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4 days ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer |Neil Loughran |Brendan Crossan
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4 days ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
MEMORIES tell us that every childhood summer was sunny, and every Christmas snow-covered - and all Ulster Finals were thrill-a-minute, taking place with the sun splitting the trees. DON’T remember the ’98…Saturday was as if the calendar had reeled forward two months to July weather – and also turned back a quarter-century to the hard-hitting, action-packed slugfests of the province‘s past.
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4 days ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
‘Did you think he wasn’t getting that?!Jim McGuinness could laugh about it afterwards, but his heart must have skipped more than a beat as this extraordinary game entered the last 30 seconds of extra time. Niall O’Donnell, who two minutes earlier had kicked Donegal back in front, stood with the ball, sizing up his options from a free on the left flank – and then put perhaps an ounce too little on the ball he kicked across the field towards a team-mate.
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4 days ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
Just when Kieran McGeeney thought his Armagh team had finally come up with the answers to end their 17-year wait for Ulster glory, instead they were left pondering how Donegal had defeated them in extra time. Donegal themselves would have wondered how they didn’t inflict a normal time on Armagh, which would have been their first in 14 games, going back to a group stage loss away to Tyrone in 2023.
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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
WHETHER ‘a bit of a mouthful’ is the image the new stadium name sponsors want is debatable, but the agreement to call Northern Ireland’s home the Clearer Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park has been welcomed by both sides. The Irish Football Association and Clearer Water, sponsors of the last two Irish Cup campaigns, confirmed the new title for the south-west Belfast soccer venue was a multi-million pound eight-year agreement.
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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
I’ve said before that it was Joe McAree who got me into sports journalism – but it was partly Rodney too. ‘Mr Dungannon Swifts’ Joe came into the ‘Tyrone Courier’ office, where I was working, after reading an article I’d written about Dungannon Swifts playing a Liverpool U21 team. Joe asked me to start covering the Swifts, so I did - and I loved it, despite the heartache of missing out on a ‘B’ Division title to Loughgall.
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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
Andrew Mitchell and his strike partner John McGovern may notch most of the goals – but the former insists that manager Rodney McAree is the real star for Dungannon Swifts. “Rodney has made a huge difference to Dungannon, there’s no question of that. From where they were two seasons ago, at the bottom, relegation play-offs. “I know from I’ve joined there’s a real difference in the mentality that was probably there before.
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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
THE scars from the 2007 Irish Cup Final defeat aren’t just mental for Rodney McAree. When the Dungannon Swifts manager says, “I feel the pain as the supporters do whenever we don’t get the results,” that’s literally true as regards that heartbreaking penalty shoot-out loss to Linfield exactly 18 years ago:“My memory of 2007 was that I fell into the en suite sink whenever I got back into the house. I ended up getting stitches. My shoes were too big,” he deadpans.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
YELLOW and green, red and black too – those colours will always be part of John McGovern. Green and white hoops are on the horizon. For now, though, the blue and white of Dungannon Swifts is all he’s thinking about. Helping the Tyrone team to take the Irish Cup off holders Cliftonville this Saturday would be akin to winning the Down SFC with his club Ballyholland Harps, and right up there alongside the Ulster U20 title and Tailteann Cup triumphs he has already achieved with his county.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
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