Irish & International Sports News, Fixtures & Results

Goals and controversy as Longford edge Louth

Longford advanced to the quarter-final of the Eirgrid Leinster U20 championship at Louth's expense after a controversial conclusion in Haggardstown.

GAA • 01 Jul 21

Shannen McLoughlin of Louth and Leitrim's Bronagh O'Rourke challenge for the ball

Strong first-half showing propels Louth to Div 4 title

Niamh Rice scored 2-03 as Louth defeated Leitrim to claim the Lidl National Football League Division 4 title at St Tiernach's Park in Clones.

GAA • 27 Jun 21

Niall McNamee (right) celebrates after scoring Offaly's second goal

McNamee's extra class drives Offaly past Harte's Louth

Veteran Offaly forward Niall McNamee showed all his class to fire his team into the quarter-finals of the Leinster SFC as the Faithful County beat Louth 3-19 to 0-19 after extra-time in Navan.

Football • 27 Jun 21

Conor Grimes scored the Louth goal towards the end of the first half

Louth sparkle in gaining promotion

Louth secured promotion to Division 3 at the first time of asking with a comprehensive eight-point Allianz League semi-final victory over Carlow on their home ground, Netwatch Cullen Park.

GAA • 12 Jun 21

Paul Matthews scored two goals for Louth as they confirmed promotion from 3B with victory over Fermanagh

Allianz Hurling League 2B/3B round-up

Kildare lead the way in 2B while Louth secure promotion from 3B at the first time of asking.

GAA • 06 Jun 21

Louth come good in the second half to beat Sligo

Louth turned on the style in the second half against Sligo in the all-or-nothing showdown in the final round of the competitive Division 4 north at a sun kissed Haggardstown.

GAA • 30 May 21

Mickey Harte's men bounced back after last week's defeat to Antrim

Harte off the mark as Louth leave Leitrim in the dust

Mickey Harte enjoyed his first win as Louth manager as his side carried out a second-half demolition job on Leitrim.

GAA • 23 May 21

Ryan Murray had a topsy turvy afternoon at Haggardstown

Antrim record dramatic win over Louth

Antrim made the perfect start under new boss Enda McGinley as Ryan Murray snatched an injury-time winner in a 1-15 to 3-08 victory over Louth at Haggardstown on Saturday afternoon.

GAA • 15 May 21

The Dundalk native has served Louth as a player, manager and now its chairperson

Fitzpatrick spearheading big plans in the Wee County

Peter Fitzpatrick on the advent of a new dawn for Louth GAA, with Mickey Harte's arrival and a place to finally call home for the county's teams and supporters.

GAA • 09 May 21

Chris Shields of Dundalk scores from the penalty spot

Dundalk put three past luckless Waterford

The old guard came to the fore to help Dundalk to back to back league wins for the first time since February 2020 against Waterford at the RSC.

Soccer • 30 Apr 21

Niamh Rice celebrates scoring her side's second goal during the 2019 TG4 All-Ireland Junior final.

Louth's Rice puts down the mic and heads for the farm

Delivering new-born calves and mucking out barns is quite the distance from a rockstar lifestyle, but with her singing career on the back burner, Louth forward Niamh Rice is not afraid to get her hands dirty.

GAA • 20 Mar 21

Steve Williams has joined Mickey Harte's backroom team in Louth

Former Shels keeper Williams joins Louth backroom team

Former Shelbourne and Dundalk goalkeeper Steve Williams is to join Mickey Harte's backroom team at Louth as a goalkeeping coach.

GAA • 23 Dec 20

Louth players celebrate victory in the Lory Meagher Cup final

Mackin propels Louth to Lory Meagher Cup glory

Relentless Louth ground out Lory Meagher Cup success over Fermanagh, pulling away in the second half with an impressive eleven point margin, where Andrew Mackin's two goals after both water break restarts proved decisive.

GAA • 28 Nov 20

Harte will be over both the senior and Under-20 panels

Lennon: Harte makes Division 2 realistic goal for Louth

Former Louth footballer Shane Lennon feels Mickey Harte's appointment makes eventual promotion to Allianz League Division 2 a realistic prospect.

GAA • 24 Nov 20

Mickey Harte's first major task with Louth will be to gain promotion from Division 4

Fitzpatrick insists Harte can pump life into Wee County

Louth chairman Peter Fitzpatrick believes new boss Mickey Harte can restore the county's football fortunes after securing his services for the next three years.

GAA • 24 Nov 20

Kierans led Louth for two championship campaigns

Louth end Wayne Kierans' reign as football manager

Louth GAA have decided not to renew the contract of football manager Wayne Kierans after two seasons in charge.

GAA • 06 Nov 20

Darren Gallagher rounds Tommy Dunne in Longford's narrow win over Louth

Longford hold firm to edge out Louth in tight contest

Brave Longford overcame the horrendous conditions and the stiff challenge of Louth in Mullingar to secure their Leinster SFC quarter-final place.

Football • 01 Nov 20

Louth finish campaign on high with victory against Down

Louth showed the greater urgency against an experimental Down side to take a 3-14 to 0-16 win in this Allianz Football League Division 4 clash at Dowdallshill.

GAA • 25 Oct 20

Louth captain makes startling claim on testing

Louth football captain Bevan Duffy believes the GAA has failed inter-county players by returning to action as cases of Covid-19 increase, citing a lack of testing as one of his main concerns.

GAA • 19 Oct 20

Paul Kerrigan had a hand in some of Cork's goals against Louth, and got in on the act too

Cork promoted while Louth drop to Division 4

Cork secured their promotion from Division 3 of the Allianz NFL with a comprehensive victory over Louth this afternoon in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

GAA • 17 Oct 20

Karl Faulkner of Ardee St Mary's in action against Conor Whelan of Naomh Mairtin

Naomh Mairtin win first ever Louth senior title

Naomh Mairtin picked up their first ever Louth senior title at the expense of Ardee St.Mary's in the Louth Centre of Excellence in Darver.

GAA • 27 Sep 20

Peter Fitzpatrick is delighted that planning has been granted

Louth GAA rejoice as planning approved for stadium

Louth GAA chairman Peter Fitzpatrick says that full planning permission for a new 14,000-capacity ground is the best news the county has ever received.

GAA • 11 Sep 20

One of the pitches at Louth's centre of excellence in Darver

Louth GAA going 'week to week' in unpredictable times

Like many county boards around the country, Louth GAA have had to take drastic steps in the wake of the latest coronavirus restrictions.

GAA • 20 Aug 20

Michael McDonald made his Super League debut for the Waratahs last month. Picture credit: Twitter/@NSWWaratahs

Louth learnings standing McDonald in good stead

Michael McDonald's debut Super Rugby season has been interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the Louth native is adapting to a strange new world quickly.

Rugby • 25 Apr 20

O'Rourke masterful as Leitrim earn survival lifeline

Leitrim handed themselves an Allianz Football League lifeline by picking up their first win in Division 3 with an unexpectedly easy victory over Louth, who are all but relegated with two games left to play.

GAA • 01 Mar 20