It looks as though Ballinamallard United’s excellent season has come to to an end without promotion. Club chairman Tom Elliott said he was hugely disappointed but not totally surprised that Ballinamallard United are likely to miss out on promotion after the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) announced that the Championship season was […]
Stafford offered new Linfield deal
MARK Stafford admits he was pleasantly surprised to be offered a new contract at Linfield especially during lockdown. The Ballinamallard man has signed a one year extension which will keep him at Windsor Park until the end of the 2020-21 season. The offer of a new contract will be viewed as just reward for […]
Coping without sport… We all need it to give us a life
The Herald speaks to Harry McConkey, Ballinamallard Utd manager and former physical education teacher, on sport in Fermanagh. How he views the importance of sport in our county, how we are dealing without it and what lies ahead for us. How important has sport been in Fermanagh? “I feel sport is in the very heart […]
Liverpool fan takes a chance on baby’s delivery date
Steven Craig, James McKenna and Aidan McCarron head to the Spanish capital to cheer on their beloved Reds in a bid to take their fourth title.
Sponsors to stick with football club despite relegation
Big blow to local soccer as Ballinamallard drop out of the top flight
Man of the hour ‘Couldn’t be happier’
Carlsberg don’t do Junior Cup finals, but if they did it would probably work out like Willie Burleigh’s. Eleven years after winning the Harry Cavan Youth Cup with Enniskillen Rangers, Burleigh got his hands on the greatest prize in Northern Ireland junior football as club captain. The Benaughlin sheep farmer led his team out at […]
Two publicans convicted over illegal football coverage
The publicans were fined for showing Premier League matches last year.
Trouble on the terraces after Ballinamallard win
Rival football fans kept apart after Plucky Ballinamallard boys claim another big scalp in the Irish League
Fermanagh delight at football success
Fermanagh folk were smiling last night as both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland won their European Championship qualifiers
Santos see off Athletic in excellent local derby
There was little to separate these two sides for long periods in what was an excellent advertisement for Division 2 football in the Fermanagh & Western. The game was won in the last 25minute by Santos who made it 3-1 with a goal that both managers felt was offside. Santos would kick on after the decision went there way to run out comfortable winners with a strong finishing quarter.