Eleven Donegal Gymnasts are representing Ireland at the World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne Switzerland this week.
If you wondered what all the commotion was at 5.30am in the morning was last week it may have been due to the 11 young Donegal gymnasts that will make up the Irish team for the World Gymnaestrada.

LEO McLoone was discharged from Altnegalvin Hospital in Derry yesterday afternoon, Thursday, after the Glenties man underwent surgery on Wednesday to have a plate inserted into his eye socket.

SHAY Given has been identified by Aston Villa as the man to solve their goalkeeping shortage.

Villa have been without a front-line keeper since Brad Friedel brought his three-year claret and blue career to an end when he opted to join Spurs earlier in the summer.

DONEGAL Senior football manager Jim McGuinness will be keeping his fingers crossed that none of his players pick up injuries ahead of the Ulster final meeting with Derry on Sunday, July 17.

All members of the squad were released back to their respective clubs in time for this weekend’s Senior Football Championship First Round, Second leg ties.

BY HARRY WALSH
DONEGAL hurler Jamesie Donnelly is having to pinch himself to make sure he is not imaging things as he sits in his Brockagh home and reflects back on an eventful seven days.

The 27-year-old MacCumhaills defender played a pivotal role as Donegal finally won an All Ireland hurling title at Croke Park on Saturday last before dashing back home to attend the birth of his first child, Ella May.

Letterkenny boxer Eddie Ward claimed his first All-Ireland title at Super-Heavyweight by defeating Thomas Conroy of Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo on a scoreline of 11-7 on Saturday last in the National Stadium, Dublin.

Eddie got off to a great start in the opening round by catching the strong Connaught boxer with stiff double left jabs and straight right hands to finish the round 4-1 ahead.

By Harry Walsh Ten years have passed since young Ramelton goalkeeper Conrad Logan joined Leicester City, then plying their trade in the English Premier Division club, on a five year deal. The only son of Joe and Marian Logan, 15-year-old Conrad opted to join Leicester having been on trial with a number of cross channel […]

By Aidan O’Donnell
Brendan Boyce has set his sights on cementing a place on the Irish Athletics team at next year’s Olympic Games in London.
The Milford Athlete, currently studying at Leeds Metropolitan University, shook off a serious knee injury that curtailed his progression early in the year to produce a phenomenal performance in a 20K event at the European Cup of Racewalking in Portugal last weekend.

TERMON’S Geraldine McLaughlin has been named in the Bord Gáis Energy Ladies Football Division 1 Team of the League at a ceremony in Croke Park. This is the third year that Bord Gáis Energy have sponsored the Ladies Football National Leagues and these awards honour those players, across all four divisions, that delivered on a […]