St Mary’s minor team reach Connacht football final
St Mary’s minor football team are into the Connacht minor ‘B’ club final after beating Galway’s Oughterard by 2-14 to 1-11 in the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence in Bekan on Tuesday night. They will face Strokestown in the final on Friday November 1st. The Roscommon side beat Leitrim’s Melvin…
Meetings held to discuss future of St Mary’s College
A number of meetings were held yesterday evening to discuss the future of a secondary school in Sligo. School authorities met with parents and staff at St Mary’s College, Ballisodare, amid fears the school will close permanently in just over 2 years. Ceist, the ‘Catholic Education – An Irish Schools’…
Sligo-Leitrim players spur Connacht to interpro success
Four players from schools in Sligo and Leitrim helped the Connacht U15 team claim victory at the interprovincial tournament in Dublin at the weekend. Leitrim’s Muireann Devaney and Sligo trio Erin Taheny, Sarah Kiernan and Helen Monaghan all featured for Connacht as they beat Ulster, Munster and Leinster to win…
LISTEN BACK: Emma Hansberry on helping Wexford Youths to league title
Sligo native Emma Hansberry spoke with Darragh Cox on the Sunday Sports Show on November 5 after scoring the first goal in Wexford Youth’s title-deciding 2-0 win over Peamount United, and having also featured for St Mary’s LGFA in the Connacht Ladies Intermediate Final defeat to Moycullen at St Croan’s…
Change of venue for St Mary’s Connacht final
There is a change of venue for St Mary’s Connacht Intermediate final on Sunday. The game against Galway champions Moycullen will now take place at St Croan’s GAA Club in Ballintubber, County Roscommon, having originally been fixed for Claremorris. St Mary’s beat Roscommon’s Western Gaels in the semi-finals. Throw-in on…
Harps book their place in county final
Eastern Harps are the first team through to this year’s Sligo senior final. They beat St Mary’s by the narrowest of margins, 1-10 to 1-9, in Sunday’s first semi-final in Markievicz Park. They will now face the winners of next weekend’s second semi-final involving neighbours Tourlestrane and Tubbercurry. Reigning champions…