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Battling Glenpark salvage a draw

Glenpark’s first fixture in Division 1 of the league ended in a draw with Cumman Spoirt an Phobail at Grove Playing Fields.

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Hibs maintain fine start to the BDFL season

Hibernians maintained their fine start to Division 2 with a hard-fought win over tough opposition in Colin Bhoys.

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Mistakes prove costly for Shamrock

Belfast & District League Division 3 Shamrock II             3 St Luke’s III             6   Shamrock will have come away from this defeat at the Grove with plenty of positives despite conceding six goals. The Ardoyne men got off to the perfect start when Liam O’Neill found the back of the net but Shamrock’s [...]

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Five star St Pat’s

St Patrick’s started their league campaign with a good win over Ballysillan.

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Perfect ten for young Swans

U17 Belfast & East Antrim Youth League Larne Youth             1 Newington FC             10   Newington’s U17s carried on their great start to the season with a comprehensive victory over Larne Youth at the Grove last Saturday. Newington started brightly and were three goals up within 15 minutes. Darren Fitzsimons scored his first goal [...]

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St Malachy’s Old Boys hit top form

St Malachy’s Old Boys maintained their 100 per cent start to the season with a convincing win over St Paul’s.

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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.