DUNEDIN Connollys Intermediate Ladies have been showing they might well be the team to beat in the North of Britain Championship after securing the first piece of silverware in Scotland.

THE All-Britain Fleadh took place during the last weekend of June and for those attending from Scotland they weren’t just bathed in sunshine, they were bathed with medals too.

ON MARCH 12, 1925, the newly formed State police force, An Garda Síochána, launched a large-scale raid on Dublin’s notorious red-light district, the Monto, an operation ordered by Garda Commissioner William Murphy.

A LANDMARK year lies in wait for the Ceann Creige Camogie team—a first year playing Senior Camogie in the UK.

WHEN Glaswegian Paul O’Donaghue ends up in lockdown after travelling to a small village on the north coast of Donegal for his mother’s funeral, he’s not unduly worried.

THE hopes of Palestinian children planning to travel to Ireland for a summer of sport amid the destruction and devastation surrounding them have been dashed after their visa applications were rejected.

CEANN Creige came out on top in a fiercely contested clash against Wolfe Tones of Liverpool, edging the tie by just two points in a match that showcased precision versus power.

IN 1991 the sensation that was The Commitments arrived in our cinemas and on our bookshelves. The soundtrack of the movie was a number one album and sold in its millions internationally.

IF THE Senior Men’s League Football Final was a spectacle, then the Intermediate equivalent the following day—also held in Dawson Park in Dundee—was no less exciting.

TO COMMEMORATE the founding of the club on August 6, 1875, Hibernian FC has prepared an exhibition in the very place and on the very same day that the club was founded 150 years ago.

ON THE road from Derry to Belfast you’ll see a sign for ‘Seamus Heaney’s Homeplace.’ It’s in Bellaghy, County Derry, which is about five miles north of Magherafelt.

SCOTLAND GAA’s current footballing powerhouses, Glasgow Gaels and Dunedin Connollys, locked horns once again in the Senior Men’s League Final at Dawson Park in Dundee, with the Edinburgh side winning out by the slimmest of margins after a fiercely contested game.

A HIBS legend and a living link to the foundation of the club, no-one better embodies the history and spirit of the Edinburgh club, and now Pat Stanton has been honoured with the renaming of the East Stand at Easter Road.

IT'S 8AM on William Street in the heart of Derry’s Bogside. Rain clouds loom overhead but nothing dampens the excitement as we check out of the B&B and climb into our hire car. The Wild Atlantic Way awaits.

THE manager of a co-operative for a small island off the south-west coast of County Cork is appealing to families among the Irish diaspora to follow his lead and make it their new home.

AS HIBERNIAN FC approaches its 150th anniversary on August 6 2025, the club’s current custodians have arranged a number of special events to celebrate the sesquicentennial.

Twenty years ago, I was with colleagues in Dublin for a once -per-term meet-up of participants in a postgraduate psychotherapy course. It was organised across Northern Europe with students from Britain, Denmark, Iceland and Ireland.

A very excited group of 21 Scotland LGFA Under-15 girls, along with their coaches and a dedicated band of parents, set off from Edinburgh Airport recently. Their destination—the Under-15 Féile in Derry.

IT'S NOT often I’d say someone feels like a long lost soul sister before actually meeting them, but that’s exactly how I felt when I read From Grief to Gratitude, a beautifully honest and heartfelt memoir written by Catriona Whyte, documenting her life journey and experiences of grief and loss and her subsequent road to healing.

AN INFLUX from Scotland is not unusual when Donegal have business at Croke Park, but this year’s football semi-final at the home of the...