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The Ireland Boxing squad depart for the European Elite Men’s Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria today. The team is being led by Donegal’s Peter O’Donnell. The Raphoe man has taken senior sides to tournaments before but never to a major championship. Peter had a team in Finland earlier this year where Ireland came back with six […]

  Celtic hope to reach the final qualifying round of the Champions League tonight. They take a 1-nil lead to Azerbaijan to play Qarabag. The pitch in Baku has apparently been badly damaged by soaring temperatures. Assistant manager John Collins says if the surface is bad, they’ll find a way to combat it…

Mayo have named an unchanged team for Saturday’s All Ireland quarter-final showdown against Donegal. Joint managers Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes have opted to stick with the same fifteen players that started the Connacht final win over Sligo as they prepare to face this year’s beaten Ulster finalists. It means that Donal Vaughan has once-again

Sligo Rovers have announced the appointment of Micky Adams as their new manager. The former Southampton and Leeds player has been appointed to take-charge immediately, with Alan Rogers joining the club as his assistant manager. Adams has a long managerial record, including stints at Brighton, Leicester City, Coventry and Port Vale. His most recent spell

Athletics’ world governing body has strongly rejected allegations of widespread doping in the sport. The IAAF says a report in last weekend’s Sunday Times are “sensationalist and confusing”. It’s condemned the distribution and publication of medical data that was obtained from the organisation without consent. The association says the results referred to were not positive

Donegal’s Special Olympic hero’s will return back to Letterkenny this evening. Letterkenny’s Patrick Quinlivan and Buncrana’s Oliver Doherty are expected at the Market Square at around 5pm. Patrick won a total of seven medals in Gymnastics while Oliver Doherty took Silver in Golf. Tyrone’s Nuala Brown who won two silver medals in Kayaking will arrive

Donegal athletes Patrick Quinlivan and Oliver Doherty, plus the rest of the Irish Special Olympics team arrived back home this morning following their success in Los Angeles. Letterkenny man Quinlivan won one silver and three bronze competing in gymnastics. Oliver Doherty from Buncrana won silver in the individual golf 18 hole competition last Friday. It

Michael Faulk has been named as Jason Quigley’s opponent for the Donegal man’s eight professional fight this Saturday in California. Faulk, a 30 year old from Minnesota has won three of his five fights in the pro ranks but it’s been two and half years since his last contest. Quigley will enter the ring at

For the fifth year in a row Donegal will contest an All Ireland Quarter Final. Next Saturday Rory Gallagher’s side will play Connacht champions Mayo in the last eight at Croke Park. In 2012, Donegal beat Mayo to take the All Ireland title while the following summer the holders of Sam where dethroned in the

The Ulster Boxing Congress was held in Buncrana this weekend. As well as the election of officers, there were discussions about various competitions for the year ahead. The President of the Donegal Boxing Board Peter O’Donnell says that these are exciting times for Irish boxing. And boxers like Jason Quigley and Katie Taylor are a

Donegal’s Patrick Quinlivan won four medals at the World Special Olympics Games in Los Angeles. He was competing in gymnastics. The Letterkenny man won a silver medal in vault, three Bronze medals (Horizontal Bar, Rings and Parallel Bars) as well as Three Fourth Place Ribbons in the Male Rings, Male Parallel Bars, Male Vault and

Donegal boss Rory Gallagher was delighted that his side had come good in the second half to beat Galway 3-12 to 0-11 in their Round 4B qualifier at Croke Park. He stressed that it was all about “getting over the line” and said that once again Donegal had to lift their game having made a

Kerry demolished Kildare in an embarrassingly one-side first All Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final at Croke Park. The Kingdom won by 7-16 to 0-10 – a winning margin of 27 points! Kerry led 0-10 to 0-3 at the break, but then went into overdrive in the second half during which they scored all seven goals.

The Riverine 10k is a cross-border event that takes place next Sunday, August 9th. The course is largely flat which should allow for some very competitive times. Entry fee is €15 with a free specially designed quality tech t-shirt for the first 300 entrants. The race starts in Lifford but a large portion of the

Five time all-star Sean Cavanagh is delighted that Tyrone have once again reach the last eight of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championships. Saturday’s victory over Sligo by 0-21 to 0-14 was perhaps easier than they would want at this stage. And he knows that Monaghan in the quarter-finals will be a much tougher test. He

Chris McGuinness of Foyle Valley won the 11th annual Danny McDaid 15k in a great time of 51 minutes, 52 seconds, ahead of Adam Speer of Finn Valley in 53.28. Natasha Adams of Letterkenny AC was not only first woman home but she was third overall  in 53.33. There was a great turnout with 220

Donegal captain Michael Murphy was full of praise for his team-mates after they saw off the Galway challenge to earn their place in the quarter-finals of the All Ireland Senior Football Championship. The Tribesmen tested Donegal in the first half and the sides were level at the break. But Donegal were much improved in the

Tyrone are through to the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland SFC Championships following a comfortable 0-21 to 0-14 victory over Sligo in the Round 4B curtain-raising qualifier at Croke Park. Sligo began well enough but Tyrone were in command at the break and led by 0-12 to 0-6 with Darren McCurry particularly prominent – he scored

This year’s North West Senior Cup Final between Donemana and Eglinton has been rescheduled for August 8th and August 9th. Rain disrupted play on Friday and today it was a late start before the rain came down again, leaving officials with no option but to abandon play.

Finn Valley athlete James Kelly has set a new Celtic Games record by throwing 17.68m to win the shot putt competition today. He actually broke the previous record of 17.56m which was held by his brother John Kelly. Meanwhile, Janine Boyle of Finn Valley AC was third in the 100 metres in a time of

Donegal’s Aaron McGlynn finished seventh in the 800 metres final at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Georgia. The young Glenfin athlete clock a time of two minutes and eight seconds in the final. He may have been slightly disappointed with the time but it was nevertheless a great experience for him.

Derry’s minor footballers are through to the All-Ireland Minor Football Championships after a memorable 0-12 to 2-4 win over Longford at Brewster Park in Enniskillen. In difficult conditions, Longford raced into a 2-2 to 0-4 lead at the break, inspired by Conor Berry. But Derry, who beat Donegal in the Ulster MFC Final, stormed back

Derry City got a morale boosting win with a 3-0 success over Longford Town at the Brandywell. City produced their best first half performance in months as they led 2-0 at the interval thanks to a Pat O’Sullivan own goal goal on nine minutes and a Mark Timlin shot on 20 minutes. Peter Hutton’s men

Finn Harps remain top of the First Division despite being held to a scoreless draw at Finn Park. Finn Harps had the edge in the first half with Damien McNulty and Josh Mailey having chances before the latter got a straight red card on the half-hour mark for a challenge on Derek Doyle. In a

The All Ireland Championship continues this weekend with the first of the Quarter Finals on Sunday involving Dublin, Fermanagh, Kerry and Kildare while later today Sligo, Tyrone, Galway and Donegal will battle for the two remaining last eight places. Donegal have to overcome Galway at Croke Park to reach a Quarter Final next Saturday 8th