2012 All Ireland GAA Vocational Schools Semi Final Cork 1-13, Donegal 0-8 Donegal had their chances of a 2nd All Ireland Vocational schools title dashed yesterday afternoon in County Laois against Cork. The Donegal side were much the stronger in the earlier exchanges but a powering second half performance from the Rebel county put paid [...]
Brian McLaughlin has made four personnel and three positional changes for Ulster’s important RaboDirect PRO12 clash with Cardiff on Friday (kick off 7.05pm). Paddy Wallace, Tom Court and Chris Henry have been released from Ireland duty and they go straight into the starting XV along with Nigel Brady, who replaces Andi Kyriacou. Brady, Court and [...]
Former Monaghan GAA star Kieran Finlay, father of current Monaghan star, Paul Finlay will be remembered in the north west for the display he gave in the 1979 GAA Ulster final, when they defeated a fancied Donegal team. He died yesterday after a long illness and was considered one of the fnest footballers of his [...]
The Irish Rugby Football Union has today announced that it has reached agreement with the French Rugby Federation for the refunding of the face value cost of match tickets for the postponed France versus Ireland RBS 6 Nations Championship Match on Saturday, February 11. The process for seeking a refund is as follows:
Tom Court, Chris Henry, Paddy Wallace and Dan Tuohy will all be available for Ulster’s RaboDirect PRO12 trip to Cardiff this Friday. The players will be released from the Ireland squad but fellow Internationals Stephen Ferris, Andrew Trimble and Rory Best remain unavailable for selection. Ulster’s 31 man squad contains a mix of youth and [...]
Connacht Rugby have announced the team that will face Harlequins tomorrow night (The Sportsground, 20.00) The side sees just one change from the team that took on Toulouse in Stade Ernest Wallon last weekend with Ronan Loughney replacing Dylan Rogers at tighthead prop. Loughney was called into the Ireland Wolfhounds squad yesterday along [...]
The Ulster Council of the GAA have copnfirmed that the Dr McKenna Cup fixture this Sunday, between Donegal and UUJ originally scheduled for MacCumhaill Park at Ballybofey, has now been transferred to O’Donnell Park in letterkenny. Throw in time remains at 2pm. See elsewhere on website for full fixture list this weekend. Donegal v UUJ [...]
Connacht Rugby have announced the team that will face Leinster in the Sportsground this New Years Day. Mick Kearney earns his first competitive start for the Province at blindside flanker replacing Dave Gannon who came off with a knee injury on Monday. The 20 year old academy forward, who stands at 6 foot 5 [...]
Ahead of tomorrow’s sold out clash against Munster at Ravenhill, Ulster Coach Brian McLaughlin, as expected, has named an entirely changed starting XV from that which was defeated by Leinster at the RDS on Boxing Day. With two PRO12 derbies within the space of four days, McLaughlin has coached two separate teams for the games [...]
by Sean Langan Dublin’s Lansdowne Road is expected to be full to capacity on Tuesday evening as Ireland play host to Estonia in the 2nd leg play off of the 2012 European Championship finals play-off. A famous 4-0 victory against the Eastern European side in Tallinn on Friday evening had the people of Ireland with [...]
Ulster outhalf Ian Humphreys has been forced to withdraw from the starting team to face the Ospreys tomorrow at the Liberty Stadium after he suffered a recurrence of a shoulder injury picked up against Cardiff last week. As a result, Paddy Jackson is promoted to start in the number 10 jersey and development player James [...]
Sligo Rovers 0 (Ireland) Vorskla Poltava 0 (Ukraine) Sligo Rovers broke new ground last evening when they came out of Ukraine with a scoreless draw against Vorskla Poltava. Not as traumatic as their trip in recent years to Albania, but the north west side are enjoying their globe trotting of recent times. This nicely sets up a [...]
This week’s fixtures Tuesday, July 26 UEFA Under-19 Championships Group A Romania v Republic of Ireland, City Stadium, Berceni (5.00pm Irish). Wednesday, July 27 UEFA Champions League Third Qualifying Round first leg FC Copenhagen v Shamrock Rovers, Parken Stadion (7.00pm Irish) Thursday, July 28 UEFA Europa League Third Qualifying Round first leg FC Karpaty Lviv [...]
5 Donegal surfers have been selected for the Irish Surf team to represent the country when the European Surfing Championships “Eurosurf”, supported by Fáilte Ireland, happen in Bundoran, from September 23rd until October 3rd this year. Ronan Oertzen, 20, Shauna Ward, 24, Darragh McCarter, 25 and Richie Fitzgerald, 36 all from Bundoran and Easkey Britton, [...]
Ulster Senior Football Championship 2011 – Preliminary Round Donegal 1-10 Antrim 0-07 Donegal advanced to the first round proper of the Ulster Football championship this afternoon in MacCumhaill Park, Ballybofey in a game that was far from pretty, but for Donegal it was the result that counted as they now go forward to [...]
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