Community Games National Area, Volunteer And Media Awards 2016
On Saturday 26th November, over 350 Community Games volunteers from all over Ireland attended the National Area, Volunteer and Media Awards in the Salthill Hotel in Galway. MC for the night was Tony O’Donoghue and distinguished guests included former Olympian Olive Loughnane, Minister Sean Canney, Deputy Mayor of Galway Pearce Flannery, County Galway GAA Chairman […]
Rugby League’s All Ireland Grand Final
The McGettigans All Ireland Grand final will take place on Saturday 6th August at the Carlisle ground, Bray. The final will be contested between the best of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with their respective grand final winners the Rabbitohs (NI) and the Galway Tribesmen (ROI) duelling to become the island’s champion team. […]
European Amputee Football Games To Be Held At UL Sports, Limerick
The European Amputee Football Games will be held at UL Sports Limerick (3G Pitches) on 11th June 2016 from 12.3pm to 3pm and is open to all ages. The Irish Amputee Football Teams are an outreach project and provide theraeutic sport. All of the team players have a disability, whether it is an upper or […]
The Irish Times And NDC Launch ‘The Best Sports Club In Ireland’
The Irish Times is on the hunt for the Best Sports Club in Ireland: clubs with great spirit, great communities and great achievements. This sporting competition is all about the taking part, not the winning. The club can be large or small, urban or rural, cup winner or community club. The winning sports club, […]
Horse Racing Goes Dating at the Ploughing
Grade 1 Cheltenham race winning jockeys Bryan Cooper and Adrian Heskin and leading lady amateur jockey Kate Harrington have launched Horse Racing Ireland’s (HRI’s) “Dating at the Races” game which will take place in the HRI marquee at the National Ploughing Championships. Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) will attend the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, […]
Will an all-Ireland soccer team ever happen again?
The Irish Football Association (IFA) was founded in Belfast in 1880. It was the governing body for soccer for the whole of the island of Ireland. Soccer in Ireland was united for over forty years. Then divisions in the sport reached a climax after the First World War, cul With the internationalisation of the English […]
European Adventure Race Final Sells Out in Record Time
Limerick, Ireland – 15/07/2015 – The 2015 Adventure Racing European Series Final, planned for the Ballyhoura area over the August Bank Holiday Weekend has sold out. Organisers, Ballyhoura Fáilte and Causeway Coast Adventure Racing have been delighted with the quick reaction from teams across Europe to the event. The full line up of 50 teams has been […]
ean Kelly and Roz Purcell Launch Down Syndrome Ireland Charity Cycle -Tour de Leinster September 2015-
Sean Kelly and Roz Purcell, launched this year’s charity cycle Tour de Leinster in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland. The charity is calling on cyclists to saddle up for the Tour de Leinster charity challenge which begins on 24th September and continues over four days until 27th September. This year marks the second year of […]
Jennings & Kennedy Take Donegal Crown
Fermanagh driver Garry Jennings and Donegal co-driver Rory Kennedy swept to a commanding win on Ireland’s premier rally event, the Joule Donegal International Rally. Jennings spent most of the opening day of the event embroiled in a battle with current Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Rally Championship leader, Donagh Kelly. Kelly however, was to hit bother […]
Donegal Prepares for International Rally
This weekend Donegal will play host to Ireland’s biggest motorsport event as crews from all over Ireland and beyond descend on the county for the Joule Donegal International Rally. The event, Ireland’s only 3 day rally, will see over 70,000 spectators visit the county giving the local economy a boost in the region of €25 […]