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North Belfast Dart League returns with Charity Shield

AFTER a summer of slumber the Hunky Dory’s North Belfast Dart League returned for the season opening Charity Shield in the St Malachy’s Old Boys club

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Beale wins first round of North Belfast Open

THE severe artic conditions of last winter prompted organisers to start this year’s North Belfast Open a month earlier and Ligoniel man Keith Beale ensured

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North Belfast Open returns for second year

This second running of the North Belfast Open will take place in the Shamrock Social club in Ardoyne this Saturday and will run for nine weeks of qualifiers for

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Major shock in Pierce Jordan Cup

With the first round of fixtures underway and some pretty tasty draws it will be interesting to see if last season’s winners the Avoca can go on and make it a

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Mixed Pairs competition a success in Crumlin Star

The Crumlin Star hosted the Marcella Fitzpatrick Memorial mixed pairs darts competition on Saturday to raise funds for the MacMillan Cancer Trust.

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Lock us up and swallow the key!

I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if Sinn Féin say no about something, I say yes”.

Big man of GAA celebrates in style

Veni, Vidi, Vinci . I came, I saw, I conquered, was the powerful message sent back to Rome by Julius Caesar when he won a war in Zela (currently known as Zile in Turkey. After spending two days with the Gaels of Glengormley, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh might well have sent a similar message back to headquarters. Throughout the two days he won the hearts of all who met him as he demonstrated his love and passion for the Irish language and Gaelic games.

That’s not the way to do it as summer nears

THERE’S nothing funnier for children to watch than a long-suffering wife getting battered with a cudgel by a short-tempered violent husband – or so you’d think if you watched a seaside Punch and Judy show.

Blues make it a double

Linfield replicated their end of season celebrations from 12 months ago as they lifted their second trophy in the space of a week, defeating Crusaders 4-1 in Saturday’s Irish Cup final.

My marathon highs and lows

HIGHLIGHTS 1. Sheltering in City Hall with marathon veteran from New York Fr Brian Jordan — chaplain to the trade unions of the Big Apple — before the 9am start while thousands were getting drenched outside waiting for the Lord Mayor Niall Óg to sound the starting horn (gun for off apparently decommissioned).

Who calls the shots in Europe?

I enjoy elections. I enjoy them so much, I was delighted when the Fianna Fáil wheeze of introducing electronic voting machines backfired, leaving them (and the taxpayer, of course) with machinery that couldn’t be used and cost a packet to store.