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Martin O’Neill has injury concerns ahead of the upcoming Euro qualifiers with Gibraltar and Germany. Everton manager Roberto Martinez says that neither James McCarthy nor Seamus Coleman would be fit for either game. Coleman is still recovering from concussion and soft tissue problems. Aston Villa keeper Shay Given is also out. The Lifford stopper is struggling

Derry City and Shamrock Rovers will meet in the FAI Senior Cup replay on Tuesday night. Rory Patterson’s late equaliser for Derry means the Candystripes and the hoops must do it all again . The second of today’s semi finals finished one apiece at Tallaght. Dean Kelly opened the scoring there with just 12 minutes

St. Pat’s dumped Finn Harps out of the FAI Senior Cup  today in Dublin. Killian Brennan and Conan Byrne each got a brace in a 6-1 thrashing at Richmond Park. As if Harps’ day wasn’t bad enough they also had Gareth Harkin and Ollie Horgan sent off late-on. After the game Diarmaid Doherty got the

Declan Gallagher and Ryan Moore won the Modified crown in the Irish Tarmac Championship on Sunday. The Donegal crew won the National category of the weekend’s Cork 20 rally to secure the title. Declan and Ryan’s Toyota Starlet had an incident free run coming home over three minutes ahead of the rest of the two

GROUP1 St Eunan’s 1-21 V 1-5 N Muire Noamh Conaill 0-10 V 0-7 Malin St Eunan’s and Noamh Conaill qualify for Quarter Finals GROUP2 Ardara 0-13 V 1-9 Glenfin MacCumhaills 0-9 v 2-14 Four Master Ardara and Four Masters top the group GROUP3 Gweedore 1-8 V 0-8 Dungloe Termon 0-8 v 1-5 Killybegs Gweedore have

Finn Harps bowed out of the FAI Cup semi final at Rickmond Park this afternoon losing 6-1 to St Patrick’s Athletic. Killian Brennan gave St Pats the lead in the 20th minute from a well executed free kick. Just before the half hour Packie Mailey levelled the game with a strong header at the far

The Ulster Senior League have retained the FAI Intermediate Inter League Cup. Donal O’Briens’s side lost their final game 3-0 on Sunday morning to Munster but with two wins under their belt from earlier in the weekend they had done enough to keep the trophy they won last year. They beat Connacht on Friday night

Kris Meeke has taken his fourth podium of the World Rally Championship. Driving a Citroen DS3, The County Tyrone driver along with his co driver Paul Nagle finished 3rd, 1min 05.3secs down on the winner Jari-Matti Latvala in a Polo. The second car home was the Volkswagon of Andreas Mikkelsen, 20sec ahead on Meeke.

Roberto Martinez has ruled James McCarthy out of Ireland’s upcoming Euro qualifier with Germany. The Everton midfielder isn’t included in the 27-man squad for Saturday’s game with Gibraltar, and it had been hoped he’d recover for the trip to Gelsenkirchen. But speaking before today’s 2-1 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford, Martinez says McCarthy

The Donegal Senior Football Championship continues this weekend. On Saturday evening, Naomh Conaill play Malin, MacCumhaills take on Four Masters, Termon play Killybegs and Bundoran face Glenswilly. On Sunday afternoon, St. Eunan’s play Naomh Mhuire, Ardara take on Glenfin, Gweedore face Dungloe, and Kilcar host St. Michaels. Tom Comack previewed the games with former Ardara

The countdown to the FAI Senior Cup semi finals for Finn Harps and Derry City is very much on with the north west sides heading to Dublin for their last four encounters.  On Sunday Harps play St Patricks Athletic at Inichicore while Derry go to Tallaght to take on Shamrock Rovers. Former Sligo Rovers manager Sean

Ulster bounced back from the defeat in Italy last weekend to comfortably beat Edinburgh 30- 0 at Ravenhill on Friday night. The bonus point victory was secured thanks to two tries from Andrew Trimble and further scores by Nick Williams and Rory Best. Paddy Jackson kicked eight points and Stuart Olding added a conversion. Ulster

County Tyrone’s Kris Meeke is third after the opening six stages of this weekends WRC event, Rally France. Meeke who is once again the fastest of the Citroen DS3 cars is 23.5 seconds behind the Volkwagon of Jari Matti Latvala. The Swedish drivers team mate, Andres Mikkelsen is second 15 seconds ahead of  Meeke. Having

Derry city are just 90 minutes away from a 9th appearance in the FAI Senior Cup Final. The Candystrips play Shamrock Rovers in the semi final this Sunday in Dublin. Derry who last won the cup in 2012 go to the Tallagh stadium with doubts over Goalkeeper Gerard Doherty, Aaron Barry, Barry Molloy and Stephen

Essendon Football Club in Australia have announced that Conor McKenna will join the Bombers as a rookie. The Tyrone minor star has accepted a two-year contract with the AFL club. The 18 year old qualifies as a Rookie B as he has not been registered in an Australian football competition for the past three years.

The GAA have released statistics regarding the use of the black card system, among the highlights are – The 2014 Football Championships have set a record for the number of scores recorded in a single season. – With the introduction of the black card, the average number of points per game in the 2014 championship

For the fourth time in this years campaign, Finn Harps will be away from home in the FAI Senior Cup. On Sunday the Donegal side take on reigning League Champions St. Patrick’s Athletic at Richmond Park in the semi final of the competition. The gap between the two sides couldn’t be greater. Since the two

Jared Payne will start at outside centre for Ulster in Friday’s Pro12  game against Edinburgh. Payne’s inclusion is one of ten changes from the team which lost in Italy to Zebre last weekend. Darren Cave makes way for the return of the fly-half who has been out of action since picking up a hip injury