Newbridge are Derry SFC champions for the first time in 35 years and Niall Gartland looks at other clubs who ended a long wait Creggan Kickhams (87 years) ANTRIM club Creggan Kickhams waited a whopping 87 years for their third Antrim Senior Championship title. For decades upon decades, 1943 and 1954 stood side-by-side as their […]
A VERITABLE footballing feast. That’s what lies in store on the club front this weekend as all eight Tyrone Club Senior and Intermediate Championship quarter-finals will be played off in a bumper 48-hour period commencing with Friday night’s double header at O’Neill’s Healy Park. Intermediate contenders Beragh and Greencastle get the action underway followed by […]
Ben Gormley (right) gives his thoughts on the players he has battled alongside… Name: Ben Gormley. Age: 24. Teams played for: Thomas Clarke’s, Eoghan Ruadh, Tyrone u-17 footballers, Tyrone hurlers u14 to seniors, Ulster u-17 hurlers and Academy MacRory. Advertisement Earliest GAA memory? Dad taking me to the 2005 All-Ireland final, where Tyrone beat Kerry […]
By Niall Gartland CIARAN Gourley’s commitment to the St Patrick’s Academy is unquestionable but it’s evident in the tone and content of his words that he hasn’t made it a personal crusade to bring the MacRory Cup back to the college. The former Tyrone defender, always measured in word and deed, helped manage St Pat’s […]
By Niall Gartland WHAT a difference a year makes for St Patrick’s Academy vice-captain Sean Hughes, whose free-taking exploits have been pivotal to their run to a first MacRory Cup final appearance in nine years. Last January St Pat’s were left licking their wounds after a bitterly disappointing semi-final defeat to Holy Trinity, Cookstown, and Hughes […]
By Niall Gartland LEAGUE form counts for very little in the bearpit that is the Tyrone Senior Club Championships but Dromore’s Ryan McCusker says they have no issue whatsoever with the traditional knock-out format. Dromore finished top of the pile in Division One but already two of the four semi-finalists, namely Killyclogher and Carrickmore, have […]
IT WAS an eventful and inspiring morning for the Dungannon Thomas Clarkes last Thursday as they officially cut the ribbon at the ceremonial opening of their brand new, state-of-the-art club facilities on the Lisnahull Road. The £1.3million health and community hub will include a community hall, fitness suite, dance studio, meeting space, mixed changing areas and aims to benefit […]
IT was rather poignant in the week that Feargal Logan and Brian Dooher were ratified to remain on as Tyrone senior joint managers, that their distinguished predecessor Art McRory should pass away. The current management team are just two of hundreds of players down through the years to have benfitted from the astute guidance and […]
By Alan Rodgers MAJOR Tyrone and Ulster Club Championship matches could soon be returning to O’Neill Park in Dungannon after a grant of £100,000 has been received from Croke Park for new floodlights. The announcement of the financial aid comes as a £2 million development of the famous ground gathers pace. In the summer of […]
By Barry O’Donnell FESTIVE time indulgences will have to be put on hold among the teenagers of Donaghmore as the club’s Minors eye a very special Christmas present. The Tyrone double winners are now just sixty minutes away from an appearance in a provincial final, but standing in their way are Four Masters of Donegal […]
