GAA: Sligo win easily, Leitrim enthrall in epic encounter — and Ocean FM was there to capture it all
Sligo and Leitrim GAA county teams will return home victorious after their weekend trips to London and New York. Sligo easily overcame London with a final scoreline of 2-21 to 1-11. But it was the Leitrim/New York game that had fans on the edge of their seats to the very…
Sligo get the job done in London
Sligo are safely through to the Connacht Senior Football Championship semi-finals. Cathal Corey’s first senior intercounty game as manager saw his Yeats team beat London by 1-21 to 1-11 in front of a huge crowd in a sun-soaked McGovern Park in Ruislip on Sunday. Sligo will now face either Mayo…
LISTEN BACK: Sligo Masters footballer Con O’Meara
Former Sligo senior footballer and current Sligo Masters footballer Con O’Meara joined Ocean FM’s Darragh Cox on Sunday Sports to chat about the new season, which begins for the Sligo Masters against London on the same weekend as London and Sligo clash in the Connacht Senior Championship quarter-final in Ruislip.
Border communities group makes its Brexit case in London today
The group Border Communities Against Brexit is bringing its campaign to Westminster today. Members of the group are in London to brief politicians there on what they see as as the negative affects Brexit will have for Northern Ireland and border communities. This morning, they are holding a briefing which…
Ballymote native living in London praises the city’s police after attacks
A Sligo man residing in London has praised the speed with which the Metropolitan Police responded to Saturday night’s attacks in London. Andy Rogers, who is a Director at the British/Irish Chamber of Commerce is a native of Ballymote but now lives in North London. He told Ocean FM News…
People are wary but are getting on with life, says Sligo man in London
A Sligo man living in London says people in the English capital are getting on with their daily lives despite yesterday’s double attack in the city. Seven people have were killed while the London ambulance service says 48 people are being treated in hospitals across the city following last night’s…
LISTEN BACK: Aogán Ó Fearghaíl and Joe McHugh TD at McGovern Park
At the opening of the newly re-developed McGovern Park in Ruislip, London, ahead of the Connacht Senior Football Championship quarter-final, which was won by Leitrim on a scoreline of 3-10 to 0-16, GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghaíl and Minister for the Diaspora Joe McHugh TD spoke to Ocean FM’s Pauric…