Our Sporting Lives and Times: Billy McKee, Carl Frampton's first coach, is sure Jackal will win next weekend's Christmas cracker BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Just three weeks before one of the biggest nights of his career Carl Frampton enjoyed a fireside chat with the man for whom he admits his ring success would never have been possible. At 80 years of age Billy McKee has decided it is time to leave the sport which has given him great memories and personal satisfaction for how it has changed so many lives. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/boxing/our-sporting-lives-and-times-billy-mckee-carl-framptons-first-coach-is-sure-jackal-will-win-next-weekends-christmas-cracker-37627917.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article37628122.ece/0c5a2/AUTOCROP/h342/eCooperMcClure003.jpg Email Just three weeks before one of the biggest nights of his career Carl Frampton enjoyed a fireside chat with the man for whom he admits his ring success would never have been possible. At 80 … [Read more...] about Our Sporting Lives and Times: Billy McKee, Carl Frampton’s first coach, is sure Jackal will win next weekend’s Christmas cracker
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Declan Bogue: Sports funding cuts have human side our absent politicians fail to grasp
Declan Bogue: Sports funding cuts have human side our absent politicians fail to grasp BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Last February was the highlight of Karol McQuade's life in Gaelic Games. Coming on in as an injury-time substitute for his club Moy Tír Na nÓg, he was on the Croke Park pitch when the final whistle blew and confirmed the Tyrone club as All-Ireland Intermediate club champions. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/gaa/declan-bogue-sports-funding-cuts-have-human-side-our-absent-politicians-fail-to-grasp-37627949.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/gaa/article37627948.ece/b0579/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-12-15_spo_46536114_I1.JPG Email Last February was the highlight of Karol McQuade's life in Gaelic Games. Coming on in as an injury-time substitute for his club Moy Tír Na nÓg, he was on the Croke Park pitch when the final whistle blew and confirmed the Tyrone club as All-Ireland Intermediate club champions. Sean Cavanagh's recently-published … [Read more...] about Declan Bogue: Sports funding cuts have human side our absent politicians fail to grasp
NI sports stars toast Dame Mary’s good health at charity fundraiser
NI sports stars toast Dame Mary's good health at charity fundraiser BelfastTelegraph.co.uk All Dame Mary Peters wants for Christmas is continued good health. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/ni-sports-stars-toast-dame-marys-good-health-at-charity-fundraiser-37627904.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article37627897.ece/e282f/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-12-15_new_46547871_I3.JPG Email All Dame Mary Peters wants for Christmas is continued good health. But she got an early present yesterday when a selection of sports stars turned out to support her ‘Race to a Million’ campaign as she made her first public appearance after extensive open heart surgery.Northern Ireland’s 1972 Olympic golden girl turned national treasure looked radiant at the Sport Inspires Lunch at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast to raise funds for the Mary Peters Trust. And she said she was determined to enjoy her first outing after a six-hour NHS … [Read more...] about NI sports stars toast Dame Mary’s good health at charity fundraiser
‘This impasse is tearing the whole place apart’: The Stormont standoff’s devastating affect on sport
On Thursday lunchtime, a group of 23 Ulster Council coaches gathered in the head offices in Market Street, Armagh City.They were there to hand over their footballs, laptop computers, hurleys, sliotars, hula hoops and all other items of equipment.They had a lunch with the office staff and that was them relieved of duties, victims of the ongoing impasse of the Stormont Executive as funding for their jobs is finished less than a fortnight before Christmas.It’s not like this hasn’t been coming. The Curriculum Sports Programme has always been dependent on Government funding, but given it had been in place since 2007 and provided an invaluable resource to schools and teachers who were already stretched in all directions, it might have been safe to assume it would continue.It’s worth noting the figures here. Ulster Council coaches went into 346 schools across Northern Ireland. This year, that amounted to 9,208 boys and 9,031 girls they were delivering coaching to.The Irish … [Read more...] about ‘This impasse is tearing the whole place apart’: The Stormont standoff’s devastating affect on sport
Two major sport and music events in 2019
A ‘national sporting event’ and ‘three date music festival’ next summer will be supported by a £35,000 subvention from Derry City & Strabane District Council under a programme that’s previously supported major concerts and festivals in the district. The decision to allocate the funding was approved by members of DC&SDC’s Business & Culture Committee and expected to be rubber-stamped by the Council at its December meeting as the ‘Journal’ went to Press last night.Head of Culture at DC&SDC, Aeidin McCarter, informed councillors that the Council received two requests for funding under the National Events Subvention Fund.One of these was from the organiser of a four-day ‘national sporting event’ running from June 27, 2019, who requested £30,000. The other request was from the organiser of a music event that will run over three days next July. They requested £20,000.Ms. McCarter said both of the … [Read more...] about Two major sport and music events in 2019