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Top Sport Stories | Thursday, July 24, 2008


     Soccer: Fun times return as Rovers go goal crazy!

Sligo Rovers 4 Finn Harps 1
Rafael Cretaro, the scorer of Sligo Rovers’ fourth goal on Saturday night acknowledges a word from the Sligo Rovers dugout after he scored.

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GAA: It’s London galling as Sligo falter in Ruislip

London 3-14 Sligo 2-12
St Molaise Gaels player Eoin McHugh, the Sligo wing-back, tries to digest the outcome of the Tommy Murphy Cup quarter-final against London.

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More Sport News | Thursday, July 24, 2008

GAA: Hurlers show true grit as second-half display is so vital
7/22/2008
Sligo 2-15 Tyrone 2-11
TO assess a team’s true merits, don’t just watch them when they are four or five points up, see what they can do when they are faced with a deficit.
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GAA: Teen spirit is the key to a superb result
7/22/2008
Roscommon 1-10 Sligo 2-8
A NEVER-say-die performance saw the Sligo U-16 Gaelic footballers edge a pulsating final of the Fr Manning Cup at Michael Fay Park, Longford, on Wednesday evening last.
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Home win lifts gloom
7/22/2008
ON the back of a week where the club’s management committee issued a dramatic SOS - €130,000 must be raised over the next six weeks to stabilise the Bit O’Red’s immediate future - Sligo Rovers’ 4-1 home thumping of Finn Harps was a most welcome result.  more >

Caretaker calls for new blood in Sligo
7/22/2008
JOHN Kent feels it is now time for some “fresh faces” in the Sligo set-up after last year’s Nestor Cup champions crashed to a shock defeat to London in the Tommy Murphy Cup quarter-final last Saturday.  more >

Hapless Harps playing the last waltz
7/22/2008
PROOF, if ever it was needed, that football is a cyclical sport, came in The Showgrounds on Saturday night as Sligo Rovers put in a dominant display against an always struggling Finn Harps.  more >

Toolan asks Sligo to dig deep for the Bit O’Red
7/22/2008
MICHAEL Toolan is confident that the people of Sligo will rally to save one of their own - Sligo Rovers Football Club.  more >

Sligo’s tag rugby season comes to a sporting end!
7/22/2008
SLIGO’S tag rugby phenomenon, part of the nationwide Summer Tag Rugby League which is organised by the Irish Tag Rugby Association and sponsored by mineral water producers, Volvic, concluded on last Thursday at Hamilton Park.  more >

Sligo teams savour their day in the provincial arena
7/22/2008
EIGHT Sligo teams will travel to Mosney for the HSE Community Games national finals in August after securing victories in the provincial finals in Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday last, July 19.  more >

The ‘worst ever’ wasn’t Saturday’s crash in Ruislip
7/22/2008
UNTIL you can term a situation as the ‘worst ever’ then it simply isn’t. Losing to minnows London, a ‘county’ on the periphery of the lop-sided GAA world, a side whose greatest aspiration is to win just one game in the Connacht Senior Championship (isn’t it time they were handed to Leinster or Munster for a spell), isn’t the worst.  more >

Golf: Northern exposure gives McDermott further impetus
7/22/2008
GARY McDermott achieved the highest finish of his amateur career last week at the North of Ireland Championship when he was narrowly beaten in the quarter-final of an event won by West of Ireland champion Shane Lowry.  more >