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McKervey stars against Rangers

Both of these sides were tipped to challenge for the title this season so Crumlin Star were eager to put in a good performance.

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All White on the night for Mals

The Mals progressed to the last 16 of the Steel & Sons Cup with an impressive 4-3 extra-time win over Lisburn Distillery Reserves, despite being reduced to ten-men after 62 minutes.

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Derby joy for Clifton Athletic

Clifton Athletic II travelled to the Valley for their first North Belfast derby of the season against Ligoniel WMC.

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Gung-ho Reds pay the price

LAST Saturday’s was exactly the sort of afternoon that Tommy Breslin warned we’d have to endure every now and again when he was appointed.

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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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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.