Sligo Rovers face Cork City on Saturday – online!
The League of Ireland may be in shutdown mode – but Sligo Rovers and Cork City are getting ready to play each other in a virtual Premier Division game this Saturday night at 7:45pm. The two clubs have come together to play an online match (using FIFA 2020) which supporters…
Ross McCarrick to be remembered with tournament in the Showgrounds
Sixteen teams from the across North West will descend on the Showgrounds this Saturday to contest the second Ross McCarrick Memorial Cup. Ross, who passed away last June after a short illness, was an avid Sligo Rovers and Liverpool F.C fan. Following the sudden passing of the fifteen-year-old Ross last…
Sligo Traveller Support Group to play Gardaí in memory of Martin Mongan
At 8pm on Monday next, July 15, at the Sean Fallon Centre in the Showgrounds, teams from the Sligo Traveller Support group (STSG) and An Gardaí Síochána will face off in the 3rd annual Martin Mongan Memorial Shield match. The game has been organised in memory of the late Martin…
Rovers U17 women prove too strong for Donegal
Sligo Rovers saw off the challenge of their north west rivals, the Donegal League, on a 3-2 score line, after a hard fought battle in IT Sligo on Saturday with an Alva Munnelly strike three minutes from time proving to be the winner for the Bit O’Red. Goals from Aoife O’Neill and Kate O’Dowd had put Rovers two…
Sligo-Leitrim U13s win Galway Cup
The Sligo-Leitrim U13 league team won the prestigious Galway Cup in Mervue on Saturday. The side managed by Alan Farry beat Chicago Fire 1-0 in the Super Elite Final. They came through their group games unbeaten on Friday.
Solitary football match between Sligo travellers and Ballaghadereen refugees
On Tuesday evening August 7th teams representing Sligo Traveller Support Group (STSG) and the Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre (EROC) Ballaghadereen met in a friendly solidarity football match in the Roscommon town. It was the second such game to take place, the first having happened in January in Sligo, and is part…
Sligo travellers and refugees in Ballaghaderreen to take part in solidarity football game
A friendly football match will take place this Tuesday evening August 7th in Ballaghaderreen between a team representing the Sligo Traveller Support Group and players from Syria and Iraq currently based at the Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre (EROC) in the Roscommon town. The players from Syria and Iraq have been based there…