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Players of the Carnbane, with Martin Fitzmaurice

Name: Martin  ‘Fitzy’ Fitzmaurice. Age: 32. Occupation: CCTV operator. Club: Midway United. Previous Club(s): Newry Celtic, Rockview United and Cleary Celtic. Honours: First and Second Division, Kennedy Cup and all local cups. Position: Left midfield at the minute. Favourite player: Steven Gerrard. Favourite drink: Carlsberg. What team do you support? Liverpool. What are your interests outside of football? Pool, […]

Newry City are the 2012 Mid-Ulster Cup Champions

Glenavon 0-1 Newry City Newry secured their first piece of silverware since 2007  with a deserved Mid Ulster Cup victory over Glenavon at a wintry Mourneview Park last night (7th March 2012). Manager Pat McGibbon made two changes to the team that had lined out against Ballymena on Saturday, with Stephen Hutchinson and Timmy Grant […]

Social networking has its place in the GAA, but not like this

In this day and age, with social media websites playing such an important part in people’s lives, should the GAA step in and restrict players from using these sites to publicly criticise the games and other issues within the association? Of course, Twitter has been used by many famous sport stars and celebrities to have […]

McCartan speaks out on Down’s relegation prospects

Down manager James McCartan has spoken about the Mourne County’s relegation prospects following their defeat to Kerry on Sunday. McCartan said, “We knew this was the end of the table we were most likely going to be looking at. We just want to get two more points on the board and it’ll probably take more than […]

Annagh 1 : 4 Newry City (Under 18’s)

Newry U18s continued their winning streak with a third successive victory, this coming against Annagh U18s on Saturday morning. Right from the start Newry set about their opponents with D’Arcy and Cunningham having early strikes on goal. It wasn’t long before the breakthrough came when a free kick from Hodgett sent the ball goal wards […]

Down and Armagh suffer National League defeats

Down and Armagh suffered similar fates this weekend as both lost at home by 6 point margins. The defeats mean that Down have only 2 points from 3 National League games, while Armagh’s unbeaten run comes to an end. Down welcomed Kerry to Newry for the first time in 19 years and both sides made […]

Woodside shock local rivals Bessbrook

Due to Newry City’s participation in the Irish cup on Saturday the Carnbane League committee decided to cancel all senior league games with the exception of Bessbrook United v Woodside.  A late decision was made to allow this game go ahead due to Bessbrook’s long backlog of league fixtures. Peter Markey was Bessbrook’s stand in […]

Down’s Ambrose Rogers fit to face Kingdom

Ambrose Rogers will return to the Down team tomorrow for an important Allianz National Football League encounter with the Kerry men in Pairc Esler, Newry. The influential midfielder missed Down’s defeat to Cork on the 12th of February and has yet to get back into full swing for the intercounty side since his injury in […]

Players of the Carnbane, with Danny Cinnamond

Name: Danny Cinnamond. Age: 21. Occupation: Student. Club: Rockview United. Previous Club(s): Derrybeg. Honours: Second Division League, Vincent Gilmore Cup. Position: Center half. Favourite player: John Terry. Favourite drink: Fanta Orange. What team do you support? Chelsea. What are your interests outside of football? Pool and Darts. How long have you been with your current […]

Newry City u16s, Meet the players: Gáelen Magill

Recently Newry Times caught up with Gáelen Magill. Gáelen is a regular for Newry u16s and also makes frequent appearances with the u18 team. Magill was signed to Newry by James Feehan, the Newry u16s manager and Academy Coach, after a spell with Glenavon FC and is now one of the upcoming talents the Newry […]







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