Saints march to first ever senior hurling victory
ST SYLVESTER'S recorded their first ever win in the senior hurling championship with Martin Ormonde marking his return to the side with a 12 point haul for the Malahide men.
ST SYLVESTER'S recorded their first ever win in the senior hurling championship with Martin Ormonde marking his return to the side with a 12 point haul for the Malahide men.
WILD GEESE got their season off to the best possible start with an away win in Stillorgan last Sunday. Crokes won the toss and elected to play with the strong breeze and they opened the scoring with two points from frees before Tom Kennedy levelled with a point from play and then a free.
Rory Kerr
IHC Group B
GARRISTOWN GFC will host an international football match on Saturday under the sign of the Celtic brotherhood.
ST SYLVESTER'S recorded their first ever win in the senior hurling championship with Martin Ormonde marking his return to the side with a 12 point haul for the Malahide men.
SKERRIES Harps senior camogie team marked their inaugural year in the Leinster League by reaching the final when they came out on top against visitors St Munnas from Westmeath in Skerries.
THE men and women of Clann Mhuire GFC in Naul were glamming it up as the club held a fundraising fashion show at the Bracken Court Hotel.
Rory Kerr
SO much for a good start being half the battle.
NOT many were there on Saturday to witness Fingal's victory in Division 3A of the National Hurling League. A hostile, giddy wind blew around the ground as Tyrone and Monaghan took lumps out of the turf and occasionally each other in the curtain raiser. Even the Cavan hawkers ignored the possibility of flogging Fingal favours to the travelling supporters and remained indoors to count their blessings as well as anecdotally their money.
Rory Kerr
IN a repeat of last year's championship fixture, St Maur's came out on top with the introduction of Dublin forward Ciaran Reddin changing the course of the game.
ST Patrick's GAA Club from Donabate held its third annual Gala night at the Grand Hotel in Malahide recently where a footballing legend was the guest of honour.
AN under-nine team from Rolestown got the thrill of their lives last week when they took to the hallowed turf at Croke Park to play in a Leinster invitation tournament.
Tuesday 9 April
A SWORDS woman, who turned 90 last month, has scooped a whopping €37,800 on the Winning Streak TV game show.
THE brave volunteers on the Skerries RNLI lifeboat were called into action not once but twice in a single afternoon as two yachts got into difficulty.
THE campaign to bring a 'road train' to Malahide has gathered pace in the last week with a road test of the proposed train that would take tourists around the historic village.
IT'S been another terrible week for Health Minister Dr. James Reilly.
THE council has called for patience among motorists on the ongoing upgrade of the M1 at Lissenhall which it says will deliver huge benefits to motorists when it is completed.
CONSULTANTS working on a crucial road project aimed at taking heavy traffic from outside the front doors of long-suffering residents of a Balbriggan estate will finish the design for the long-awaited scheme this month.
FINGAL County Council has flatly denied that Swords has the 'most dangerous roundabout in Ireland'.
SEPARATE protests in Rush and Balbriggan this week kept up the pressure on Fingal County Council to reverse cuts to library opening hours in both towns.
PREPARATIONS are gathering pace in Skerries as the seaside town once again hosts the final stage of the An Post Ras, which will roll into town at the end of the month.
MORE than 2,500 people dressed in yellow t-shirts watched the dawn break over Newbridge House as part of Fingal's first Darkness into Light walk in aid of Pieta House in Dublin.