Quartet honoured at annual awards


Four key players in local football were honoured at the annual Fermanagh and Western Hall of Fame awards last Friday evening. Chairman of the Fermanagh and Western Referees’ Association (FWRA), Basil Marshall and Irvinestown Wanderers club stalwart and long serving Fermanagh and Western management committee member Martin ‘Fred’ Lynch were both inducted into the Hall of […]

‘Time to step away’: Higginbotham leaves Irvinestown


Darren Higginbotham has resigned as manager of Irvinestown Wanderers following Saturday’s heavy defeat to Strathroy Harps. Although the decision was made immediately after the match, Higginbotham insists it wasn’t an emotional reaction but something he had been considering for weeks. “It was decided straight after the game,” said Higginbotham. “I always felt potentially if my […]

Future looks bright for newly crowned champions


Irvinestown W’derers 8 Maguiresbridge 0 Irvinestown Wanderers secured the division two title in style, on Saturday, with an eight-goal rout at the Bawnacre. Darren Higginbotham’s team has looked like champions in waiting for some time and on Saturday they put sacrificial ‘lambs’ Maguiresbridge to the slaughter. Six different players were on the scoresheet, including 16-year-old Mattie […]

Wanderers welcome Linfield to town


IRVINESTOWN Wanderers 2012s took on Belfast heavyweights, Linfield, in a friendly game at the Bawnacre Centre on Sunday. The Linfield side is graded at ‘red’ level, the elite of underage football in Belfast. Irvinestown 2012, who are graded a step below at ‘blue’ level, have had a very impressive season, winning a number of local […]

Wanderers beat the Crues to bring home the Shield


The wet and windy conditions didn’t deter the Irvinestown Wanderers 2012s on Sunday as they travelled to Belfast for a tournament hosted by the Albert Foundry Academy. Tournament favourites Belfast Celtic and Shankill Junior were both in Irvinestown’s group along with North Belfast side St Malachy’s. Up first was Shankill but the Fermanagh boys disposed […]

Santos through in cup after tight tussle


Enniskillen Santos are the last Fermanagh & Western side standing in the Junior Cup following defeats for Strathroy Harps, Beragh Swifts and Irvinestown Wanderers at the weekend.

Lee Glass hat-trick denies Wanderers


Irvinestown Wanderers failed to capitalise on league leaders Enniskillen Santos first loss of the season at the weekend as they were held to a 3-3 draw with Derrychara at the Lakeland Forum.