With only days before Donegal’s first competitive match in the Dr McKenna Cup this Sunday, comments made by Kevin Cassidy on TG4 have opened a small ray of light, which could potentially lead to a new marriage bertween himself and the Donegal team. However, while Cassy has said “never say never” about a possible return, the opinion [...]
Ulster GAA Fixtures Sunday 8th January Power NI Dr McKenna Cup Round 1 (All games at 2.00pm) Section A Tyrone v QUB atHealyPark Ref:N Mooney(Cavan) Fermanagh v Antrim at Brewster Park Ref: S McLaughlin (Donegal) Section B Monaghan v St Marys at St Tiernachs Park Ref: C O’Hagan (Tyrone) Down vArmaghat Pairc [...]
Donegal Champions Glenswilly went down by a single point in the Ulster Senior Club championship quarter finals to Latton of Monaghan on a score of 1-10 to 0-9 on Sunday afternoon. The club results from the weekend were: Busanna Feda O Donaill Jun BFC: St Eunans 1-7, Naomh Ultan 2-7 Final; McGlynns Resturant Castlefin Division [...]
By Michael McHUGH It has been fascinating to note the varying and divergent opinions of former GAA players and managers in recent days over the now infamous ‘Cassgate’ affair, which as a one time Kerry bishop remarked of the great Irish union leader Jim Larkin – ‘arrived with the devastating roar of a volcano, without [...]
Ireland have followed in the footsteps of their rugby players by taking the laurels in the first International Rules Test in Melbourne. They won on a score of 80 points to 39. The game is a compromise set of rules between Gaelic football in the northern hemisphere and Australian Rules football in the southern hemisphere. [...]
For the second year in a row, Sligo native Stephen Kilfeather (24) has taken the title of Irish Open Surfing Champion. In a hotly contested competition which concluded at the County Sligo Open at the weekend, Stephen retained the title narrowly beating fellow Team Ireland members Cain Kilcullen and Ronan Oertzen to top place. The [...]
Donegal GAA manager always had faith in his side, up to the final whistle in last evening’s classic All Ireland quarter final against Kildare and he said that he never thought that they were beaten, a feeling he has had since the beginning of the year. “Since the first game when we were eight points [...]
2011 All Ireland Football quarter Final Donegal 1-12 Kildare 0-14 (after extra time) It was one of the greatest ever Donegal victory’s in Croke Park and came after Kildare looked to have their place booked in the 2011 GAA All Ireland football semi final. It had all the hallmarks of an epic, a [...]
The onset of this year’s All-Ireland series will be accompanied by an expanded programme of match day entertainment from this weekend until the end of the GAA Football Championship in September. In addition to the use of bands and Scór acts around our games, a number of other initiatives have been organised with the intention [...]
Kilybegs man Seamus Coleman is expecting his second full campaign in the Premier League to be tougher than his first. But the Republic of Ireland international says he will do his utmost to avoid the dreaded ‘second season syndrome.’ Coleman was a revelation on the right hand side of midfield for the Blues [...]
The fixtures for the 2011 GAA All Ireland Football quarter finals have just been announced on RTE. All the final eight teams are now known with the exception of the winners of the Tyrone v Roscommon Round 4 game, which will be held next weekend. Along with Donegal, Tyrone are now the only Ulster teams with any [...]
Donegal’s All Ireland Football Quarter-Final opponents will be known tomorrow. The quarter final draw will be broadcast on RTE after the Galway v Waterford match on Sunday, July 24 and posted on gaa.ie thereafter. AIl Football Quarter Finals Two Bowls Bowl 1 – 4 Provincial Winners Dublin Kerry Mayo Donegal Bowl 2 – 4 Round [...]
Michael McHUGH reports from Clones Cluiche Ceannais Peile Uladh Donegal 1-11 (0-5 HT)Derry 0-8 (0-5 HT) Donegal claimed their 6th Ulster senior title in Clones yesterday with a excellent display against Derry, gaining revenge for their defeats to the same county in 1993 and 1998. The sides went in at half time on [...]
By Michael McHUGH Sunday’s Ulster senior final between Donegal and Derry will be the 20th Championship clash between the sides with the Oak Leaf men ahead on victories 11-8, although that should count for nothing come 4pm in Clones. It will be the first time that they have met in the final since 1998 [...]
Finn Harps v Cork City Airtricity League of Ireland, First Division Finn Park, Saturday 2nd July 2011 – Kick-off 6.00pm Having picked up nine points from their last four games, it is a confident Finn Harps who will line-up against Cork City at Finn Park on Saturday evening. Kick-off is at the earlier than [...]
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