Tag: Playr-Fit Premier Intermediate League
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Coagh United’s perfect January a major boost to Co Tyrone’s place in the Irish League
A few weeks can make a big difference in football – and that is something Coagh United can suitably attest to. After joining Rathfriland in achieving promotion through the three-team play-in last summer, the Co Tyrone outfit had yet to ignite in the league standings during 2023 and, having scooped up merely seven points from…
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Stewart Nixon’s resurgence is an inspirational feelgood tale of the 2023/24 campaign
Seeing a player who has battled hard through personal adversity to return to their peak performance will never not be a satisfying sight. That’s exactly the case with Stewart Nixon, the flying forward whose injury hell finally looks to be behind him. At the start of this season, the fleet-footed attacker made a surprise loan…
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Free-flowing new boys Rathfriland on track to establish themselves in Irish League long-term
A Friday night showdown takes place at Iveagh Park between two clubs with contrastingly differing lengths of historical archive in the NI Football League. Lisburn Distillery, one of the oldest football clubs on the island of Ireland, will face Irish League first-timers Rathfriland in the Playr-Fit Premier Intermediate League. Two clubs nicknamed the Whites, the…
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Bringing back salary cap a small step but giant leap towards professionalism in the Irish League
The hive of discussion on how to improve the Irish League is always abuzz. Whether on or off the pitch, the spoken, overarching ambition of organisation CEO Gerard Lawlor is to see greater professionalism throughout the NI Football League. Earlier in the season, the former Cliftonville chairman unveiled the league body’s five-year plan titled ‘A…
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Gary Boyle’s return to Warrenpoint Town is the perfect move for all parties
Having departed his role as Newry City manager following the side’s 4-0 Boxing Day defeat to Glenavon, Gary Boyle is back in the game. The 36-year-old, who took up the mantle at The Showgrounds having served as his predecessor Darren Mullen’s long-time assistant in the summer of 2023, announced that he’d be stepping down as…
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Upset value in the Irish Cup on full display in the Fifth Round… with every chance of continuing
In the Irish Cup Sixth Round, there were three all-Premiership ties pulled out of the hat that all but confirms the amount of top-flight clubs will have at least been slashed in half from the last-32 by the time the quarter-finals roll around. League leaders Linfield will host relegation-battling Ballymena United, second-placed Larne entertain Glenavon…
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Ballymacash Rangers’ Irish Cup showdown with Glentoran pick of the last-16 ties for TV billing
When the Irish Cup Fifth Round draw was made, intermediate representation in the last-16 had already been rubber-stamped when Oxford Sunnyside of the Mid-Ulster League learned that they would face Premier Intermediate League opposition in Ballymacash Rangers. It was history in itself for The ‘Cash, who were featuring at this stage of the blue-riband 143-year-old…
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Resurgent Armagh City sneaking in unsighted in their bid to leave a mark in PIL promotion race
The New Year’s Day clash at Milltown between Warrenpoint Town and Armagh City naturally saw much of the attention placed on the hosts. After all, reports had broken less than 24 hours earlier that ‘Point chief Barry Gray was about to swap one side of the Mourne Ultimatum for the other and take the vacant…
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