By Michael McMullan SEAMUS Shivers and Greg McArdle will return for a third year as joint managers of the Derry senior ladies team. They will again have Martina McCaffrey as part of their management team. The rest of the management team is yet to finalised. Derry had improved performances during last season’s league campaign in […]
By Michael McMullan GLENULLIN manager Michael O’Kane says Sunday’s opponents Sleacht Néill are the level his side need to get to in the long-term. The sides look horns on Sunday evening at Find Insurance Owenbeg with a place in the Derry Senior Championship quarter-finals up for grabs. Not only is it a derby game, but […]
By Michael McMullan CORMAC O’Doherty hailed Sleacht Néill’s ability to hang tough after winning a 14th successive Derry Senior Hurling Championship title. Despite playing with 14 men after Brendan Rogers was sent off with half-time approaching, the reigning Ulster champions held most of the aces. They were never behind and pushed six points ahead in […]
By Michael McMullan SLEACHT Néill put their Derry and Ulster titles on the line against Kevin Lynch’s in Sunday’s Derry Senior Hurling Championship Final in Find Insurance Owenbeg. The champions have had their hands on the Fr Collins Cup since they made the breakthrough in 2013. Sunday’s challengers were last champions two years before that. […]
By Michael McMullan BELLAGHY and Dungiven will meet again in Round Three of the Derry SFC after Wednesday night’s draw. Two late goals from substitute Feargal Higgins clinched Dungiven’s 2-14 to 1-13 win over Ballinascreen. There was high drama in Find Insurance Owenbeg as Ballinderry booked their quarter-final spot. Tiernan Rocks held his nerve to […]
10 YEARS AGO AFTER years of coming up short against Kilkenny, Tipperary finally got their revenge, producing a sensational second-half display at Croke Park to reclaim the Liam MacCarthy Cup. Tipp outscored Brian Cody’s side 2-15 to 2-08 after the break, with goals from John ‘Bubbles’ O’Dwyer and John McGrath, while Seamus Callanan hit an […]
By Michael McMullan GLEN captain Ciaran McFaul is aware of the improvement needed ahead of Sunday’s Round 2A clash with Bellaghy. The Watties were 14 points up at a stage last weekend before Banagher doubled their goals tally en route to a 2-20 to 4-7 victory for Glen. Alex Doherty and Emmett Bradley led the scoring […]
THE Derry Senior and Intermediate football Championships begin this weekend. Newbridge open their title defence against Kilrea with the tie of the round seeing last year’s beaten finalists Magherafelt lock horns with Sleacht Néill. Here is a glance at the games…. DERRY SENIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 1 Lavey v Faughanvale Thursday, Find Insurance Owenbeg, 7.30pm […]
By Michael McMullan REIGNING champions Newbridge are ‘itching to get going’ in the Derry Senior Football Championship, which kicks into gear this weekend. That’s the view of joint-manager Gary Hetherington ahead of Friday’s clash with Kilrea. The holders retained the John McLaughlin Cup last year having come through the backdoor after being shocked by Dungiven in the […]
By Michael McMullan MAGHERAFELT and Sleacht Néill face off in the headline game in this weekend’s Derry Senior Football Championship. It’s the last of eight first round ties set for Find Insurance Owenbeg with Derry CCC retaining the ‘back door’ format they reintroduced last season. Sleacht Néill won the league title under manager Austin O’Malley but […]
