 1pm and there
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Some 29 horses are set to run at the Boylesports Irish Grand National this Easter Monday at Fairyhouse. Denis Kirwan previews the race for Saturday Sport and provides a run down of the 29 runners and riders. He said trainer Gordon Elliott is out to win the race for the first time and has one
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The Donegal U-21s make the short trip to Celtic Park in Derry to take on Tyrone in the Ulster U-21 semi-final on Wednesday night. With a place in the final at stake, Donegal Manager Declan Bonner tells Tom Comack of the difficult game that lies ahead.
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Derry take on Meath at Owenbeg in Division Two of the Allianz Football League tomorrow Sunday, with throw in at 3pm. Dermot McPeake, Derry PRO, talks to Tom Comack about Derry’s crunch clash with the Royal County.
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Former Tyrone All- Star defender John Lynch on unbeaten Tyrone’s meeting tonight with arch rivals Armagh, tonight in Healy Park.
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On today’s Saturday Sport show, we look ahead to tonight’s National Football League and Donegal’s Division One game against Dublin in Croke Park. We will have all the live action with our team Oisin Kelly and Brendan Devenney. Tyrone host Armagh in Division 2 at Healy Park in Omagh. Finn Harps manager Ollie Horgan will
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Almost 90,000 euro has been raised in memory of the five people who died in last weekend’s pier tragedy in Buncranna. A justgiving page which initially set a target of 5,000 pounds sterling has received almost 48,000 pounds – or 60,000 euro in donations so far. 9,000 euro was raised in a fundraiser in
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A Donegal County Councillor has praised the decision to fly the Starry Plough flag on council buildings to commemorate the role of the Irish Citizens Army in 1916. The flag will fly for the rest of this year alongside the Tricolour and the Irish Republic flag. Councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig put forward
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Police are appealing for information following an incident that occurred in commercial premises in the Spencer Road area of Derry. The incident happened on the evening of Wednesday 16 March but details are only emerging now. At approximately 7.55pm, police received a report that a man had entered a bar and threatened another man.
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Jason Quigley secured his tenth professional boxing success earlier today with yet another knock-out. The Donegal man beat late replacement Mexican Freddy Lopez in a fight that was stopped after just two minutes of the first round in the Fantasy Springs Casino in California. Quigley (24) has now won nine of his ten fights with
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Police have charged a 24 year old man with a total of 31 offences, including two counts of attempted murder of police officers. He is expected to appear before Derry Magistrates Court tomorrow morning, . All charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service. The charges are in connection with the arrest of
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At the start of the season, Saturday night’s game would have been one that Finn Harps would have been pinpointing as one where three points could be obtained. Both Harps and Longford go into the game sitting on four points each and Ollie Horgan will be hoping his side can add to that tally when
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tyrone Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has made four changes for Saturday’s Ulster derby clash with relegation-threatened Armagh. The Orchard men desperately need a win to lift them out of the danger zone, but Harte has insisted that they will find no favours at Healy Park, and he has backed that assertion up by naming a
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How does a software engineer from California end up playing the fiddle in Gweedore or an Iranian chef, rescuing birds of prey in Glenties?? How did I End Up Here is a new series focusing on ten individuals and couples from all over the world, who have chosen to make their home in Donegal. Tune
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A 15 Minute Programme presented by Chris Ashmore every Thursday at 7.05pm highlighting all that’s happening in the farming community.
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A 30 year old woman has died following a collision in Newtowncunningham yesterday. The collision happened on the N13 at Castleforward at around 8:30am when two cars collided. The driver of one of the cars, a 30-year-old woman, was taken by ambulance to Letterkenny University Hospital where she passed away a short time ago.
