COUNTDOWN IS ON TO WATERSIDE HALF MARATHON
Foyle Valley AC’s Keith Shiels celebrates winning last year’s Waterside Half Marathon. The big countdown is on to the city’s Waterside Half Marathon, which takes place on Sunday, 14 September. All you...
View ArticleGREYHOUND RACING: TONIGHT’S BRANDYWELL CARD
Tonight’s greyhound racing at Brandywell Stadium features heats in the Thursday Sprint and Southway 500. There are seven races on the card and the runners are (first race 8.00pm): Race 1 Thursday...
View ArticleSUMMER FOOTBALL: QUIGLEY/MCDOWELL SEMI-FINALS TONIGHT
Tony’s Bhoys keeper Patrick Quigley closes down a Top of the Hill chance in their quarter-final clash. The semi-finals of the Tony Quigley/Shakes McDowell Memorial Cup will take place tonight at the...
View ArticleFORMER DERRY BOSS FENLON TAKES OVER AT SHAMROCK ROVERS
Pat Fenlon, new manager of Shamrock Rovers. Former Derry City boss Pat Fenlon has been appointed the new manager of Shamrock Rovers with his first match in charge against his old club tomorrow night....
View ArticleROGAN QUITS AS DERRY SENIOR HURLING MANAGER
Ger Rogan: stepped down as Derry senior hurling manager. Ger Rogan has stepped down as Derry senior hurling manager. The 41-year-old took over the post from James O’Kane in 1911. During his term as...
View ArticleHURLING BOSS DEPARTURE: DERRY CHAIRPERSON PAYS TRIBUTE TO ROGAN
Ger Rogan: stepped down as Derry senior hurling manager. The Derry GAA county chairperson has paid tribute to Ger Rogan who has quit as the Oakleaf county’s senior hurling manager after four years in...
View ArticleRACE-FIXING DERRY JOCKEY HAS BRITISH BAN LIFTED
Derry-born rider Fergal Lynch has been granted permission to ride in Britain again after the British Horseracing Authority consented to lift his ban on an initial one-year basis. Lynch, who is now 36...
View ArticleGREYHOUND RACING: BRANDYWELL RESULTS
Results from last night’s greyhound racing at Brandywell Stadium in Derry were: Race 1 Thursday Sprint heat one (300 yards): 1, Forward Fun 1/1 fav; 2, Sticky Jeb 5/2. Time: 17.06. Distance: 6 lengths....
View ArticleCAR STOLEN IN CREEPER BURGLARY
Detectives in Derry are appealing for information following a creeper burglary that occurred in the Steelstownl area of the city in which a car was stolen. Sometime before 5.00am on Friday, 27 June, a...
View ArticleGOLF NEWS: LOVE CONQUERS ALL AT PREHEN
Christopher Love (12) took the honours in the weekly Thursday Open at City of Derry Golf Club with a well compiled 41 points, a first nine of 23 points giving him a great start to his winning...
View ArticleAIRTRICITY PREMIERSHIP: CITY LOSE TO ROVERS
Derry City manager Peter Hutton. Derry’s winning streak in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division came to an end with a two-nil defeat against Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght last night. In a first half of...
View ArticleATHLETICS: MCPEAKE ON TOP IN BALLINDERRY 10K
Chris McPeake: impressive win. Derry athlete Chris McPeake made a successful return after a lengthy absence from competitive athletics to win today’s Ballinderry 10k. The City of Derry AC runner put in...
View ArticleGREYHOUND RACING: TONIGHT’S LIFFORD CARD
Three first round NWGOBA heats feature on tonight’s greyhound racing at Lifford. There are 12 races on the card and runners are (first race 8.00pm): Race 1 (350 yards): 1, Augustine Hotdog; 2, Glenside...
View ArticleO’FLYNN BRACE EARNS INSTITUTE A DRAW AGAINST DUNGANNON SWIFTS
Stephen O’Flynn: earned Institute point. Dungannon Swifts 2 Institute 2 Two goals from Stephen O’Flynn earned Institute a deserved draw against Dungannon Swifts in their opening Danske Bank Premiership...
View ArticleDERRY ATHLETES DOMINATE RIVERINE 10K IN LIFFORD
City of Derry’s Declan Reed. Derry athletes claimed all three podium places at the annual Riverine 10K Road Race in Lifford, Co Donegal with City of Derry AC’s Declan Reed taking the number one spot....
View ArticleGOLF NEWS: BROWN WINS PRESIDENT’S PRIZE AT CITY OF DERRY
City of Derry President John Hasson and his wife Siobhan with Gary Brown winner of the President’s Prize at Prehen. Gary Brown (11) took home John Hasson’s President’s Prize at Prehen on Saturday with...
View ArticleATHLETICS NEWS: BOGLE WINS CUSHENDALL MOUNTAIN RACE
City of Derry Spartan Alan Bogle. City of Derry Spartan Alan Bogle put in an impressive performance to win the Lurig Challenge mountain race staged in Cushendall, Co Antrim, at the weekend. The race,...
View ArticleSWIFTS DRAW PLEASES INSTITUTE BOSS KEE
Institute’s Stephen O’Flynn celebrates scoring against Dungannon Swifts on Saturday. Institute manager Paul Kee was “pleased” with his side’s performance in drawing with Dungannon Swifts in their...
View ArticleMCBRIDE “ONE TO WATCH”– EX-LINFIELD BOSS DAVID JEFFREY
Thomas McBride. Former Linfield manager David Jeffrey may be rethinking his initial prediction for Institute this season, having made the claim early on that the Derry side were his favourites to get...
View ArticleCAGE FOOTBALL IN GUILDHALL SQUARE
A “cage football” event will be held in Guildhall Square in Derry tomorrow afternoon. Organised by the PSNI, the event is designed to educate and raise awareness among young people of suitable places...
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