Tag: Premiership
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Seasider Summer Weekly: Ladies back to winning ways, champions clash kicks off pre-season schedule and another star commits
‘Seasider Summer Weekly’ returns for another edition, and it has once more been an action-packed last seven days at Bangor FC where there has been progress on several fronts. Firstly, the pre-season fixture list has been unveiled by the club, and less than a week’s wait is needed before the Seasiders’ men’s 2023/24 term springs…
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North Belfast derby draw means only Larne have the privilege of a margin for error at the top
On a pouring night in north Belfast, rivals Crusaders and Cliftonville defied the conditions to serve up a feast at Seaview and deliver a dramatic 2-2 draw. The rain did not act as any sort of deterrent for either team to play attack-minded football, with plenty of action in both boxes and a sterling occasion…
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The birth of Cliftonville: How Ireland’s oldest football club laid the blueprint for others to follow
The Irish League is flourishing. With ever-rising attendances and a continually heightening standard of playing personnel, football in Northern Ireland is on a sustained path towards future growth and a superb product has been cultivated. It could also be on the verge of a new dawn. Be it improved television deals or the recent rise…
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Bangor 1-2 Crusaders: Irish Cup adventure ends but not in vain after brave battle
Fight and spirit were keywords to take for Bangor from Friday night’s Irish Cup bonanza, as the Seasiders bravely took Premiership Crusaders to the wire at a rocking Clandeboye Park where their adventure in this season’s competition ended at the sixth round. It was a memorable night for the club, being broadcast live to a…
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Bangor vs Crusaders preview: Irish Cup holders in town as Seasiders eye Clandeboye cupset
On entry into the last-16 stage of the Irish Cup, only one team arrives having played every round of the competition to date. Bangor welcome tournament holders Crusaders with grand aspirations of completing one of the greatest cup surprises in the recent memory of Northern Ireland football, attempting to upset the established Premiership outfit and…
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Omagh Town: The tale of a brave, brilliant Tyrone team leaving a forever unfillable void
The demise of Omagh Town in 2005 left a significant void. In Omagh itself and in the Irish League. The abruptness with which it all happened, how swiftly they ceased to be after their relegation from the Premiership, how speedily St Julian’s Road simply became a structural memorial of their old occupiers. A club who,…
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Larne and Glentoran show, in very different ways, how much transparency means to Irish League supporters
On Saturday evening, following their team’s ninth defeat in the past dozen matches, a congregation of Glentoran supporters crowded outside the ground with a clear message – for first-team manager Mick McDermott to “get out of our club”. It was quite a shift in tone from earlier in the season, when the Glens started in…
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There are few better candidates than Niall Currie to keep Portadown up
The majority of predictors prior to this Premiership season had Portadown as a favourite to struggle. A team who survived courtesy only of emerging on the right side of the relegation/promotion play-off last term, while Paul Doolin was widely lauded for securing that two-legged success over local rivals Annagh United in May, it is fair…
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