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Talks are underway at Government Buildings where Fine Gael is hoping to build support for a minority government. But of the party’s negotiators Simon Coveney has again said any minority coalition will still need Fianna Fáil’s support. Donegal Deputy Thomas Pringle says he was approached Minister Coveney to partake in today’s talks. He’s been
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The funeral for the five people who died at the weekend in Buncrana is taking place this afternoon and will be buried after the service in Derry. The five hearses drew up side by side at the Holy Family Church. The three white coffins of Mark and Evan McGrotty and Jodi-Lee Daniels led into the
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A barrister has said the forthcoming trial of a Derry man facing charges in connection with his involvement in the Syrian civil war is ‘a show trial.’ Mr. Joe Brolly was speaking at Derry Magistrate’s Court before a preliminary enquiry for Eamon Bradley (27) of 48, Benview Estate, Coshquin in Derry who faces
Athletic Ireland have expressed their delight at the news that Rob Heffernan and Olive Loughnane are to be upgraded to Olympic bronze and World Championship gold medals. That’s after the court of arbitration for sport confirmed that all competitive results obtained by the winners of those races are to be quashed due to doping offenses.
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An Bord Pleanala has rejected a planned windfarm in Donegal, which would have been the largest on shore windfarm in the country. Cork based company Planree Limited had lodged an application the facility at Carrickaduff, which would have seen 49 turbines constructed. Carrickaduff was filed under the state’s strategic infrastructure planning process and was based on
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The GAA Programme is broadcast every Wednesday from 8.30pm – 9pm. Popular and well know Naomh Columba club man Paddy Beag Gillespie is Tom’s special guest on tonight’s programme. Paddy, a recent GAA President’s award winner will recall his lifelong association with the GAA from growing up in Glencolmcille to playing club football with
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Almost 50 percent of motorists say bad habits of other drivers cause road rage, according to a survey commissioned by Continental Tyres. The most annoying habit identified by those surveyed was mobile phone use behind the wheel. The other most annoying habits identified include dangerous or illegal overtaking; driving too slowly, not indicating or bad
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Fishermen could be forced to ermbark on a complicated and expensive legal challenge to a revised penalty points system after Minister Simon Coveney signed a revised Statutory Instrument at the beginning of the month. The document he signed on March 1st replaced a previous version which was deemed unconstitutional by the High Court, but the
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The funerals will take place later today of the five members of the same extended Derry family who tragically lost their lives when their car went off the slipway at Buncrana pier on Sunday last. A funeral service will take place at Holy Family Church, Ballymagroarty for Sean McGrotty and his two young sons Mark and
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Letterkenny cyclist Philip Deignan returns to competitive action in this weeks Coppi e Bartali in Italy. The Team Sky rider has been out since December after breaking his left elbow while training in Majorca. Deignan will compete in five stages over four days with the first of those this morning and then a time trail
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Dale Gorman from Letterkenny has been called up to the Northern Ireland Squad for their next UEFA Under 21 qualifying match. They play Scotland next Tuesday 29th March in Glasgow. The former Letterkenny Rovers man plays his football with Stevenage in English League Two.
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Galway Utd will host Finn Harps in the second round of the EA Sports Cup. The Ballybofey side beat Cockhill Celtic 1-0 on Tuesday night to make the next stage while Galway defeated the Mayo League 3-1 on Monday. In the other pool two game, Derry City will host Sligo Rovers the Brandywell. The games
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John Cleese was horrified to discover what he claims is a “rip-off” of Fawlty Towers. The comedian said he had been unaware of the “astonishing financial success” of the Faulty Towers Dining Experience from Imagination Workshop. In a series of posts on Twitter, Cleese, 76, said the production had been using the classic sitcom’s concept,
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has claimed his late co-star Anne Kirkbride was an alcoholic, according to reports. The 83-year-old said his on-screen wife, who played Deirdre Barlow for 42 years in the ITV soap, had stopped drinking before her death but had been taking anti-depressants. Bill, who has starred as Ken Barlow since Corrie’s
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The N13 Letterkenny to Derry Road has now re-opened following a two car collision near Newtowncunningham shortly after 8.30 this morning. The road was closed for most of today to facilitate a technical examination which concluded a short time ago. A woman remains in a serious condition in Letterkenny University Hospital this evening
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