Archive for April 2010

Sligo class shows as they win NFL Div 3 title

April 24, 2010 Sligo News & Sport No comments

Sligo promoted to Division 2 and win Division 3 title

National Football League Division Three Final

Sligo 0-19

Antrim 1-11 

@Croke Park, Dublin

It has been a meteoric rise for the Sligo GAA team and its followers over the past couple of years in the GAA National Football league (NFL).

Last year they were plunged into Division Four, but but by the end of that campaign they won the Division Four title and were promoted.

In the final they defeated Antrim.  Remarkably, it was Saffrons again that they met today in the Division 3 final in Croke Park and again the Yeats men emerged victorious. Read more

Finn harps lose to Waterford

April 24, 2010 Irish News & Sport No comments
Finn Harps got little joy on their trip down south when First Division leaders Waterford United got back to winning ways thanks to George o’Callaghan’s dead ball deliveries.Topscorer Vinny Sullivan put Blues in front on 21 minutes. Recent signing O’Callaghan, on his first start, whipped a free-kick into the box which wasn’t dealt with. Read more

Sligo IT at the heart of new technology development

April 24, 2010 Irish News & Sport, Sligo News & Sport One comment

A new medical breakthrough could soon see could see ultrasound images taken in Africa being read by a consultant radiologist or cardiologist in Ireland.

The project is being developed in the Institute of Technology, Sligo with the Irish charity Neri Clinics, which funds a primary care centre in the Linda Township in Lusaka, Zambia. Read more

Former Donegal Garda Commissioner dies

April 24, 2010 Donegal News & Sport, Irish News & Sport No comments

Former Donegal Garda Commissioner dies

The Garda Commissioner, Fachtna Murphy, has expressed his sadness at the death of former Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, Eamonn Doherty, who was a native of Donegal.

A former Donegal Person of the Year Mr. Doherty passed away early this morning following a long illness and the Commissioner extended his sympathies to his wife, Patricia, daughters Deirdre, Patricia and Fionnuala, sons Colm and Eamonn and his extended family including siblings, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. Read more