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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…

Parents of students at a secondary school in Sligo are being urged to appeal plans for its closure. There are fears St Mary’s College in Ballisodare will close permanently in just over two year due to the decreasing pupil numbers. A number of meetings were held yesterday evening at St…

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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…